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Escobar worries Kosovo’s dinar ban could cause ‘humanitarian crisis’

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar warned Thursday that Kosovo’s ban on usage of the Serbian dinar could trigger “an emerging humanitarian issue” for the country’s ethnic Serb minority. Escobar stressed that the issue must be addressed “immediately,” and that it “has caused some real hardship for some of the citizens of this country.”

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Worries weigh on FDI

Net foreign direct investments (FDI) surged in December last year but were not enough to push the 2023 tally past the previous year's count, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data showed on Monday. The month's net inflow of $826 million — 29.9 percent higher compared to a year earlier — brought the full-year result to

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Rat on a plane sparks worries for Sri Lanka’s airline

SriLankan Airlines Airbus 330-200 takes off from Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake — Sri Lanka’s national airline on Tuesday blamed a rat for grounding a plane for three days, sparking chaotic delays and fears it will scare off investors for the cash-strapped carrier.(Photo by Pradeep Dambarage / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP) COLOMBO, Feb 27,

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Climate change worries 87% of Filipinos

MORE Filipinos — around 87 percent — are “somewhat worried” or get “very worried” about climate change, according to the International Public Opinion on Climate Change 2023 published last November. The number is 2 percent higher compared to 2022. Eighty-seven percent of Filipinos believe that climate change is happening today, 1 percent lower compared to

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