CHENGDU (CHINA) - Increasingly frequent terrorist attacks are becoming a growing threat to the global economy, finance chiefs from the world's leading economies said Sunday. In a report ahead of the G20 meeting, IMF staff cited terrorism as an "ongoing concern", among others including geopolitical tensions, climate-related factors and diseases. "The world has already experienced terrorist attacks, the world experiences regional destabilisations," he told AFP. Last week a German-Iranian gunman -- believed not to be connected to the Islamic State group but "obsessed" with mass killers -- shot dead nine people in the German city of Munich before killing himself. Kabul mourned Sunday after its deadliest attack for 15 years killed 80 people and left hundreds maimed the previous day, reigniting concern that Islamic State was seeking to expand its foothold in Afghanistan.

Source: Bangkok Post July 24, 2016 09:22 UTC