Little more than two months from America’s presidential election, Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by five points in opinion polls, nationally and in...
China and the United States ratified the Paris agreement to cut climate-warming emissions on Saturday, marking a major step toward the enactment of the pact...
In many Western democracies, right-wing populists, energized by self-proclaimed victories over “establishment elites,” are doubling down on the claim that...
Air pollution takes years off people’s lives.
Nordic gender equality proved to be no myth in a poll published Tuesday, with nearly 90 percent of Finnish men willing to pick up the vacuum cleaner at home.
Migration continues to dominate political debate in many countries.
Switzerland’s private bankers fear cash-strapped Latin American countries pursuing billions of dollars in unpaid taxes will push the region’s wealthy to pull...
This week, Hillary Clinton will address the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to accept her party’s presidential nomination and present its...
This week, the U.N. celebrated the World Youth Skills Day in the event “Developing Skills to improve you
As the world reels from the Brexit shock, it is dawning on economists and policymakers that they severely underestimated the political fragility of the...
After the euphoria sparked a few years ago, the prospects for oil and gas discoveries offshore Lebanon and the measures needed to launch exploration and...
A huge overhang in oil stocks lingering across the world will keep a cap on any further oil price rises, the IEA said Tuesday, even as supply and demand move...
Switzerland promised Monday to work with Indian authorities to tackle tax dodgers who stash money in Swiss bank accounts to avoid Indian taxes.
If the Palestine issue is a political football that others in the Arab world, Israel and further afield use mainly to benefit themselves, then we witness...
The global economy is slipping into a self-fulfilling “low-growth trap” where ultra-loose monetary policy risks doing more harm than good, the Organization...
It is almost universally agreed that more education is good for society. But it turns out that some popular educational policies achieve very little, while...
In the last couple of years, transparency and information sharing among the world’s financial systems have become a prime focus.
Lebanon’s Central Bank will funnel more stimulus to key sectors to prop up the country’s economy, Riad Salameh said Thursday.
Lebanon and 100 other countries are signing an agreement to share financial information to tackle tax evasion, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...
Tens of thousands of South Koreans took part in Sunday's May Day protests to criticize labor reforms pushed by the government and to call for a higher minimum...