The International Monetary Fund is not expected to downgrade its forecast for 2.7% growth in 2023, the head of the global lender said on Thursday, noting that concerns about an oil price spike had…
For much of the global economy, 2023 is going to be a tough year as the main engines of global growth - the United States, Europe, and China - all experience weakening activity, the head of the…
Egypt on Thursday lifted a key restriction on imports and approved a list of economic activities the government would leave to the private sector, in an effort to meet two key conditions attached to…
Tunisia's powerful UGTT union will hold mass protests and "occupy the streets" soon to show its rejection of next year's austerity budget, the leader of the union said on Monday, in its strongest…
The International Monetary Fund will be watching for a shift by Egypt to a flexible exchange rate after a requirement to finance imports through letters of credit is phased out at the end of this…
The World Bank is ready to provide Lebanon with $300 to $500 million this year for social security and other projects relating to food and agriculture, the Lebanese cabinet tweeted on Tuesday, citing…
Egypt has finalized a staff-level agreement with the international monetary fund (IMF) on the components of its program, and will issue an announcement "very soon," the country's finance minister…
Africa's central banks are walking a tightrope trying to curb inflation that is mostly out of their control and causing "horrifying" food insecurity, the International Monetary Fund's Africa head…
No sooner did Washington greenlight Ukraine's use of long-range missiles than Russia announced it had signed a law allowing a nuclear strike in response to such an attack
As we bear witness to the endless livestream of death and destruction on our phones, it is important to call Israel's war on Gaza what it truly is: a genocide
The cost of this war already dwarfs those from 2006, yet it shows no signs of ending. Israel can absorb some losses; Lebanon cannot. If its people turn on each other, it will get a lot worse.
Christian Zionists have long prided themselves on their undeviating support for Israel, but a closer look exposes an allegiance rooted in white supremacy, antisemitism, and Islamaphobia
With dreamy vocals evoking images of hills and homeland, the star and her husband together wove a new and more romantic version of Lebanon in the years before the civil war that feels very distant now