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September 11, 2021 23:45
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August 29,2021Chief 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... -
August 24,2021The 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...
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August 21,2021German 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 to Moscow...
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August 14,2021Egypt'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, which...
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July 09,2021United 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...
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June 30,2021The 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.
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May 29,2021Jamie 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...
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May 25,2021French 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.
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May 02,2021Myanmar'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 isolation...
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March 16,2021German 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 before a...
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February 27,2021China 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.
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February 03,2021Italy’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...
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January 29,2021Silicon 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...
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January 22,2021EU 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.
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January 19,2021Shares 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...
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January 01,2021Britain’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 world.
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December 29,2020Bitcoin 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.
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December 25,2020Britain 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 since...
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December 15,2020The 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 under...
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December 12,2020Cuba 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.
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December 09,2020The 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.
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December 06,2020The European Central Bank is set to unleash more stimulus for the eurozone at its last meeting of the year on Thursday, as the region's battered economy grapples with a second wave of Covid-19.
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December 05,2020India's economy is projected to shrink 7.5% in the current fiscal year through March, its central bank governor said on Friday, upwardly revising an October forecast for a 9.5% contraction.
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December 02,2020The UN said on Tuesday $35 billion would be needed for aid in 2021, as the pandemic leaves tens of millions more people in crisis, and with the risk of multiple famines looming.
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November 30,2020The coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Olympics could cost $1.9 billion more than its original budget of $13 billion, marking a 15% increase, a report said on Sunday.
