economic collapse

On a recent school day, the Rene Mouawad High School in Beirut was empty

Tunisia’s increasingly authoritarian president appears determined to upend the country’s political system. The strategy is sending the economy toward a tailspin.

The protests forced out former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last week.

Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Rajapaksa.

The Taliban have said that pressures on Afghan banks are decreasing and the international community has provided cash to the country.

Taliban officials are taking new actions to restrict women's freedoms and dismantle democratic institutions as they appeal to the world to release frozen humanitarian aid funds and bank accounts.

The economic collapse of Afghanistan, already teetering dangerously on the edge.