gathering
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The WTO is holding its ministerial conference, its biennial main gathering, in late March in Cameroon.
From Barron's
Military top brass, political elites and ordinary party members will crowd Pyongyang for the twice-a-decade gathering, with supreme leader Kim Jong Un taking centre stage.
From Barron's
Africa's heads of state are gathering in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, for their annual meeting this weekend at a time when the continent's place in the world appears to be in flux.
From BBC
For decades after the end of the Cold War, the World Economic Forum served as the pre-eminent annual gathering of global business and political elites.
Now, with a race for rare earths gathering pace across the globe, the institution is grappling with the question of whether it should share them with the mining sector.
From Barron's
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