America’s political allies may be fretting about headwinds from the new U.S. administration, but for the U.S. financial types here at Davos the news just keeps getting better.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world’s thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster” that spares no one, while calling for greater attention to risks posed by artificial intelligence if its ascent goes ungoverned — even as some leaders played up its

Even when Donald Trump wasn't in the room or even the main theme, the US president kept coming up again Wednesday at the gabfest of global elites in the Swiss resort of Davos.

Officials and business executives at the annual gathering in Switzerland said the fight against global climate change would continue with or without the United States.

His second term heralds the demise of the pro-trade internationalist ethos that the WEF has long revered. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Takeshi Niinami, who also heads one of Japan's biggest business lobbies, said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos meeting that it is important for firms to show that their investments will create jobs in the U.S..

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday at noon local time (10:30 IST) at a ceremony held inside the Rotunda of the US Capitol.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani said on Wednesday that the country will open its economy to foreign investment and that Damascus is also working on energy and electricity partnerships with Gulf states.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, industry leaders debated Bitcoin’s role as a reserve asset, the memecoin frenzy and crypto’s future amid Trump’s return to the Oval Office.

As business titans and world leaders gathered Monday in Davos, Switzerland, for the opening of the annual World Economic Forum, all eyes were on President Donald Trump ’s taking power again in Washington.

Ukrainian president calls on European politicians to “be more than just bystanders” who are “reduced to posting on X after an agreement has already been made.”