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Prince Harry wins bid to challenge UK over security arrangements

Prince Harry wins bid to challenge UK over security arrangements

-- 2022-07-22 18:14:38

A British court on Friday granted permission for Prince Harry to challenge a government decision that denied him police protection while in Britain. Harry, Queen Elizabeth's grandson, received the fu...

Sri Lanka president expected to keep finance portfolio

Sri Lanka president expected to keep finance portfolio

-- 2022-07-22 17:46:53

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to keep the finance portfolio and could also appoint a junior minister to help him out with the department's work, a source with knowledge of the...

Covid-19 patients dying at record rates in New Zealand

Covid-19 patients dying at record rates in New Zealand

-- 2022-07-22 17:35:20

New Zealanders are dying from Covid-19 at record rates as the country battles a new wave of the omicron strain that is particularly affecting the older population. Deaths from the virus reached 151 i...

Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine block Google search engine

Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine block Google search engine

-- 2022-07-22 17:17:17

Russian-backed separatists in a breakaway region of eastern Ukraine have blocked access to the search engine Google, their leader said on Friday, citing what he calls "disinformation", reports Reuters...

Lebanese president urges IMF to end aid deal with them

Lebanese president urges IMF to end aid deal with them

-- 2022-07-22 17:15:41

Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to conclude the aid agreement with the crisis-ridden country, saying Lebanon has been adopting the needed structu...

BBC to pay damages to former British royal nanny

BBC to pay damages to former British royal nanny

-- 2022-07-22 17:14:48

The BBC is paying damages to the ex-nanny to Princes William and Harry over false claims made about her to obtain a 1995 Princess Diana interview. Alexandra Pettifer, known as Tiggy, was given an apo...

Seven killed in Russian air attack on Syria

Seven killed in Russian air attack on Syria

-- 2022-07-22 17:04:34

Russian air strikes on a rural swath of northwest Syria on Friday killed at least seven people including four children, a war monitoring group and rescuers said, following months of relative calm in t...

Biden experiencing mild symptoms after contracting Covid-19

Biden experiencing mild symptoms after contracting Covid-19

-- 2022-07-22 16:23:20

US President Joe Biden is experiencing mild symptoms after testing positive for Covid-19. The White House on Thursday said he will continue working while staying in isolation. Biden, 79, has a runny...

UN court to rule on Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar

UN court to rule on Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar

-- 2022-07-22 15:52:53

The United Nations' highest court is ruling Friday on whether to proceed with a landmark case that accuses Myanmar's rulers of genocide against the country's mainly Muslim Rohingya minority. The Inte...

Ukraine's ports to reopen under deal to be signed Friday, Turkey says

Ukraine's ports to reopen under deal to be signed Friday, Turkey says

-- 2022-07-22 15:05:22

Russia and Ukraine will sign a deal on Friday to reopen Ukraine's Black Sea ports for grain exports, Turkey said, raising hopes that an international food crisis caused by Russia's invasion could be e...

Gunawardena sworn in as Sri Lanka's new prime minister

Gunawardena sworn in as Sri Lanka's new prime minister

-- 2022-07-22 13:14:15

Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, his office said, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapple...

At least 18 killed in latest deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro

At least 18 killed in latest deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-22 12:46:45

At least 18 people died on Thursday during a major police raid in a dense warren of Rio de Janeiro slums, state military police said, in the latest bloody confrontation in Brazil's second-largest city...

Sri Lankan forces raid anti-government protest camp as new president takes office

Sri Lankan forces raid anti-government protest camp as new president takes office

-- 2022-07-22 12:09:32

Sri Lankan security forces raided a protest camp occupying government grounds in the main city of Colombo early on Friday and cleared out a section of it, a sign that the country's new president was c...

Capitol riot: Trump ignored pleas to condemn attack, hearing told

Capitol riot: Trump ignored pleas to condemn attack, hearing told

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-22 11:19:01

Ex-US President Donald Trump watched last year's Capitol riot on TV at the White House, ignoring his children and aides who "begged him" to rebuke the mob, a congressional inquiry has heard. "He chos...

World Court to rule on whether Myanmar genocide case can proceed

World Court to rule on whether Myanmar genocide case can proceed

REUTERS 2022-07-22 10:38:49

The World Court is expected to rule on Friday on Myanmar's objections to a genocide case over its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority, a decision that could pave the way for the case to be heard...

Spain, Portugal reject EU plan to cap natural gas use

Spain, Portugal reject EU plan to cap natural gas use

-- 2022-07-21 22:00:06

The European Union's plan to reduce the bloc's gas use by 15 per cent to prepare for a potential cutoff by Russia this winter has been met with sharp scepticism by Spain and Portugal, two governments...

Sri Lanka's new president to appoint ally of ousted Rajapaksa as PM

Sri Lanka's new president to appoint ally of ousted Rajapaksa as PM

-- 2022-07-21 21:50:42

New Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will appoint an ally of the ousted Rajapaksa dynasty as prime minister, four sources said on Thursday, a day after urging unity to find a way out of the c...

How climate change can fuel global instability and spark conflict

How climate change can fuel global instability and spark conflict

-- 2022-07-21 21:48:59

From record-breaking and deadly heatwaves in western Europe to a severe drought in the Horn of Africa, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly clear and concerning.But experts say insu...

Draupadi Murmu elected India's first tribal President

Draupadi Murmu elected India's first tribal President

-- 2022-07-21 20:53:26

A 64-year-old former school teacher in India scripted history on Thursday by being the youngest and first tribal politician to win the presidency. Draupadi Murmu, a former state governor who was fiel...

Biden tests Covid positive

Biden tests Covid positive

-- 2022-07-21 20:44:56

Joe Biden, the oldest person ever to serve as US president, has tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing mild symptoms and will continue working but in isolation, the White House said on Thursday...

Russia resumes gas supplies to Germany via Nord Stream 1

Russia resumes gas supplies to Germany via Nord Stream 1

-- 2022-07-21 17:25:38

Gas deliveries through the German-Russian pipeline Nord Stream 1 resumed on Thursday morning after 10 days of maintenance, the German news agency dpa reported. Gas is flowing again and the gas transp...

CIA director estimates 15,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war

CIA director estimates 15,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war

-- 2022-07-21 15:32:20

The United States estimates that Russian casualties in Ukraine so far have reached around 15,000 killed and perhaps 45,000 wounded, CIA Director William Burns said on Wednesday, adding that Ukraine ha...

Italian PM Draghi resigns after coalition falls apart

Italian PM Draghi resigns after coalition falls apart

-- 2022-07-21 14:56:22

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handed in his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday after his unity government fell apart, plunging the country into political turmoil and hitting...

Biden plans talks with China's Xi soon, casts doubt on Pelosi Taiwan trip

Biden plans talks with China's Xi soon, casts doubt on Pelosi Taiwan trip

-- 2022-07-21 11:46:36

US President Joe Biden plans to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, by the end of the month at a moment of simmering tensions between the countries over Taiwan and trade, Reuters reports...

Russia expands Ukraine war goals as fighting toll mounts

Russia expands Ukraine war goals as fighting toll mounts

-- 2022-07-21 10:14:19

Ukrainian armed forces said on Thursday they had killed 111 Russian soldiers in the south and east over the past day, as comments from Russia's foreign minister showed the Kremlin's goals had grow...

'Hasta la vista, baby,' says UK's Boris Johnson as he exits parliament

'Hasta la vista, baby,' says UK's Boris Johnson as he exits parliament

-- 2022-07-20 22:13:54

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson bowed out of his final showpiece parliamentary appearance with a round of applause from his party, jeers from opponents and an enigmatic exit line: "Mission largel...

Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss in final race to become British prime minister

Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss in final race to become British prime minister

-- 2022-07-20 21:48:33

Britain’s former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become next prime minister of the country after they won the final lawmaker vote, setting up t...

Russia expands Ukraine war goals, focuses on southern Ukraine

Russia expands Ukraine war goals, focuses on southern Ukraine

-- 2022-07-20 21:15:04

Moscow's military "tasks" in Ukraine now go beyond the eastern Donbas region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, as the Kremlin's forces shelled eastern and southern Ukraine. L...

Britain counts cost of historic heatwave as 13 die

Britain counts cost of historic heatwave as 13 die

-- 2022-07-20 20:57:34

At least 13 people have died in Britain while swimming during a spell of record-breaking hot weather that sparked wildfires, damaged train tracks and triggered warnings that efforts to tackle climate...

Mission largely accomplished, Boris Johnson says as he exits parliament

Mission largely accomplished, Boris Johnson says as he exits parliament

-- 2022-07-20 20:05:44

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson bowed out of his final showpiece parliamentary appearance with a round of applause from his party, jeers from opponents and an enigmatic exit line: "Mission largel...