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Hundreds pray outside the Jamia Masjid mosque in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Eid al-Fitr - the Muslim festival that marks the end of Ramadan. IMAGES
Images of Eid Al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of Ramadan, in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. IMAGES
Hundreds of people in Tunis demonstrate as part of various movements opposing President Kais Saied, gathering to protest against the deterioration of their living conditions, against a backdrop of increased political divisions, on the 12th anniversary of the fall of the dictator Ben Ali and the Tunisian Revolution. IMAGES
The European Central Bank unveils a new crisis-fighting tool to keep the borrowing costs of indebted eurozone governments like Italy under control as interest rates rise for the first time in a decade. Dubbed the "Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI)", the targeted bond-buying scheme "can be activated to counter unwarranted, disorderly market dynamics that pose a serious threat to the transmission of monetary policy across the euro area," says ECB President Christine Lagarde. SOUNDBITE by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB
Thousands protest in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, in demand of universal basic income, as the impoverished South American country struggles to repay its $44 billion debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) amid rampant inflation and social unrest. IMAGES
The world's economic outlook is "much more pessimistic" as a result of the war in Ukraine, warns Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, as the OECD slashes its 2022 growth forecast and projects higher inflation. SOUNDBITE
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