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Environment

Global carbon emissions rebound to near pre-pandemic levels

The study projected total global emissions this year to reach 36.4 billion tons of CO2

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USA

US to galvanize global 'ambition' on climate: officials

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 1, 2021. Photo :Reuters
Environment

Global climate talks open to cries of betrayal, blame

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan September 6, 2021. Photo :Reuters
South Asia

Taliban says failure to recognise their government could have global effects

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens as Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, speaks during a press briefing at the OECD's Ministerial Council Meeting, in Paris, France October 6, 2021. Photo :Reuters
Global Economy

Nations agree to 15% minimum corporate tax rate

A liquified natural gas (LNG) tanker leaves the dock after discharge at PetroChina's receiving terminal in Dalian, Liaoning province, China July 16, 2018. Photo: Reuters
Global Economy

Explainer: What's behind the wild surges in global LNG prices and the risks ahead

Posters offering special discount on Black Friday sales are seen in front of a United Colors of Benetton kid's fashion store, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continues, in Zurich, Switzerland November 27, 2020. Photo: Reuters
Global Economy

How global supply chains are falling out of fashion

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Coronavirus chronicle

Global Covid cases top 232 million

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Coronavirus chronicle

Global Covid cases top 230 million

An employee works at a packaging line for chicken vaccine at Ringpu Biotech in Tianjin, China, September 8, 2021. Photo: Reuters
China

China's high-tech push seeks to reassert global factory dominance

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Coronavirus chronicle

Global Covid cases top 226 million

A man who had previously been inoculated against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) with Sinovac's Coronavac vaccine, gets a third dose of a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, in the Hospital de Clinicas, in Montevideo, Uruguay August 16, 2021. Photo : Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Global Covid cases top 212 million

A daily wage labourer stands in a queue for free food at a construction site where activity has been halted due to 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in New Delhi, India, April 10, 2020. Photo :Reuters
Global Economy

Pandemic threatens Asia-Pacific's progress on global development goals, says ADB