Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing one of the toughest political decisions of his

THE government’s decision to raise fuel prices from Thursday night to partially pass on the impact of rising global oil prices to consumers will remove a major hitch in the way of concluding a staff-level agreement with the IMF.... The decision came on the eve of a six-day ultimatum given by Mr Khan to announce early elections.... Once that condition is fully met, chances are that the IMF will enhance funding under the programme and extend the arrangement through June 2023 for fiscal consolida

SOME 11 years after Malaysia announced its ambitious plan to reach a “ near-balanced ” budget by 2020.... The country has not only missed its target but is also facing a fiscal dilemma amid a widening budget deficit and the call for more stimulus injection. The budget deficit level had been steadily declining since 2010, but this came to an end in 2018 after the then Pakatan Harapan government recognised off-the-books projects as development expenditure to deal with the burgeoning debts left by

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance on Friday forecast tough days ahead — including rising inflation

support in taking ‘tough’ decisions, while Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is set to call a meeting of all

law could be applied against political parties. Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2025....

to run on the bills--is dwindling.... Read More" It has been a tough month" for Biden and Democrats

Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst.... She is a senior adviser at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute, which is not affiliated with the Biden campaign.... The views expressed in this commentary are her own....

CNN — The US government took one step back from self-inflicted economic disaster on Tuesday.... Accomplishing that larger goal would require meddling with the sacred cows of American government spending – from the Pentagon, Social Security and Medicare – which weren’t even part of this debt ceiling conversation.... President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have portrayed the debt ceiling bill as the best possible compromise achievable in the limited time before the Treasury Departme

Unlike the earthquake the shook American politics two years ago, the 2018 midterm elections went