Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's threat of nuclear weapons use "could be a reality," in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
Billed as a "mini-budget" by her Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng, Friday's fiscal announcement was anything but with a volume of tax cuts not seen in Britain since 1972.
"Coming from the person who has the sole decision-making power regarding Russian nuclear weapons this will have to be taken seriously," one analyst said.
Turkey's central bank surprised markets once again with its decision Thursday to cut its key interest rate, despite inflation in the country surging beyond 80%.
Before the war, Ukraine and Russia accounted for almost a quarter of global grain exports until those shipments came to a severe halt for nearly six months.
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