The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, said on Wednesday that the outlook for the global economy had “darkened significantly” since April. She told Reuters that a global recession next year could not be ruled out, given the elevated risks.

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Membership for Kiev can only come after the conflict with Moscow ends, a State Department official has said Ukraine should not expect to become a NATO member at the bloc’s key summit later this year, a senior US State Department official has said.