Iran replaces central bank head in effort to contain cost-of-living protests
Anger over collapse of currency has provoked largest demonstrations in Islamic republic in years...
Dec 31Financial TimesPolitics
Anger over collapse of currency has provoked largest demonstrations in Islamic republic in years...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Ghana legalizes cryptocurrency trading and activities. ✓ Central bank is authorized to regulate the sector. ...
The US dollar traded at 1.38 million rials on Wednesday, compared with 430,000 rials when the previous governor took office in 2022....
A Cambodian bank founded by accused scam boss Chen Zhi, who has been indicted by the United States over a multibillion-dollar fraud and extradited to China, was ordered liquidated on Thursday, Cambodi...
When the United Nations General Assembly unanimously recognised Turkmenistan’s status of permanent neutrality in December 1995, few could have predicted quite how central this principle would become t...
China’s yuan climbed past the psychological milestone of 7 per dollar for the first time since September 2024, on bets the central bank will allow a gradual appreciation to boost market confidence....
After 14 years, Cyprus takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on January 1. It will lead during a politically sensitive moment, and aims to shape the EU's role on the ...
China’s central bank has set the yuan’s daily reference rate at its strongest level in 15 months, as the currency strengthened in offshore trading and briefly broke through the closely watched seven-p...
The US president wants to take the vast arctic territory from Denmark. What could he really do?...
The US president has argued that control of Greenland is a "strategic" necessity. The Danish government has warned a takeover of Greenland would mean the end of NATO....
A recent Saudi air strike on UAE weapons in Yemen exposed major differences between the two important Gulf states' foreign policy plans. But which plan is most likely to succeed?...
President Faustin Archange Touadera has secured a third term, though the main opposition coalition boycotted the presidential election. Touadera is one of Russia's closest allies in Africa....
Aidarous al-Zubaidi was accused of treason shortly before fleeing to Abu Dhabi, amid an escalating Saudi-UAE row as they back competing factions in Yemen....
The two Asian giants are locked in an escalating row triggered by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi commenting on security challenges linked to Taiwan....
Provisional results released by the electoral council in the Central African Republic suggest President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has been elected for a third term with 76% of the vote. The results ha...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The Finnish government released a Truth and Reconciliation report documenting harms to the Sámi people. ✓ Climate change,...
The President of the Central African Republic is vying for a controversial third term as polling begins in the country. Central Africans are also voting for their legislative, regional and municipal r...
Thieves broke into the vault of one branch of Germany's Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen. Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images Thieves stole valuables worth at least $36 million from a German ...
Yemen's Saudi-backed presidential council canceled a defense pact with the UAE and asked its forces to leave the country within 24 hours....
Rescue workers were searching for at least 34 sanitation workers who were trapped after a mound of garbage buried them at a dump in the central Philippines. At least one person has been confirmed dead...