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International Monetary Fund (IMF) was created just after World War II (WWII) in 1945. The IMF is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global...
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The last week saw the United Nations General Assembly as the focal point for global affairs, with the center stage given to the confrontation between a...
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So, mother, like Johannesburg, you cut me in deep, imaginative and raw ways. A cut from you was a project....
The polar oceans are among the most rapidly changing oceans in the world. The yearly cycle of the build-up and...
With a high-level informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of US, India, Japan and Australia on the side lines of...
At the end of September, the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), led by the former Chancellor – the 33-year-old “political prodigy”...
Qatar has announced sweeping reforms to its labour market, with a view to ending the kafala system and marking a...
The United States Department of Commerce’s decision to blacklist 28 Chinese public safety organizations and commercial entities hit at some...
The only certainty in war is its intrinsic uncertainty, something Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon chance upon. One...