When EU-IMF troika officials have talked privately about how the Government has been faring on its bailout programme, they have borrowed a phra(...)

Three people were killed when the ceiling of a warehouse fell in at a shoe factory in Cambodia, a government minister said, adding to concerns(...)

The Turkish treasury will make a payment of $422.1 million (€525.6 million) to the International Monetary Fund today, deputy prime minister Ali(...)

Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised today to return to office with a resounding election victory — a mandate that could(...)

Nawaz Sharif has been here twice before, and the last time it did not end well for him or for Pakistan. Many of those celebrating the we(...)

Toppled in a 1999 coup, jailed and exiled, Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and today was heading for a third term as Pakis(...)

The political atmosphere is remarkably calm in spite of a range of testing issues facing the Government as it approaches the half way mark in i(...)

African governments must do more to spread the spoils of a resources boom that threatens to generate jobless growth and widen inequality, accor(...)

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble signalled support for an easing of Europe’s austerity drive as he prepared to face pressure from glob(...)

Slovenia has pledged to sell 15 state firms and raise VAT in a desperate bid to avoid an international bailout, but a reliance more on revenues(...)