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Sri Lanka's central bank has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments that will ease crippling shortages, its governor said on Thursday, as the prime minister said supplies had been locked in for at least a month.

It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet.

Liz Truss unveils plan to almost halve budget to multilateral bodies, challenge ‘malign actors’ and boost trade-linked deals

From civil servants, teachers and doctors to journalists and business owners, loss of female workers under the Taliban has already cost the economy $1bn

Six months on, the war in Ukraine and ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have derailed some changes agreed on in Glasgow

Across Latin America, the sharpest price spike in a generation has left many widely consumed local products suddenly hard to attain

President Joe Biden said that the U.S. will share technologies used to make COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization and is working on expanding rapid testing and antiviral treatments for hard-to-reach populations. "We are making available health technologies that are owned by the United States government, including stabilized spike protein that…

Lebanese vote on Sunday in the first election since their country's economic collapse, a test of whether Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies can preserve their parliamentary majority amidst soaring poverty and anger at ruling parties.

Washington (AFP) - Payments from workers living abroad to low- and middle-income countries are expected to rise 4.2 percent this year, with Ukraine as the main beneficiary of the increase, the World Bank said Wednesday.