The IMF, World Bank and India, current president of the Group of 20 major economies, will convene a new sovereign debt roundtable again on April 3, an IMF official said on Thursday, with an eye to accelerating work on debt relief for countries in need. The gathering of deputies will be followed by a principals' meeting on the sidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings in Washington, the official said, but no firm date has been set. The meeting comes amid continued delays in securing debt treatment agreements for Zambia, Ghana and Ethiopia that U.S. officials and others blame on foot-dragging by China, now the world's largest bilateral creditor.
Holidaymakers travelling abroad this Easter could see their plans scuppered as strikes at home and on the continent cause travel chaos.
Ben Affleck has revealed Jennifer Lopez is a big fan of the TV show Yellowstone. During an interview for The Bill Simmons Podcast, the actor/director shared that his superstar wife is "drawn to the romance" between Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) on the hit Paramount series. "Jen showed me a clip off of Instagram of a monologue (Reilly) has in the car with the kid about the ways to become rich," he explained. "And then (Lopez) was like, 'I love this story of these two.'