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Central Bank of Egypt's headquarters is seen in downtown Cairo, Egypt, June 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Egypt's Currency Slides as IMF Deal Triggers New FX Regime

Egypt's pound slid 13.5% to a record low against the dollar on Thursday as authorities announced a $3 billion International Monetary Fund deal with a commitment to a "durably flexible exchange rate…

27 October 2022
A street trader arranges fresh vegetables and fruit on a street in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Rogan Ward

Global Inflation Causing 'Horrifying' Food Insecurity, Says IMF Africa Head

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…

14 October 2022
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Protesters Outside IMF, World Bank Meeting Venues Demand Urgent Climate Action

Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington D.C. on Thursday, expressing opposition to funding of fossil fuels…

13 October 2022
The International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, speaks at a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 3, 2022. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

Global Recession Can Be Avoided With Right Fiscal Policies -IMF's Georgieva

Global recession can be avoided if governments' fiscal policies were consistent with monetary policy tightening, but likely there would be countries falling into recession next year, the…

03 October 2022
A customer stands in front of empty shelves for some coffee products inside a supermarket in Tunis, Tunisia September 3, 2022. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui/File Photo

Tunisian Labour Union Warns of Strikes As IMF Talks Loom

Tunisia's powerful UGTT labor union has no deal with the government on reforming subsidies and publicly owned companies and will lead street protests over any "painful" changes, it said on Monday,…

03 October 2022
Lebanese caretaker Minister of Economy and Trade Amin Salam speaks during a press conference after his meeting with a delegation from the International Monetary Fund, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Salam said crisis-hit Lebanon hopes to adopt key reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund for a bailout including banking restructuring and banking secrecy laws before the end of next month if there is "political will." (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon Aims To Adopt Long-Delayed IMF Reforms in October

Crisis-hit Lebanon hopes to adopt key reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund for a long-delayed but urgently needed bailout before the end of next month if there is “political will”,…

AP 20 September 2022
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Ahmed Sharaa on Syria's 'zero-problems' strategy

26 August 2025

Syria's president says the Abraham Accords aren't the right fit for Damascus. Instead, he hopes to reinstate the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel or something similar

Ibrahim Hamidi
People mourn for Palestinian journalists Moaz Abu Taha and Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, who were killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in Gaza on August 25, 2025, along with 15 others. AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

'Genocide didn't unfold in Gaza; it was the intent all along'

25 August 2025

A new book by Lebanese jurist Mazen Shindab provides an invaluable legal resource on the genocide in Gaza, laying bare the flaws of international law and the moral imperative to hold Israel to account

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, his Japanese counterpart Kazuo Ueda, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, at Jackson Hole in Moran on August 22, 2025. AFP
Business & Economy

Jackson Hole gave hints of the future, but not of certainty

26 August 2025

Top global monetary policy makers grapple with political pressure and fragile labour markets while investors bet on lower borrowing costs, with the next five weeks key for a range of assets

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
Sara Padovan
Politics

Are land grabs becoming the norm in today's world?

25 August 2025

Trump's willingness to cede Ukrainian land to Russia will have global repercussions, but the acceptance of land seizures actually goes back decades, with Israel being a serial offender

Christopher Phillips
A view taken on March 5, 2009, in Paris shows skeletons, part of the Department of Anthropology at the Musée de l'Homme (The Museum of Man) in Paris. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

'The Bread of the French': a poetic indictment of French racism

27 August 2025

Xavier Le Clerc's novel doesn't merely unmask France's ugly colonial past; it warns of the present's ability to reproduce it

Samir Qasimi

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