Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed a former U.S.-based bank executive to head the central bank Friday, sending the strongest signal yet that the newly reelected leader might pivot from his unusual economic policies that many blame for worsening a cost-of-living crisis.
Eleven U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Central African Republic have been accused of sexual exploitation and abuse, the United Nations said Friday. Investigations were still underway, but preliminary evidence gathered by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services revealed that the members of
Brazil’s central bank abstained from involvement in developing the government’s comprehensive consumer debt renegotiation program unveiled on Monday, two central bank directors said on Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference, Renato Gomes, the director of the financial system organization, said that policymakers
Three people including two police officers were killed in Nagano in central Japan on Thursday and a suspect with a rifle and knife was holed up inside a building, police said. NHK public television said a person later escaped from the building
A cyclist in his 20s has died after a serious crash in central London today. Police and London Ambulance Service rushed to the area on Fitzroy Street scene but the man died.
A Just Stop Oil (JSO) protester has been pictured sprawled over the bonnet of a car, as commuters raged at the eco-zealots’s slow marching along the busy roads of central London. The man, who appeared to be elderly, was attempting to hold
Lebanon on Friday received an Interpol notice for the country’s embattled central bank governor who failed to show up in Paris earlier in the week for questioning in a key corruption case, officials said. France, Germany, and Luxembourg are investigating the governor,
Police have stepped in after Just Stop Oil protesters blocked a street in central London in the latest in a series of demonstrations. A tweet by Metropolitan Police Events said: “At 08:57hrs, section 12 conditions to move out of the road were
Chinese President Xi Jinping will chair the C+C5 summit later this month as it looks to boost key issues like its Belt and Road Initiative in what its Ministry of Foreign Affairs described as an event of “milestone significance.” For the first
India’s foreign minister held talks Thursday with counterparts from China and Russia ahead of a meeting of a Central Asian security forum. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said he had detailed discussions with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on bilateral ties. “Focus remains on resolving