In Argentina, the poverty rate has surpassed 50 percent in the wake of wide-ranging austerity measures and deregulation.
International development organisation says sum will be deployed to support 78 countries that ‘need it most’.
Authorities say Antonio Guiteras power plant shut down overnight, prompting collapse of national power grid.
Suriname will distribute revenues from new oil and gas discoveries among its more than 600,000 citizens.
Discouraging population control may have short-term political benefits, but it will harm the country in the long run.
A huge fire has destroyed hundreds of shanty homes at a Philippine port, leaving thousands of residents homeless.
In Akodo-Ise in Lagos, homes, livelihoods and even graves have been lost to ocean encroachment due to climate change.
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Armed gangs attacked a wealthy suburb of the capital, police say, as part of effort to bring down the government.
Left-wing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says poverty and hunger the ‘product of political decisions’.
Nearly 10 million people have slipped out of Indonesia’s middle class since 2019, according to government statistics.
Labour government’s decision to scrap a winter allowance for elderly people to meet heating costs was met with outrage.
Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry has accused Brazilian officials of making ‘interventionist, rude statements’.
Gang-fueled violence caused 1,745 casualties between July and September; police accused of summary executions, UN says.
Commonwealth nations have pressured the UK to discuss reparations but prime minister Keir Starmer has resisted.
