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A parliamentary investigation into the collapse of Credit Suisse will keep its files closed for 50 years, newspaper Aargauer Zeitung reported, triggering concerns among Swiss historians.

Australia's central bank says it will be led by a woman for the first time since it was founded in 1960. Michele Bullock will succeed Philip Lowe, who is coming to the end of a seven-year term…

Crypto’s “inherent structural flaws” make it unsuitable as a monetary tool, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a report sent to finance ministers of the world’s twenty largest…

The global economy has begun to improve, but the recovery will be weak, said the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its latest Economic Outlook.

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the Israeli military’s excessive use of force in its largest operation in two decades against the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank…

Pope Francis said the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, has made him angry and disgusted and that he condemned and rejected permitting the act as a form of freedom of speech.

Violence in the occupied West Bank “risks spiraling out of control”, according to the United Nations human rights chief who condemned Israel’s use of deadly force in a raid in the Jenin refugee…

Turkey is looking to increase its exports to $265 billion by the end of 2023 "despite the negative global economic outlook," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

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Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has confirmed he is joining the Daily Mail as a columnist but could already be in hot water with parliamentary authorities over the job.

World Bank President Ajay Banga wants the lender to focus on more "scalable, replicable" projects across Latin America and elsewhere for transport and infrastructure and digitization of…

Billionaire George Soros confirmed that he is handing control of his $25 billion empire to his son Alex.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed a former Wall Street banker Hafize Gaye Erkan as the country’s new central bank governor — another move that could potentially mark a policy…

The global economy must steer through a precarious recovery this year and next as inflation keeps dragging on household spending and higher interest rates weigh on growth, banks and markets.

Today (Thursday, June 1) the five foreign ministers of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are meeting in Cape Town. On the second day of their meet they will be joined by 15…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he has forced his son to resign as his executive policy secretary after his son used the prime minister's residence for a private party, prompting…

Preliminary, unofficial results from Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency showed incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead with 49% of ballot boxes counted, while a competing news agency…

The World Bank has approved a $300 million additional funding to the Emergency Crisis and COVID Response Social Safety Net Project (ESNN) that aids poor Lebanese families.

The government in Japan is considering issuing bridge bonds as early as fiscal 2024 to make up for an expected shortfall in funding to boost child-rearing support, a key policy goal of Prime…

Former Polish president Lech Walesa says his retirement income is not quite enough to make ends meet, though it’s four times the national average. He once led the Solidarity trade union in its…

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has told Al Jazeera he does not “have a problem” with the country’s army chief but accused Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir of trying to…

World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala urged diversification in global supply chains, amid ongoing efforts to progress the body’s reform.

After more than a year of warnings, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says the UK is now experiencing a wage-price spiral despite 12 consecutive central bank interest rate hikes.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a prison sentence for corruption. However, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag…

Austin Russell, a 28-year-old automotive tech billionaire, will buy a majority stake in Forbes Global Media Holdings from its current owner, Hong Kong-based Integrated Whale Media Investments (…

UK Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt signaled the nation’s inflation remains too high, a day after the Bank of England agreed its 12th consecutive interest rate hike in a bid to combat stubbornly…