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On a visit to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls on Russia to "step back" and choose the "path of diplomacy", as tensions brew between Russia and the West over a potential invasion of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
The International Monetary Fund projects that energy prices "will be elevated" during the coming winter months but will then "come back down by the end of the first quarter next year and into the second quarter," IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath says in an interview with AFP. SOUNDBITE
"Our expectation is in the second half of the year we would see the European economies on a sound recovery path," Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, says in remarks ahead of the spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. SOUNDBITE
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demands the impeachment of Donald Trump in the final week of his presidency, calling him a "clear and present danger" to America for inciting an "armed rebellion" at the US Capitol. SOUNDBITE
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell says that his "confidence has grown" that the battle against inflation is on track. "After a pause earlier this year, progress toward our 2 percent objective has resumed. My confidence has grown that inflation is on a sustainable path back to 2 percent," he says in a keynote speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in the US state of Wyoming. SOUNDBITE