Government Finances

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday approved one-off payments to law enforcement and military officials ahead of a...

By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defence ministry is seeking an annual budget increase that will add to past...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday the government of U.S. President Joe Biden "tends to...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati said on Friday he still had to overcome major hurdles to forming...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday said that everyone should buy a rifle, in a...

By Chris Mfula LUSAKA (Reuters) -Newly elected President Hakainde Hichilema on Friday named an experienced international economist to a second...

By Mei Mei Chu and Liz Lee KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob unveiled his cabinet...

By Marco Aquino and Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Congress on Thursday pushed back to Friday a key vote...

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters demonstrated peacefully in Colombia on Thursday to urge its congress...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The European Union is deeply concerned at the rapid deterioration of the crisis in Lebanon, its ambassador...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The head of Brazil's top electoral court (TSE), Luís Eduardo Barroso, said on Wednesday there is no...

By Dhara Ranasinghe and Yoruk Bahceli LONDON (Reuters) - A momentous German election marking the end of Angela Merkel's 16...

By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -U.S. climate envoy John F. Kerry is expected to travel to China next month to continue...

By Rupam Jain (Reuters) - Ashraf Haidari, an economist at the Aghan finance ministry, was waiting anxiously at home when...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Social payments to pensioners and soldiers announced by President Vladimir Putin before an election next month could cost...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved Yoav Gardos as the country's budget director after he had been serving...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the health and budget ministries to arrange payment for healthcare workers who...

By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Friday that political conflict is contaminating the...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - A majority of Japanese firms want Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to lose office through...

By Anthony Boadle and Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) -The deputy speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, Marcelo Ramos,...