Covid Far From Over, But Winter Can't Stop Arrival Of Spring: Xi Jinping

Calling for greater international cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said the pandemic is far from over despite initial progress made by the world in fighting COVID-19, but asserted that "winter cannot stop the arrival of spring".

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned global leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum Monday against starting a "new Cold War", and urged global unity in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.

The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced frightening income inequalities - and their consequent impact on access to education, healthcare and all hope of a better life - between the world's super-rich and the hundreds of millions of people who live and die in abject poverty, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the Davos summit in Switzerland.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese premier Xi Jinping will be among the top world leaders who will participate in the six-day online Davos Agenda Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF), beginning on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese premier Xi Jinping will be among the top world leaders who will participate in a five-day online Davos Agenda Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) later this month.

The World Economic Forum said Wednesday it would postpone the next Davos summit by several months because it would be unsafe to hold it early next year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

At the historic fiftieth World Economic Forum, economy and ecology have been placed at par together. May we all unite to shape a more conscious destiny for the planet.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said that his trip was sponsored by two of his friends and well-known businessmen Ikram Sehgal and Imran Chaudhry.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday said calls to the corporate elite meeting in Davos to immediately disinvest in fossil fuels had been ignored.

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros is delivering a speech in Davos, an annual event in which he addresses an array of global, political and technological issues.

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told teenage environmentalist Greta Thunberg on Thursday that she should study economics, a jibe that prompted the climate activist to say she does not need a degree to know the world was not meeting its climate targets.

Union minister Piyush Goyal had to face questions about India's citizenship law in Switzerland, where protests over the law have become a talking point. There has been concern at the World Economic Forum in Davos as India dropped 10 places in the Democracy Index 2019 - a slide that was attributed to, among other things, the protests over the citizenship law and the Na...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement was an unbalanced agreement, which was not fulfilling the guiding principles on which the pact was initiated, said India' Industry and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is optimistic of reaching a deal on a global tax on digital companies, despite an initial failure to agree one with the United States.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took on Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev in a tweet reacting to the spiritual leader's comments on the ongoing nationwide protests against the citizenship law.

India has dismissed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's call for global intervention to prevent a showdown between "two nuclear-armed countries", saying that the neighbouring nation's efforts would be better spent in taking verifiable action against terror groups on its territory than trying to "distract" the global community.

Popular YouTube comedian Bhuvan Bam, known for his viral BB Ki Vines videos, has invited to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Summit, where he had a chance to rub shoulders with the world’s elite.

Priyanka Chopra elaborated on the urgency of investing in people and said, "If countries invest in their people, you create populations that other people want to invest in."

Swiss police on Wednesday used water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas to subdue demonstrators in Zurich who ignited fireworks and threw bottles as part of a protest targeting the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) conference in Davos.