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US pushing G20 for global minimum corporate tax: Yellen
Just days after President Joe Biden announced plans to raise corporate taxes to finance a massive $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs program, Yellen said a...
The Climate Transparency International Report provides an annual review of climate change and mitigating action by G20 countries and gives an update on their transition to a net-zero emissions economy.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman said that the "spirit of cooperation" was needed now "more than ever to face the impact of the pandemic.
The antibody therapy approval in the United States offers some hope for those infected, though a relatively small number of doses will be available in the coming weeks.
The initiative will now be extended until the end of June next year, G20 finance ministers and central bankers said after a virtual meeting hosted by the group's current president Saudi Arabia.
The Washington-based crisis lender late last month downgraded its growth forecasts, and now expects global GDP to fall by 4.9% this year due to the deeper contraction during lockdowns.
Regional and international organisations from the European Union to the United Nations have not managed to muster a coordinated response to the pandemic, while even economic organisations like OPEC have failed to halt the slide on markets.
The G20 statement was silent on US President Donald Trump's decision last week to cut off Washington's bilateral funding to the World Health Organisation.
Leaders from the G20 most industrialised nations held crisis talks by video link Thursday, pledging a 'united front' to fight the outbreak - along with an enormous financial injection to prop up the economy.
Vladimir Putin, under pressure himself after his security forces seized three Ukrainian ships, set the tone by condemning the 'vicious' use of sanctions and trade protectionism.
Macron made no direct mention of the "yellow vests," the growing movement in France of protesters who have dressed in the quickly recognisable jackets of emergency workers.
After having promised during his 2016 electoral campaign to mend ties with Russia, the US president faced several global disputes that made a thaw difficult.
The weekend summit is confronted with increasingly dire warnings, by the International Monetary Fund among others, of the potential harm faced by the world economy from Trump's trade wars.
The Buenos Aires meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the world’s 20 biggest economies was meant to discuss a brightening economic outlook, among other things.
Germany's Angela Merkel treated the leaders to a concert at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie on Friday night, where they listened to Beethoven.
By 2020, it will cost Germany $107 million a year to look after the migrants it’s taken in.
Donald Trump faces a testy confrontation with leaders of the other big G20 economies for pulling the US out of Paris climate deal.
Donald Trump's relationship with both China & Germany is pushing the 2 countries closer together, despite Berlin's concerns about human rights in China.
The Group of 20 leading economies are meeting in Hamburg later this week.