Government Finances

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's cabinet will hold its first meeting in three months on Jan. 24, a Lebanese television channel...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka is facing its most serious financial...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Powerful Lebanese groups Hezbollah and Amal said on Saturday they would end a boycott of cabinet sessions,...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed on Thursday for a suspension of rules preventing the...

By Anna Mehler Paperny and David Ljunggren TORONTO (Reuters) - A proposal by Quebec to tax unvaccinated people may be...

By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - Fifteen years ago, Valerie Pecresse quelled a student uprising over her university reforms with...

By Loucoumane Coulibaly and Tiemoko Diallo ABIDJAN/BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali will not be able to complete a 30 billion CFA franc...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban administration said on Tuesday it was expanding its 'food for work' program, in which it...

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso will travel to China at the start of February to...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's fourth government was sworn in on Monday, a record 299 days...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan and Canada have agreed to start talks on an investment protection agreement, both governments said on...

By Christian Akorlie and Tiemoko Diallo ACCRA (Reuters) -West African nations will close their borders with Mali, sever diplomatic ties...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asked China to help restructure debt repayments as part of...

MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday it may be time to track the pandemic...

ACCRA (Reuters) - West Africa's main regional bloc will close borders with Mali and impose sweeping economic sanctions in response...

By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's main opposition Social Democrats promised on Friday to cut taxes on corporate profits...

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted to "piss off" the non-vaccinated, in a slangy, cutting...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Saturday cut Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from access to a duty-free trade program, following...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The new Dutch government is expected to be installed on Jan. 10, almost 10 months after the...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia wants to pass a supplementary budget worth 122 billion birr ($2.5 billion) to help finance...