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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said on April 19 they are joining forces with other international organizations to cooperate on tax issues and develop new tools and standards to halt tax base erosion and evasion.

Global stock markets rallied on Feb. 26, helped by firmer oil prices, as finance ministers and central bankers from the world's leading economies gathered to discuss recent financial turmoil.

As G-20 ministers met in Shanghai, markets were awaiting the latest US growth data for more clues on the state of the world's biggest economy.

Shocked German officials on Feb. 22 condemned two "disgusting" incidents involving anti-migrant mobs in the ex-communist east of the country, including a crowd cheering a blaze at a planned refugee shelter.

Donors have pledged $250 million to educate over one million Syrian children this year but an additional $500 million is urgently needed to fund the program in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, the U.N. envoy for global education said on Jan. 12.

Western leaders who met on the margins of last week's Group of 20 summit in Turkey agreed to extend sanctions imposed on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine by six months until July of next year, a senior European diplomat told Reuters.

Turkish coast guards recovered the bodies of four refugees off the coast of the Aegean province of Mu?la late Nov. 19, Turkish Coast Guard Command sources said.

The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged world leaders to fully implement the newest G-20 agenda regarding worldwide growth and unemployment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed some 40 countries, including those among the Group of 20 nations, for financing Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, Russia Today reported Nov. 16.

The leaders of the world's largest economies remain committed to a goal of lifting their collective output by an additional 2 percent by 2018, they said in a statement on Nov. 16, even though growth remains uneven and weaker than expected globally, as reported by Reuters. 

The leaders of the Group of 20 countries, who gathered in Antalya with a rare international political and security agenda, have put the struggle against terrorism at the top of their priorities in the aftermath of the Nov. 13 Paris attack and last month's Ankara Massacre.