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The rapid spread of Omicron in more than 100 countries along with rising global inflation rates, energy crisis stemmed out of coal shortages, political tensions and slowdown in manufacturing output amid chips shortage remain the major downside risks to global growth in 2022.

The Royal Opera House in Muscat will pay tribute to Zeffirelli by opening its tenth season on January 20 with the world premiere of the last masterpiece the great director had worked on: Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto with the unpublished sets of the late Florentine director and set designer....

The curtain rises on the 2022 scenarios with the trends of travelers who, still living with the concerns about COVID, will book more and more last-minute, preferring proximity and sustainable destinations. This is what transpires from the analysis carried out by Mabrian Technologies, a company specializing in the monitoring of tourism big data, which, albeit in a climate of persistent uncertainty, has outlined the trends in the post-pandemic era.

It’s clear that the most important development from COP was the launch of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net-Zero (GFANZ), representing 450 organisations with some USD130 trillion of assets under management. 40% of global assets are now committed to the transition. For a sense of scale, global GDP last year was USD85 trillion.

Simple, predictable and practical measures needed to safely and efficiently facilitate the ramping-up of international travel as borders re-open.

Our planet is on the cusp of irreparable environmental devastation. Environmentalists and agencies such as the International Energy Agency have been advocating for years that switching to renewable energy is the only way to peaceful and healthy survival.

The ideological and political differences between China and the U.S. continue to grow, but the world's two largest economies remain inextricably linked.

On 1 July 2021, the OECD announced that an agreement had been reached between 130 countries, including the G20, on a new global minimum corporation tax regime. Prompted by “the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy”, in other words the desire to share in the eye-watering profits of ‘big-tech’ where those profits are earned, the new international deal will have a far-reaching impact on multi-nationals beyond the technology...