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International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday praised Ukraine’s economic progress and urged its creditors to take full advantage of a deal to restructure $18 billion of sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt. Speaking in Kiev alongside Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Lagarde said: “It is really up to all creditors to take advantage of (this) debt restructuring … We believe it is a very good arrangement … We doubt very much
Britons consider Queen Elizabeth II their greatest monarch, according to a survey published three days before she becomes her nation’s longest-serving head of state. A total of 27 percent of respondents backed the current queen, according to an opinion poll conducted by YouGov for the Sunday Times newspaper. Elizabeth, who is 89, will on Sept. 9 beat the record held by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An independent report released Sunday dismantles the Mexican government’s investigation into last year’s disappearance of 43 teachers’ college students, starting with the assertion that the giant funeral pyre in which the attorney general said they were burned to ash beyond identification simply never happened.
Ex-Soviet Tajikistan’s interior ministry said Sunday that four more militants were killed by government forces in a continuation of violence that began with shootouts Friday, and has now left at least 26 dead. “Government forces of Tajikistan killed four members of a terrorist group during an operation in the Ramit Valley,” an MVD spokesperson told AFP of the military operation under way roughly 50 kilometres northeast from the country’s capital,
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Independent commission rejects Mexican government account of the disappearance of 43 students.
Algeria, Niger and Chad on Sunday stressed the urgency of creating a national unity government to solve the conflict in their neighbour Libya. Algeria’s African affairs ministers and the foreign ministers of Niger and Chad stressed the importance of such a government “to preserve Libya’s unity and territorial integrity and its people’s cohesion”.
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a call by Israel’s opposition leader to provide refuge to Syrian refugees, saying the country is too small to take them in. Images in recent days of thousands of refugees herded on and off trains in Europe as they sought a safe haven from Middle East conflict struck a chord in Israel, a state created three years
WASHINGTON (AP) — Already a done deal in Congress, the Iran nuclear agreement gained more momentum Sunday when former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head of the Democratic National Committee, announced their support.
The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees newly arrived from the Middle East.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lobbing rhetorical stink bombs at a large group of voters is not the normal way to get ahead in U.S. politics. Nor is alienating prominent figures of your own party.
