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Georgians protest anti-NGO bill as ruling party vo...
Hundreds of young Georgians crowded outside parliament on Monday ahead of a third straight night of protests against a "foreign in...
IMF gives draft approval to Argentina payout of al...
IMF staff have reached an agreement with Argentina on a loan program review that should unlock almost $800 million in much-needed...
US Fed vice chair says interest rates should remai...
The US central bank should keep interest rates at their current "restrictive" levels until it sees real progress in the fight to l...
Anglo American rejects BHP's improved takeover bid
Australian mining giant BHP revealed Monday that British rival Anglo American has rejected an "improved" takeover bid worth £34 bi...
Bid to end deadly cooking methods which stoke glob...
Fifty countries are meeting in France on Tuesday to discuss the lack of access to clean cooking methods worldwide which causes mil...
European stocks waver after record run
European equities wavered Monday as dealers paused with key US inflation data on the horizon, having smashed records last week on...
France announces 'record' foreign investments wort...
France has received combined investment commitments from foreign companies of more than 15 billion euros ($16.2 billion), Presiden...
Maldives gets IMF debt warning as more Chinese loa...
The International Monetary Fund warned the Maldives against looming "debt distress" Monday, as the small but strategically placed...
US, Japanese banks lead fossil fuel financing
The world's biggest banks financed fossil fuels to the tune of $705 billion in 2023, with US and Japanese lenders leading the way,...
China says to sell initial batch of long-dated bon...
China will start selling an initial batch of long-dated bonds this week, the Ministry of Finance announced Monday, as Beijing look...
Sweden's small game studios punching above their w...
"Minecraft", "Valheim", and "Raft", just to name a few: Small or even one-man teams from Sweden have produced more video game hits...
Asian markets mixed as traders pause ahead of US i...
Equities fluctuated Monday as traders took a breather after the past weeks' healthy run as they absorbed weak Chinese data and rep...
Cambodia's famed Kampot pepper withers in scorchin...
Farmer Chhim Laem shakes his head as he walks between long rows of dead bushes, their brown leaves scorched by heat and drought th...
Mercedes workers in Alabama to vote whether to joi...
The US auto workers union's drive to organize auto plants in the southern United States faces a second test this week at Mercedes-...
Latest 'Planet of Apes' episode swings to top of N...
Twentieth Century's action sci-fi film "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" climbed to the top of the North American box office in...
Amazon plans to invest 1.2 bn euros in France: Mac...
US e-commerce giant Amazon will invest more than 1.2 billion euros in France, creating more than 3,000 jobs, French President Emma...
Boeing's problems rattle US aviation regulator as...
The US Federal Aviation Administration, sharply criticized after the crashes of two Boeing planes in 2018 and 2019, is again being...
Nemo's hometown celebrates Eurovision win for Swit...
Nemo fans partied in the streets of Biel after their hometown hero won the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland on Sunday.
Finding Nemo: Eurovision winner's journey of self-...
Nemo, who won the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, has encapsulated the journey towards realising non-binary gender identit...
Switzerland's Nemo wins Eurovision Song Contest
Switzerland's Nemo won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, becoming the first artist identifying as non-binary to claim victo...
Hundreds protest outside German Tesla factory
More than a thousand environmentalists protested outside Tesla's factory near Berlin Saturday, police said, a day after some of th...
Iraq hopes oil reserves will exceed 160 bn barrels...
Iraq, one of the world's biggest oil producers, aims to boost its crude reserves to more than 160 billion barrels, Oil Minister Ha...
China consumer prices rise at faster rate in April
China's inflation rate quickened last month, official data showed Saturday, as the government works to boost spending in the world...
For some residents of Mexico's Cancun, beach seems...
The sun-kissed beaches and turquoise waters of Mexico's Caribbean resort of Cancun attract millions of visitors, but schoolteacher...
Senior US Fed official expects no rate cuts this y...
A senior official at the US central bank said Friday that she doesn't expect any interest rate cuts this year following a recent u...
Brazil floods strike blow to powerful agriculture...
Floodwaters in Brazil have swallowed up soybean fields and farming equipment, cutting off roads, livestock farms and warehouses in...
Xi's European tour: red carpets, but 'no breakthro...
As Chinese President Xi Jinping wraps up his European tour with his stop in Budapest, analysts say the Chinese leader made an impr...
UK economy exits recession in pre-vote boost for P...
Britain has emerged from a short-lived recession with better-than-expected growth in the first quarter, official data showed Frida...
UK's Labour vows to ditch government's Rwanda depo...
Britain's main opposition Labour party on Friday pledged to scrap the Conservative government's flagship Rwanda scheme if it comes...
London, Frankfurt hit records as rate hopes boost...
Growing hopes that the US Federal Reserve and other central banks are close to cutting interest rates helped push London and Frank...
Honda posts record profit, issues cautious forecas...
Japanese auto giant Honda on Friday logged a record annual profit thanks to improving global vehicle sales, but issued a cautious...
UK economy exits recession ahead of election
Britain exited a shallow recession with better-than-expected growth in the first quarter, official data showed Friday, in a boost...