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Financial Crisis

Sep 20, 2022

Lebanon aims to adopt long-delayed IMF reforms in October

Lebanon's caretaker economy minister says the crisis-hit country hopes to adopt key but long-delayed reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund for an economic bailout before the end of next month if there is “political will.”

Sep 18, 2022

UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools 'shameful'

The United Nations is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 through12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”

Talks to restructure Puerto Rico power company debt fail

Sep 17, 2022

Mediation talks to restructure more than $9 billion in debt held by Puerto Rico’s power company have failed, raising concerns about the future of the bankrupt government agency

Sep 16, 2022

Depositors storm 5 banks as Lebanon's cash crisis worsens

Lebanese depositors have stormed at least five banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling growing chaos amid the country's economic meltdown

Explosive detonates at Hezbollah-backed minister's home

Sep 8, 2022

A bomb has detonated outside of a Hezbollah-backed Lebanese minister's home in the eastern Bekaa valley

Sep 3, 2022

Thousands line up to say farewell to Gorbachev; Putin absent

Thousands of mourners lined up to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, in a farewell snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin

Sep 3, 2022

Sri Lanka's ousted president returns home after fleeing

Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has returned to the country after he fled in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country’s economic crisis

Sep 1, 2022

IMF agrees to provide crisis-hit Sri Lanka $2.9 billion

The International Monetary Fund says it has reached a preliminary agreement to provide $2.9 billion over four years to help crisis-hit Sri Lanka

UN warns 6 million Afghans at risk of famine as crises grow

Aug 30, 2022

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million people at risk of famine

Aug 20, 2022

Greece rid of budget watch but inflation, energy woes bite

Greece's close financial oversight by European Union creditors is ending