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Climate-labelled funds may not be as green as they seem. According to a study, one in every seven funds branded as sustainable has higher-than-average emissions intensity.

The United Nations on Monday warned that the Federal Reserve could drag the global economy into a recession with its rate-hike campaign design to crush inflation.

The Senate ratified a United Nations climate treaty Wednesday, binding the U.S. to an agreement to phase out the use of a key chemical found in home appliances.

Snap, Inc. is reportedly planning to lay off 20% of its 6,400-plus employees starting Wednesday after warning earlier this year that it would slow hiring.

Inflation is hitting the U.S. at a level unseen in decades, and both cities and small towns are feeling it.

Disney says it's "dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety" of members of the LGBTQ community, but it still does business in multiple countries that discriminate against LGBTQ people.

A senior Chinese government official said on Saturday that sanctions imposed by Western nations on Russia over Ukraine are increasingly "outrageous".

The United Nations chief, Antonio Guterres, warned Monday that Russia’s war on Ukraine is holding “a sword of Damocles” over the global economy, especially poor developing countries that face skyrocketing food, fuel, and fertilizer prices and are now seeing their breadbasket “being bombed.”

Swiss voters reject taxpayer-funded media.

Procter & Gamble (P&G), an official sponsor of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, is staying mum on the country's genocide of Uyghur Muslims despite being vocal on human rights issues in the U.S.

Olympic athletes' self-censorship of their criticism of the Chinese government does not stop when they leave the country because they rely on lucrative corporate sponsorship deals with companies that stand to lose money if they criticize the Chinese Communist Party, multiple human rights experts say.

Corporate sponsors pour hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise during the Winter Olympics in Beijing, but vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has argued this equates to "sponsoring" genocide.

WHO officials say over 1 billion vaccine doses have been delivered to countries in need, but work remains.

A dust-up over the reboot of HBO’s "Sex and the City" capped a tumultuous year for Peloton Interactive Inc., which saw its market value tumble as the company’s leaders struggled to gauge demand for its web-connected bikes.

A company backed by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group announced a merger with sustainable-consumer-products seller Grove Collaborative Inc. to take it public in a deal valued at $1.5 billion.

Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter-century, according to a review of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 firms located around the world.

The first diplomatic infections of COVID-19 are being reported after foreign dignitaries from around the world attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York.