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Germany's federal government has reached the limit of its fiscal capacity, its finance minister said, with extra financing to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, the impact of the war in Ukraine…

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told senators on Tuesday that she expected inflation to remain high and the Biden administration would likely increase the 4.7% inflation forecast for this…

US President Joe Biden should not visit Saudi Arabia or meet its crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), who approved an operation to capture or kill murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi,…

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk told top managers he had a "super bad feeling" about the economy and that the electric carmaker needed to cut staff by about 10%, according to an internal email…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave her most direct admission yet that she made an incorrect call last year in predicting that elevated inflation wouldn’t pose a continuing problem.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denied speculation that President Vladimir Putin is ill.

In an interview with French TV, Lavrov said the Russian leader appears in public…

Japan will host a 2023 summit of the Group of Seven nations in Hiroshima, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday, believing the city -- devastated by the world's first atomic bomb attack -- is…

The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, has made it quite clear about her position on the value of cryptocurrency assets in a recent interview.

The governor of the Bank of England has warned there is "very real income shock" coming from energy prices and "apocalyptic" food prices but stood by the Bank's policy decisions.

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The World Bank approved a $150 million soft loan for food security in crisis-hit Lebanon to stabilize bread prices during the coming months, the economy minister said.

Amin Salam told…

The European Union has agreed on new digital regulations that will force tech giants like Google and Meta to police illegal content on their platforms more aggressively, or else risk potential…

Lebanon is close to reaching an agreement with the World Bank (WB) in which the international agency would give the crisis-hit country a $150 million loan for food security and to stabilize…

A planned hijab ban if French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is elected would come “little by little” and would be determined by lawmakers, her allies said of a move critics and allies…

Russia's economy cannot survive indefinitely on its financial reserves and will have to transform itself to deal with the impact of international sanctions, the central bank governor, Elvira…

Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are circulating at low levels in several countries within Southern Africa and Europe, according to the World Health Organization.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk took aim at Twitter Inc with a $43 billion cash takeover offer on Thursday, with the Tesla CEO saying the social media company needs to be taken private to…

Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci expects Covid-19 infections to rise again shortly, and that a surge in the fall is also likely.

Russia is facing its most difficult situation in three decades due to unprecedented western sanctions, but foreign attempts to isolate it from the global economy will fail, Prime Minister…

When she was elected as Hong Kong's first female chief executive in 2017, Carrie Lam pledged to work with the public to achieve "real consensus and gain the widest support from society."

 The recent rebound in equity markets will prove short-lived, one of Wall Street’s most vocal bears said on Monday, advising investors to seek refuge in bonds as economic…

The recent battle between Russian troops and Ukrainian civil defense forces within the confines of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant revealed just how close the world now is to a…

China announced a gross domestic product growth target of “around 5.5%” for 2022, as an annual parliamentary meeting gets underway.

Premier Li Keqiang revealed the figure in a speech…

As conflicting reports emerged about the fighting inside Ukraine with Russian forces meeting greater resistance, President Vladimir Putin ordered his military command to put nuclear-armed forces…

Some 41.1% of participants in pollster Metropoll’s February study on Turkey’s pulse said they approved of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s handling of the presidency.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping told top leaders to speed up work on new laws for the technology sector during a speech in early December, according to the Chinese Communist Party’s bimonthly…