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While President Donald Trump busies himself with his apoplectic rejection of Joe Biden as president-elect, world leaders have swiftly moved on. In a sign of Biden's legitimacy, leaders of major democracies have stepped up to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden in recent days. Doubtless salt to his wound, Trump's favorite network--Fox News--and media outlets across the board have also declared Biden the projected winner of the election. Business Insider reports that as a whole, EU leaders and even Israel and Turkey have congratulated Biden. Only Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Xing Ping, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have yet to join in.
Washington DC, Apr 14 (EFE).- "We project global growth in 2020 to fall to -3 per cent," the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported on Tuesday."This is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from January 2020, a major revision over a very short period. This makes the Great Lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and far worse than the Global Financial Crisis," the organism added.FOOTAGE OF WORLD BANK AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON DC.
"We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression," IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says in a speech previewing next week's spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, as she warns that "global growth will turn sharply negative in 2020," due to the global coronavirus pandemic. SOUNDBITE
Drake has revealed he has already started working on his sixth album and promised UK fans he will be back on tour in 2020 with new music.
Over 800 species from all around the world, from the mighty tiger down to tiny meerkats, had their measurements taken for London Zoo’s annual weigh-in.
Adele's '21' is ranked as the greatest album of all time ahead of the release of her new album, '25.' Rollo Ross reports.