A school security guard measures the temperature of the pupils at the entrance of Kitante Primary School in Kampala, Uganda on Jan 10, 2022. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA – Uganda is grappling with double-digit inflation as spillover effects of the global economic decline filter through the domestic economy, the country's central bank, Bank of […]
A school security guard measures the temperature of the pupils at the entrance of Kitante Primary School in Kampala, Uganda on Jan 10, 2022. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA – Uganda is grappling with double-digit inflation as spillover effects of the global economic decline filter through the domestic economy, the country's central bank, Bank of […]
A nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at the Strasbourg University Hospital, eastern France, Jan 13, 2022. (JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS / AP) LONDON – More than 300,000 members of Britain's largest nursing union will begin voting on Thursday over a strike to demand a pay rise that keeps up with soaring […]
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire set by demonstrators during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Aug 22, 2022. (ODELYN JOSEPH / AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE – Thousands of Haitians on Monday joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year […]
This file photo dated Feb 12, 1974, shows Battersea Power Station on the south side of the River Thames in London. (LAURENCE HARRIS / AP) LONDON – Plans for a high-wage, high-growth economy lie in ruins as Britain's Conservative prime minister struggles to answer a cost-of-living crisis, compounded by rising worker unrest. It is December […]
Flags of the European Union flutter in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on March 10, 2021. (ARMANDO BABANI / AFP) BRUSSELS – The European Commission cut its economic growth forecasts for the European Union and the eurozone for 2022 and 2023 and revised up its […]
Members of social organizations and leftist groups protest against the agreement of the government of Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez with the International Monetary Fund, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 9, 2022. (LUIS ROBAYO / AFP) BUENOS AIRES – Argentine President called for unity on Saturday as protesters marched in the capital to the gates […]