An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team has concluded discussions with Sri Lankan authorities on the country’s seventh review under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement and the 2026 Article IV Consultation,
Editorial Sri Lanka now presents a deeply unsettling spectacle, not as a nation merely grappling with fiscal fragility or administrative disorder, but as an island where corrosive indulgence is being repackaged as
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Serbia’s arms exports to Israel surged by 140 percent in 2025, reaching a record 114 million euros ($131.1 million), according to official data from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.
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The conflict ignited by US-Israel strikes on Iran has already devastated 67,414 civilian sites, with hostilities spreading across the Middle East and disproportionately affecting ordinary people, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk
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Under the updated reproductive health directives, Russian doctors are instructed to ask women how many children they plan to have. Those who indicate they do not intend to give birth are now
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Faced with a record 13 million graduates entering an uncertain job market, Chinese schools are offering vocational degrees in grilling, crayfish, and noodles to prepare students for employment in the booming culinary
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The UK government has announced a drastic reduction in aid spending to some of the world’s poorest nations, cutting funding by 40% over the next year. Under plans unveiled by Foreign Secretary
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NASA is revising its Artemis moon-landing plans, reducing Boeing Co.’s Space Launch System (SLS) role while elevating SpaceX’s Starship rocket to carry astronauts to lunar orbit, according to people familiar with the
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U.S. auto safety regulators have upgraded their investigation of Tesla Inc.’s “Full-Self Driving” (FSD) system to an engineering analysis, following additional crashes that suggest the technology may struggle to handle driving conditions
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has announced an aggressive plan to grow its cloud and artificial intelligence revenue to $100 billion annually within the next five years, aiming to counter the slowing momentum
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China’s government spending accelerated at the fastest pace for any start to a year since 2022, as authorities move to prop up the economy amid mounting domestic and international challenges. Bloomberg calculations
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are offering hedge fund clients ways to bet against the private credit market, according to people familiar with the matter. Both banks have
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Tehran’s effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has left tens of thousands of mariners stranded on ships carrying millions of barrels of oil, navigating a war zone where drones, missiles, and
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Iraq has struck a deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to reopen the 600-mile Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, resuming exports from northern fields to Turkey’s Mediterranean port. The North Oil Company confirmed that
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Jeff Bezos is reportedly in early discussions to raise an eye-popping $100 billion for a new fund designed to acquire manufacturing companies and accelerate automation using artificial intelligence, according to the Wall
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The Pentagon has quietly signaled it will seek a staggering $200 billion from Congress to sustain the ongoing war in Iran, a figure that would significantly expand the already immense U.S. defense
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