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Marrakech, (CMC): The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, says countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) “have been very prudent over the last years in building sound, macroeconomic and...

PANAMA CITY (AP): Panama and Costa Rica announced a plan to quickly bus thousands of migrants through Panama to the Costa Rican border, as the countries continue to grapple with a steady increase in the number of migrants moving through the jungle-...

Abuha, Nigeria (AP) Many poor countries in Africa face the harshest effects of climate change: severe droughts, vicious heat and dry land, but also unpredictable rain and devastating flooding. The shocks worsen conflict and upend livelihoods...

JERUSALEM (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure on Wednesday created a war-time Cabinet overseeing the fight to avenge a stunning weekend attack by Hamas militants. In the sealed-off Gaza Strip ruled by...

TALLINN, (AP): Human rights advocate Oleg Orlov was fined about US$1,500 on Wednesday for criticising the war in Ukraine, the latest step in a relentless crackdown on activists, independent journalists and opposition figures. Orlov, co-chairman of...

JERUSALEM (AP): ISRAELI WARPLANES hammered the Gaza Strip neighbourhood by neighbourhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the...

ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP): People dug through the rubble of the quake in western Afghanistan for their few possessions, but the material losses seemed unimportant. Saturday’s 6.3 magnitude quake killed and injured thousands when it levelled an...