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Multilateral and bilateral lenders on Wednesday made a series of pledges to support Ivory Coast's 2021-25 Development Plan totalling $26.1 billion, Prime Minister Patrick Achi said.

Recession fears have been rising with inflation running at a 40-year high and the Fed’s potential monetary policy tightening. The World Bank has recently warned of a recession and slashed its global growth forecast, adding to investors’ worries. Therefore, ETFs that perform well in a bear market, Direxion Daily S&P…

U.S. inflation running hotter-than-expected has led the benchmark indices to end the last week in the red. On top of it, the World Bank has warned of stagflation and slashed its global growth forecast. Amid this volatile situation, fundamentally solid stocks in the consumer defensive sector Kellogg (K), Kroger (KR),…

In Kabul, women talk about losing their jobs and being forced to wear a burqa, while others fear starvation

Despite differences, the Indus Waters Treaty is one of most effective examples of water management in the world

Lebanon's caretaker energy minister said on Wednesday "politics" was behind the delay of a U.S.-backed deal to supply his country with electricity from Jordan via Syrian territory to ease crippling power shortages.

Lebanon's caretaker energy minister said on Wednesday "politics" was behind the delay of a US-backed deal to supply his country with electricity from Jordan via Syrian territory to ease crippling power shortages. Walid Fayyad told Reuters that the World Bank, which had pledged to finance the project, was "tying it…

Tanishka Sodhi brings you the news from the Reserve Bank of India, Maharashtra, the Supreme Court, and the World Bank.

The EU has agreed on the text of a law to force smartphone makers to equip their devices with a single, common charging port known as USB Type-C. The deal with member states and lawmakers comes as a setback to Apple, which had argued that imposing a universal cable could…