IAEA to help Iraq develop peaceful nuclear programme, agency head says
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi met Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad on Monday as part of a visit to help the country…
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi met Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad on Monday as part of a visit to help the country…
RIYADH (Reuters) – The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday it had paused general food distribution in north Yemen due to limited funding and disagreement with local authorities over…
KYIV (Reuters) – An International Monetary Fund monitoring mission started work on Monday on the second review of a $15.6 billion multi-year loan program for Ukraine. Vahram Stepanyan, IMF’s resident…
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s cabinet will consider next week a debt suspension plan for farmers and how to implement a digital wallet handout scheme, a deputy minister said on Thursday.…
LONDON (Reuters) – An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team will visit Colombo in a month’s time for the first review on Sri Lanka’s loan programme, a spokesperson said on…
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will put climate change and local jobs at the centre of its international aid programme, in a policy overhaul designed to compete with…
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England forecast on Tuesday that it would make a net loss of just over 150 billion pounds ($193 billion) over the…
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund’s executive board has approved an immediate $189 million disbursement to Zambia following its first review of a $1.3 billion loan programme, the IMF said…
(Reuters) – The board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $3 billion, nine-month bailout programme for Pakistan on Wednesday, the IMF said. Pakistan and the Fund had reached…
By Sakura Murakami and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he welcomed that Japan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had agreed…
By Jorgelina do Rosario LONDON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund executive board will meet on July 12 to complete the first review of its $1.3 billion extended fund facility…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s supervisory board will meet on Tuesday to discuss a planned savings programme ahead of its capital markets day on June 21, two sources close to the…
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea made a failed attempt at launching its first spy satellite on Wednesday, with the booster and payload plunging into the sea, North Korean state media…
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday that Poland plans to launch a submarine purchase programme in 2023. Poland has increased military spending since Russia’s invasion…
By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government is expected to fund part of its spending for childcare measures by issuing additional bonds over a period of…
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he shared Ethiopia’s aspiration to rejoin the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a U.S. trade programme,…
BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Group of Seven (G7) nations on Thursday raised economic support to Ukraine to $39 billion for this year and urged an IMF programme for the country…
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -An International Monetary Fund mission will visit Pakistan later this month to discuss the stalled ninth review of the country’s current funding programme,…
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea forged ahead with its missile programme in 2022 and took steps toward resuming testing of nuclear bombs, as world events including the…
(Reuters) – The board of directors of Russian top carmaker AvtoVAZ approved the firm’s 2023 investment programme for just under 40 billion roubles ($585 million), Russia’s state news agency RIA…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s space agency will borrow up to 50 billion roubles ($710 million) in 2023 to fund a mass satellite-building programme to catch up with the United States…
PARIS (Reuters) – France will release some 4 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), worth about 5 billion euros ($5.26 billion), to the world’s most vulnerable countries…
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will “expeditiously” finish their technical engagement as part of the ninth review of Pakistan’s bailout programme, Pakistan’s finance ministry said…
(Reuters) -Egypt has finalised a staff-level agreement with the international monetary fund (IMF) on the components of its programme, and will issue an announcement “very soon,” the country’s finance minister…
By Angus McDowall and Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $1.9 billion rescue package that could be…