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Colombo (PTI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday expressed appreciation for the support India has been extending to his country during “this difficult period”. Wickremesinghe also said he is “grateful” for the positive response from India and Japan ...

Tokyo(AP): President Joe Biden said Monday that the US would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, saying the burden to protect Taiwan is “even stronger’ after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was one of the most forceful presidential ...

Canberra (Australia), May 21: Australia’s prime minister conceded defeat after an election on Saturday that could deliver a minority government. Scott Morrison acted quickly despite millions of votes yet to be counted because an Australian prime minister must attend a Tokyo ...

Several countries have reported an outbreak of the Monkeypox virus (MPXV) that causes smallpox-like infection. The virus according to the World Health Organisation is described as an “under-recognized” and “underreported emerging disease.” As of Friday, May 20, 2022, 11 countries ...

Colombo, May 11: Sri Lanka’s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday said he will appoint a new Prime Minister and a young Cabinet this week which would introduce constitutional reforms, amid continuing protests over the nation’s worst economic crisis that ousted ...

Colombo(PTI): Sri Lanka’s former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is facing calls for his arrest from Opposition politicians for inciting violence against peaceful anti-government protesters that claimed at least five lives, left over 200 people injured and saw arson attacks on ...

Colombo, May 6: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency with effect from Friday midnight, according to the presidential media division. The state of emergency gives the police and the security forces power to arbitrarily arrest and detain ...

Rome(AP): The United Nations has said that the number of people without enough to eat on a daily basis reached an all-time high last year and is poised to hit “appalling” new levels as the Ukraine war affects global food ...

Washington (PTI): Around the world, Muslims are being targeted with violence, US President Joe Biden said on Monday asserting that Muslims make America stronger every single day even as they still face real challenges and threats in the society that ...

Singapore (PTI): Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a mentally challenged Indian-origin Malaysian man found guilty of drug trafficking, was executed in Singapore on Wednesday, his family said, after a top court dismissed a last-ditch legal challenge from his mother in a controversial case ...

Bangkok(AP): A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison on Wednesday. Suu Kyi, who was ousted by an army takeover in February last year, ...

New York(PTI): Twitter’s India-born CEO Parag Agrawal has told worried employees that he doesn’t know what direction this company will go in once the whopping USD 44 billion deal, which will take the social media giant private, closes with new ...

Cairo (AP): A Sudanese aid group says that tribal clashes on Sunday between Arabs and non-Arabs in the war-ravaged Darfur region have killed 168 people. Adam Regal, spokesman for the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced in Darfur, says fighting ...

Washington (PTI): The US discourages India to rely on Russia for its defence needs, the Pentagon has said. In October 2018, India signed a USD 5 billion deal with Russia to buy five units of the S-400 Triumf air defence ...