UAE rated among world’s top countries for human development
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Global trade to drop 5% this year: UN body
A $2 trillion, or 8%, slump in merchandise trade is the main reason. Services trade this year will increase by $500 billion, or about 7%, from a year ago, report finds
Dubai
‘People laughed when I suggested making Dubai a holiday destination – now UAE is 4th tourism spending destination in the world’: Sheikh Mohammed
Dubai ruler remembers facing laughter when he proposed transforming the UAE into a tourism destination
Abu Dhabi
Dubai hotels gear up for COP28 boom
Hotels in Dubai are already starting to see a large volume of bookings for COP28
climate change
Saudi Arabia to host major climate event
Saudi Arabia to host “Climate Week in the Middle East and North Africa” in Riyadh in October
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UN forecasts world economic growth of 2.3% in 2023, 2.5% in 2024
The UN forecasts are less than the IMF, which said earlier this year that global growth would fall to 2.9 percent in 2023 from 3.4 percent in 2022
nuclear
Trump to address UN on reform as world leaders gather for crisis talks
All eyes will be on Trump, whose ‘America First’ agenda has alarmed both allies and foes