WTO chief calls for trade overhaul to meet new world order

The World Trade Organization (WTO) chief called on countries on Thursday to overhaul global trade rules, telling them the old world order had gone for good, following a year of turmoil sparked by US tariffs and wider geopolitical tensions. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala set out a list of problems facing the WTO - including the paralysis of its dispute-settlement mechanism - at the start of a four-day meeting of the body in Cameroon.