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The dollar fell broadly on March 30 and with just one more day left in March headed for its worst quarter in five years against a basket of currencies, as investors wound back their expectations for U.S. interest rate rises in 2016.

Bulgaria should use public-private partnerships to a bigger extent to develop its tourism industry as they do in the United States, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said.

Angelkova has made her comments in an interview for Focus News Agency, after meeting with Kenneth Hyatt, the US Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade, in Washington, DC.

State prosecutors have filed charges against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a money laundering investigation, putting further scrutiny on one of Brazil's towering political figures who is being hounded by corruption allegations.

Istanbul is set to host a global meeting focused on humanitarian aid to Somalia, which is scene to persistently high and alarming levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, with an estimated 4.7 million people - nearly 40 per cent of the Somali population - in need of humanitarian assistance.

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said on Feb. 17 that it would halt independent oil sales if Baghdad pays its employees, but cast doubt on the federal government's ability to implement the proposal.

Iraq's federal government will pay the salaries of the cash-strapped Kurdish region's employees if it halts its independent oil exports, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said late Feb. 15.

A county sheriff and judge on Jan. 4 demanded that self-styled militiamen occupying a remote U.S. wildlife center in Oregon peacefully end their 3-day-old anti-government siege, telling the protesters: "It's time for you to leave our community."

There’s a place in almost every city that tourists usually don’t visit. It’s usually the place that gives seed to uprising where there were murders and where political extremism reigns supreme.

Exarchia, Athens, Greece

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff suffered a new setback Oct. 7 when a court declared her government's accounting practices were illegal, handing ammunition to opponents threatening impeachment proceedings.

The Federal Accounts Court or TCU's ruling was the latest blow for Rousseff, who is less than a year into her second term.    

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the government to implement Urdu as the country's official language, replacing English in all communications 68 years after gaining independence from Great Britain.