Britain on Thursday set out pay rises of at least 6% for millions of public sector staff, including teachers and some healthcare workers, accepting the recommendations of the independent pay review bodies.
The International Monetary Fund's board approved a $3 billion bailout programme for Pakistan which will immediately disburse about $1.2 billion to help stabilise the South Asian ailing economy, the lender said on Wednesday.
A United Nations expert on Tuesday said Israel had transformed the occupied Palestinian territories into an "open-air prison" through widespread detentions of Palestinians, an assertion swiftly dismissed by Israel.
An Argentine team is traveling on Tuesday to the United States to meet with officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to negotiate terms to relax the agreement between the two, a source at Argentina's economy ministry said.
SVB Financial Group has sued the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) to recover the $1.93 billion the regulator seized during its takeover of the failed Silicon Valley Bank in March, according to a filing in a bankruptcy court on Sunday.