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Austria Environment Global

International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum 2023: The Road to COP28

The International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum 2023 (IVECF) took place at the Hofburg palace on 2 and 3 November 2023. The Forum featured high…

iGlobenewsNovember 13, 2023

Global Security

New Tools for New Challenges: Diplomacy in the 21st Century

Covid, global warming, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, waves of migration and internally displaced persons are shaping the world we live in. Professor…

iGlobenewsNovember 3, 2023

Global MENA Politics

BRICS+ Recent Expansion Increases Middle East Influence

The BRICS expansion could reshape world politics. Four key countries from the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the…

iGlobenewsOctober 31, 2023

Economics/Finance EU/Europe Global

The Cum-Ex Scandal and Olaf Scholz’ Involvement

In 2018, a scandal of epic proportions sent shockwaves through the European financial landscape. A sophisticated tax evasion scheme exposed the dark underbelly of the…

iGlobenewsOctober 19, 2023

Economics/Finance Global USA & Canada

Can BRICS Countries Challenge US Dollar Hegemony?

Throughout history, international monetary systems have evolved every few decades, from the gold standard to the Bretton Woods system and eventually to the current free-floating…

iGlobenewsSeptember 19, 2023

Environment Global

Drowning in Plastic

The plastic pollution crisis has reached unprecedented levels: plastic shopping bags, plastic packaging, plastic water bottles, etc. About 80% of all the plastic ever produced…

iGlobenewsAugust 11, 2023

Africa Global

Child labor: The dark side of sweet chocolate

Global supply chains featuring commodity ingredients and foods are often opaque, tangled and secretive. Huge multi-national food companies often have well-crafted human rights policies listed…

iGlobenewsJune 30, 2023

Global MENA Science/Technology

Egypt’s ‘Digital Suez Canal’

Egypt is the most important bottleneck for global internet communication. Data travels across the ocean floor to Europe and beyond via underwater sea cables linking…

iGlobenewsJune 15, 2023

Global Science/Technology

“ChaosGPT” might Destroy Humanity while Regulators look on

On 5 April 2023, the world awoke to a YouTube video, posted by a user calling themselves ChaosGPT. The chatbot, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has…

iGlobenewsJune 2, 2023

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