Its security forces have brutally defended the Islamic Republic, but the protests show that many Iranians consider it stagnant and ideologically hollow. By Steven Erlanger Top officials from the U.S., ...

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

Substantial majorities of Democrats and Republicans oppose using military force to annex the island. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news ...

The Venezuelan regime had high-powered air defense systems from its allies in the Kremlin, but failed to set much of it up. By Maria Abi-HabibEric SchmittChristiaan Triebert and Julian E. Barnes ...

Immerse yourself in the most compelling and consequential stories from around the globe. The world is changing in big ways every day. State of the World from NPR takes you where the news is happening ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

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The months after the release of the June 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update have offered a glimpse of how difficult rekindling economic activity will be while the pandemic surges. During May and ...

The 2025 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund will take place from Monday, October 13 to Saturday, October 18. Keystones of the Annual Meetings are the Plenary ...

World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here by the ...

Global growth is projected at 3.1 percent in 2024 and 3.2 percent in 2025, with the 2024 forecast 0.2 percentage point higher than that in the October 2023 World Economic Outlook (WEO) on account of ...