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IMF is wary of governments piling up unsustainable levels of debt
The global financial institution has acknowledged difficulties in assessing the problem among developing nations.
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The global financial institution has acknowledged difficulties in assessing the problem among developing nations.
Despite the exclusivity of Davos, WEF will focus on climate, inequality and international cooperation and inclusiveness.
The Trump administration's broadsides against international cooperation embolden nations with poor human rights records and encourage attacks on journalists, experts said.
Corruption has wide-ranging impacts. Transparency International says ordinary people can fight back.
Instagram is the fastest-growing social media network among leaders, organizations and governments and the third most popular for global diplomacy after Twitter and Facebook.
As 200 nations gathered for climate talks, international health experts reported the slow pace of reducing greenhouse gas emissions puts lives and health care systems at risk.
The Group of 20's final communiqué expressed concern about the future direction of the World Trade Organization, which U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to leave.
The Financial Stability Board monitors and recommends ways of strengthening the world's financial architecture.
Justices are deciding if the World Bank's financial lending arm has the same immunity as nations, which could alter the amount of protection — and independence from courts — that staff are given at organizations operating under U.S. laws.
Even in a country with a tradition of hosting international organizations, one-third of all voters preferred to put the promise of "Swiss law first" ahead of global cooperation.
The world's largest international police organization, which was expected to elevate a senior Russian security official to the top job, shifted gears after politicians and activists protested.
Precipitated by unrestrained nationalism, the immense tragedy of a four-year global war laid the groundwork for the post-World War II era of relative concordance among nations.
A routine examination by the U.N. Human Rights Council looked at Chinese crackdowns on Uyghurs and Tibetans.
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi overshadowed the U.N. examination of Saudi Arabia's troubled human rights record, with nations calling for a proper investigation into his killing.
Protesters urged more attention to global weapons sales in the wake of a journalist's murder in a Saudi consulate at Istanbul.
The ONE Campaign says at least 669 million people worldwide would have needlessly died between 1990 and 2016.