
VENEZUELA is calling for a comprehensive restructuring of international debt in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Addressing the UN heads of state meeting on international debt, President Nicolas Maduro said that more than 130 million people had been plunged into poverty during the pandemic.
A “profound revision of debt conditions” was needed to prevent them being used as “a weapon for control, blackmail or domination,” he stressed.

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers