Germany’s energy and climate minister says the Group of Seven wealthy nations can lead the way on ending the use of coal.

The Spanish government will tighten judicial control over the country’s intelligence agency.

Sri Lanka’s prime minister says that he will quickly prepare an economic reform program and seek approval from the International Monetary Fund.

KARACHI, Pakistan – Pakistan on Thursday announced it will hike fuel prices so that it can resume receiving aid from a $6 billion package signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2019, the country’s finance minister said.

China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a game-changing bid by China to wrest control of the region.

MONTREAL – A sweeping law adopted by Quebec on Tuesday to promote French usage is elevating already simmering tensions with indigenous groups, who see the move as an imposition and have vowed to fight it.

Australia’s new government has urged China to lift trade sanctions if it wants to reset a bilateral relationship that plumbed new depths under the previous administration.

A senior Turkish official says Turkey will not agree to Sweden and Finland joining NATO without “concrete steps in a certain timeframe” to address Ankara’s concerns.

DAVOS, Switzerland – Six months after the world agreed in Glasgow to a U.N. climate pact with bold, new targets, political and business leaders facing an energy crisis, volatile markets and an economic downturn are grappling with how to cut carbon emissions.

China says the U.S.