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GENEVA, Switzerland — A UN rights expert on Monday said there were "reasonable grounds" to determine that Israel has committed several acts of "genocide" in its war in Gaza, also warning of "ethnic cleansing".
This is a holiday-shortened three-day trading week; on the PSE, the scheduled events start (and end) today with the Alternergy [ALTER 0.76 unch] ownership group’s shares coming out of mandatory lockup. Approximately 50% of ALTER’s 3.9 billion common shares will become active and available for trading this morning. In international markets, there aren’t really any big events scheduled either. The parade of central banks announcing interest rate decisions will continue, but this is more of the B-tier and C-tier markets that don’t have a big impact on global sentiment, like Ghana (today), Hungary (tomorrow), and Nigeria (tomorrow). That said, we’ll hear from Sweden and South Africa on Wednesday. It’s not like last week when we had Japan, Australia, Indonesia, USA, Brazil, Taiwan, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK, and Mexico announce.
MANILA, Philippines — Five senators will go to the 148th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly next week in Geneva, Switzerland.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is the second happiest country in Southeast Asia, according to the annual World Happiness Report released by the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Center in the United Kingdom.?
GENEVA, Switzerland — Global temperatures "smashed" heat records last year, as heatwaves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record ice loss, the United Nations said Tuesday— warning 2024 was likely to be even hotter.
Looking into the rate of crypto adoption and the share of cryptocurrency owners in 56 countries as of February 2024, Nigeria and Turkey lead the pack, according to data from Statista.
Lise Pedersen Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel has unveiled its program for film professionals, VdR-Industry, which includes 29 projects in various stages of production. These will be pitched during the four-day event that runs April 14 through April 17, alongside the fest.
GENEVA, Switzerland — More children have been reported killed in the war raging in Gaza than in four years of conflict around the world, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday.