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Explainer: Why the US stock market is tumbling in 2022
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Explainer: Why the US stock market is tumbling in 2022

A voter has a finger inked after casting a ballot at a polling precinct during the national elections in Manila, Philippines, May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
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Soaring gold and black gold: How Russo-Ukraine war affects gold, oil prices

Demonstrators apply a sticker on a passing car during a protest against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, near the Presidential Secretariat, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 16, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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Sri Lanka's reluctance to tap IMF helped push it into an economic abyss

A health worker prepares a booster dose of a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine, as vaccinations jump in Italy after the government made inoculation mandatory for all workers, in Rome, Italy. Photo: Reuters
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Why we can’t ‘boost’ our way out of the Covid-19 pandemic for the long term

A Ukrainian flag, a larger flag planted amid 500 smaller Ukrainian flags in a park, flies in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, US, March 14, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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Why did the United States resettle only 12 Ukrainian refugees in March?

A combination picture shows portraits of the two candidates running for the second round in the 2022 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen, leader of French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party, and French President Emmanuel Macron, candidate for his re-election. Pictures taken February 5, 2022 (L) and April 2, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
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Macron or Le Pen: why it matters for France, the EU and the West

A shopkeeper tunes a television screen to watch the speech of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, at his shop in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 31, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
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What political upheaval in Pakistan means for rest of the world

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South Asia

Why many Indian states declared ‘The Kashmir Files’ tax-free

An armoured personnel carrier is seen during tactical exercises, which are conducted by the Ukrainian National Guard, Armed Forces, special operations units and simulate a crisis situation in an urban settlement, in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, 4 February, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Explainer: Why Russia and Ukraine are fighting for Chernobyl disaster site

FILE PHOTO: Workers are seen at the construction site of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, near the town of Kingisepp, Leningrad region, Russia, June 5, 2019. REUTERS
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Suspension, sanctions, lawsuits: Germany's Nord Stream 2 headache

A view shows a Russian rouble coin and a US dollar banknote in this picture. Photo :Reuters
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Western sanctions on banks only scratch surface of Fortress Russia

Britain's Prince Andrew, who was accompanying Queen Elizabeth, visits The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn to open the new Ashworth Centre, and re-open the recently renovated Great Hall, in London, Britain, December 13, 2018. Photo :Reuters
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