Summit News
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Recriminations after COP29 agrees deal on $300bn for poorer nations
Richer countries have pledged a record $300bn (£238bn) to help the developing world fight climate change, but the deal is...
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Web Summit kicks off in Lisbon as tech leaders weigh Trump’s return
Lisbon will this week play host to Europe’s biggest annual tech conference, Web Summit, where industry leaders and lawmakers will...
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Airlines eye 'new frontier' of AI ahead of global summit
Airlines may not replace pilots with artificial intelligence anytime soon, but aviation industry experts say the new technology is already...
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China's Li Qiang lands in Seoul for trilateral summit with South Korea, Japan
Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Seoul on Sunday (May 26) for a trilateral summit with his South Korean and...
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North Korea fires ballistic missiles as Blinken visits Seoul for democracy summit
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Monday (Mar 18), in what analysts said was a calculated move to...
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Cairo peace summit grapples with Gaza war
Egypt opens a summit on the Gaza crisis on Saturday to try to head off a wider regional war but...
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Nepal urged to tighten climbing rules to cut Everest deaths
Weak climbers being led up Mount Everest by expedition operators with insufficient experience are causing problems, a veteran mountain guide...
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Security talks with US ‘difficult’ but ‘concrete’, says Russian deputy MFA Ryabkov
Senior US and Russian officials launched the critical talks on rising tensions on Monday as part of their “Strategic Security...
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Ewec expands remit of co-ordinating water and electricity production operations
Emirates Waste and Electricity Company said it significantly expanded its remit for co-ordinating water and electricity production operations in Abu...
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Seagate Demonstrates HDD with PCIe NVMe Interface
Seagate has demonstrated the industry's first hard disk drive connected to a host using a PCIe interface at the Open...
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Toyota defends skipping COP26 emissions pledge
Toyota Motor Corp on Wednesday defended a decision not to sign an emissions pledge proposed during the COP26 climate talks,...
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Thirty-year-old train fuelled by hydrogen shows Cop26 the future of transport
At more than 160 kilometres per hour, the Scottish hedges are blur of green with occasional glimpse of cows munching...
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'Monument' Merkel gets standing ovation at her last EU summit
European leaders heaped praise on German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday as she participated in her last European Union summit...
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Frustrated Balkans seek reassurance at EU summit
Western Balkan countries can expect reassurances but no concrete progress on their stalled bids for European Union membership when EU...
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Biden says can stand with European allies ahead of Putin summit
AMERICA will stand using its European allies against Russia, President Joe Biden has promised prior to the first face-to-face ending...
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Summit secures $2.4bn for vaccine for poor countries
A large number of countries on Wednesday pledged nearly $2.4 billion to the COVAX vaccine-sharing plan to widen option of...