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Ethiopia’s central bank floated the birr currency on Monday, a move it hopes will secure International Monetary Fund (IMF) support and enable progress on a long-delayed debt restructuring. The birr’s value against the U.S. dollar slumped by 30% to 74.73 per

Alexei Navalny was about to be freed in a prisoner swap when he died, according to his ally Maria Pevchikh. She said the Russian opposition leader was going to be exchanged for Vadim Krasikov, a Russian hitman who is serving a

More than 20 heads of state and government from over 100 nations are set to convene in southern Türkiye for the 3rd Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) next month, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Sunday. The forum will be held under the

Japan Airlines on Thursday said it expected losses of more than $100 million after one of its planes was destroyed when it collided with another aircraft on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport this week. All 379 people on board the JAL Airbus

An U.S. imam who was shot outside a New Jersey mosque on Wednesday has died as authorities look for likely motive behind the killing, the U.S. state’s attorney general said. The attorney general added that the killing did not initially appear to be

The World Bank is working to slash how long it takes to get financing projects off the ground as part of a push to speed up and scale up the 79-year-old development lender, its president told Agence France-Presse (AFP) Wednesday. It

French and German foreign ministries criticized Israeli government officials’ outrageous statements on the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza to be replaced by Israelis. “We reject the statements made by the two ministers in the strongest possible terms. They are neither sensible

Prominent LGBTQ rights activist Steven Kabuye was attacked and severely injured by unknown assailants in Uganda while heading to work on Wednesday morning, according to his organization. Coloured Voice – Truth to LGBTQ, shared on the social platform X, reported that