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IMF cancels debt payments for 6 months for 25 poor nations

by Associated Press
| April 13, 2020 4:03 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Monetary Fund approved $500 million on Monday to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world’s most impoverished countries so they can help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

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