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When the Dollar Falls

LONDON: For decades, the dollar’s position as the world’s leading reserve currency has provided the United States with extraordinary advantages: the ability to borrow at low interest rates, run large current-account deficits, and finance budget shortfalls by printing money without necessarily triggering inflation. But since the start of President Donald

South Africa pushes ahead with rail system reform

Johannesbur, Aug. 23: South Africa’s state-owned Transnet has completed the adjudication process for selecting private train companies to join the

China activates emergency response as Typhoon Kajiki approaches

Beijing, Aug 23: China on Saturday activated a Level-IV emergency response to flooding and typhoon in Hainan Province as Typhoon

How California Can Save US Democracy

Trump and Republicans in Texas (as well as Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and possibly other states) are openly trying to rig

Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested

Colombo, August 22 : Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested today by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after arriving to

Global South must claim the climate mantle at COP30

Trump’s resurgence has brought that era to an end. His administration has mocked climate science, propped up the fossil-fuel industry,

Keeping the Transatlantic Relationship Alive

For starters, all the joint (transatlantic) work done since NATO’s Wales Summit in 2014 has already established a solid foundation.

An Agenda for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises

Governments, international financial institutions, and civil-society organizations, recognizing the need to tackle today’s debt and development crises, are ready for

Trump’s Alaska Folly

Putin has no reason to prefer Trump’s vision of a beautiful future to his own: a Ukraine with a puppet

Climate Security Is Energy Security

Climate technologies that are already commercially viable could help, of course. But taking full advantage of the lower prices of