The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has awarded $120 million in emergency financial assistance to the government of Kyrgyzstan in order to help cover an urgent balance of payment risk due to the COVID-19 crisis, Asian News International reported March 27.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed new measures that would further restrict Chinese tech giant Huawei's access to global semiconductor chips, according to sources cited in a March 26 Reuters report.
According to a national poll released by the Levada Center, Russian voters are nearly evenly split on the government's proposed constitutional amendments that would allow President Vladamir Putin to run for another two terms, with 48 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed, Vedomosti reported March 27.
The U.S. government has indicted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and several other top Venezuelan officials on charges of "narco-terrorism," Reuters reported March 26.
FBI agents have killed an extremist who was plotting to use a car bomb to blow up a hospital in Missouri amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the Washington Post reported March 26.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank announced that Somalia had taken all of the steps needed to begin receiving debt relief, Reuters reported March 25.
India's COVID-19 crisis has created a surge of uncertainty over the distribution of food and medical supplies through its nationwide supply chains, the South China Morning Post reported March 24.
In a special televised address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the indefinite postponement of the April 22 constitutional referendum, as well as several financial measures in response to the country's escalating COVID-19 outbreak, CNN reported March 25.
South Africa's central bank announced it will buy government bonds in an effort to boost market liquidity and help the country's banks fund their operations amid growing COVID-19 concerns, Reuters reported March 25.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States was cutting $1 billion of aid from Afghanistan, and would conduct a review of all existing projects and programs to decipher whether Washington would suspend an additional $1 billion next year, Al Jazeera reported March 23.
