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Street protests grip Sri Lanka as economic crisis escalates

01 Apr 2022

Street protests gripped Sri Lanka on Friday as demonstrators blocked main roads across the country, a day after hundreds tried to storm the president's home in anger over an...

Bracing up to face economic fallout of war

07 Mar 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the talks between the two countries in Belarus are proceeding with no sign of either process producing an early result. With the United States...

Neutral Switzerland’s economy shaken by sanctions on Russia

06 Mar 2022

Switzerland’s newly adopted tough stance on Russia has forced the Swiss economy to readjust to sanctions, blowing a wind of panic through the raw materials market in particular. Switzerland announced...

Ramifications of the war in Ukraine

27 Feb 2022

Egypt has called for a delegate-level emergency Arab League meeting to discuss the situation arising out of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as Arab states took different positions on...

Climate change and the oil economy

22 Feb 2022

It is a big question, and it is a troubling question. To keep the climate change goal of restricting the rise of temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius, it...

Eurozone economic growth jumps in February as virus curbs ease

21 Feb 2022

Economic growth in the eurozone jumped sharply in February as coronavirus restrictions were eased, a key survey showed on Monday. Growth accelerated to a five-month high, IHS Markit said in...

World food prices jump 28% to their highest level in a decade

06 Jan 2022

World food prices jumped 28 per cent in 2021 to their highest level in a decade and hopes for a return to more stable market conditions this year are slim,...

Stocks to see in New Year near record highs after banner 2021

31 Dec 2021

Stock markets dipped on Friday in thin trading but were set to see in the New Year with double-digit gains for 2021, while oil prices retreated from $80 a barrel...

It’s time to avoid any new war for the sake of people

29 Dec 2021

Nicholas Goldberg, Tribune News Service Americans are tired of war. We just got out of a 20-year fiasco in Afghanistan with little to show for it except the Taliban...

Japan’s November retail sales rise but Omicron risks loom

27 Dec 2021

Japan’s retail sales rose faster than expected in November, thanks to decreasing COVID-19 cases in the month, which have encouraged shoppers to ramp up spending on goods and services. To...

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