International

After years of shock and awe Bank of Japan is quietly rolling back radical policies introduced by its bold chief Haruhiko Kuroda Pioneering and pioneering controversial new measures that blur…

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi will meet Iran’s president on Sunday in Tehran to discuss issues including energy and Iran-Saudi relations, an Iraqi government source said. The visit…

Moscow expects that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s leaders will decide on the start of Tehran’s admission to the organization at the Dushanbe summit on September 16-17, Special Envoy of…

China and Iran should strengthen communication and coordination and play a constructive role in achieving a smooth transition of the situation in Afghanistan, a neighbor to both countries,…

Chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) Soumya Swaminathan has called for an evidence-based global scientific effort to understand Covid-19 origins, a Singaporean media outlet…

The International Monetary Fund said its new allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) equivalent to $650 billion, the largest in the IMF's history, comes into effect, in an effort to help…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for support in rescuing local Afghan forces after the Taliban takeover.

The remarks came during Merkel's trip…

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Saturday that the state seeks to restructure the process of providing subsidies for Egyptians not eliminate the subsidies for various commodities,…

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will press Group of 20 (G20) counterparts this week for a global minimum corporate tax rate above the 15 percent floor to which 130 countries agreed…

The World Bank raised its forecast of China’s economic growth this year to 8.5% from 8.1% and said Tuesday that a full recovery requires progress in vaccinations against the coronavirus.

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of the largest US bank, said Thursday that he has personal concerns with cryptocurrency, but will not steer JPMorgan Chase (JPM) away from offering crypto-related financial…

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Sunday said there was a risk of "long-lasting apartheid" in Israel if the Palestinians were denied their own state.

Le Drian is one of the…

Myanmar's deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi completed a third month under military-ordered house arrest on Saturday – a period marked by scatter-gun criminal charges and apparent…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party was in crisis mode on Monday after suffering heavy losses in two regional polls, seen as a rebuke of its pandemic management six months…

China stands a good chance of doubling the size of its economy by 2035 and surpassing the US as the world’s largest economy along the way, said an economist from the Bank of America.

Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella has asked former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi to form a non-political government to steer Italy through the coronavirus pandemic after last-ditch…

Silicon Valley tech firms look increasingly likely to face new global tax laws this year, as the change in the White House fuels optimism among European officials that an agreement will soon be…

EU leaders on Thursday "strongly discouraged" Europeans from non-essential travel and warned tougher restrictions on trips could come within days if efforts to curb the coronavirus fell short.…

Shares of groups related to South Korean-conglomerate Samsung Group plunged on Monday after Samsung heir Jay Y Lee was sentenced to two and a half years in jail by a South Korean court on Monday…

Britain’s long and sometimes acrimonious divorce from the European Union ended on Thursday with an economic split that leaves the EU smaller and the UK freer but more isolated in a turbulent…

Bitcoin is on track for its longest monthly winning streak in more than a year after touching a record of more than $28,000 over the weekend. The largest cryptocurrency reached an all-time high…

Britain clinched a narrow Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, just seven days before it exits one of the world’s biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift…

The European Central Bank made a stark admission last week as it announced a fresh round of policy measures; even three years from now, it’ll still be well short of its inflation goal of just…

Cuba will end its decades-old dual currency system and have a single unified exchange rate of 24 pesos per dollar from January, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said.

The renewed outbreak of Covid-19 infections in some parts of the world has dampened the global economic outlook in the short run, said Philippine Central Bank Governor Benjamin Diokno.