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Apr 2025
31m 33s

IMF downgrades global growth predictions...

Bbc World Service
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The IMF cuts forecasts for every major economy and warns that the US could be hardest hit. Also: In Indian-administered Kashmir more than twenty tourists shot dead, and the surge in cosmetic surgery in China.

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