The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed “full confidence” in its managing director in response to allegations that World Bank staff were pressured to...
Tigray forces say Ethiopia’s government has launched its threatened major military offensive against them in an attempt to end a nearly year-old war.
A statement...
Austria’s new chancellor has taken the reins of power, two days after Sebastian Kurz resigned amid corruption allegations.
Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen swore...
Three US-based economists won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics for work on drawing conclusions from unintended experiments, or so-called “natural experiments”.
David Card of...
Czech president Milos Zeman was rushed to hospital the day after the country held parliamentary elections in which populist prime minister Andrej Babis’ party...
