-- 2022-07-12 18:15:41
London's Heathrow said it would cap the number of departing passengers at 100,000 a day this summer to try to limit traveller disruptions as it struggles to cope with a rebound in demand. Airlines at...
-- 2022-07-12 17:45:08
The European Union has so far frozen 13.8 billion euros ($13.83 billion) worth of assets held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and entities sanctioned for Moscow's war against Ukraine, the bloc...
-- 2022-07-12 14:08:39
Sri Lankan immigration officials said on Tuesday they prevented the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country, as anger rises against the powerful...
-- 2022-07-12 13:02:43
Britain's new prime minister will be announced on September 5, with the first votes to begin eliminating candidates in a crowded and increasingly unpredictable and divisive contest to replace Boris Jo...
-- 2022-07-12 11:27:49
Shanghai residents queued up in sweltering heat for compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, as persistent small outbreaks fuelled anxiety in a city that is still recovering from the painful t...
-- 2022-07-12 10:01:44
Japan on Tuesday prepared to bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, a polarising figure who dominated Japanese politics for decades as the country's longest-serving premier, before being gunned down at a campaig...
-- 2022-07-12 09:53:17
In June, a few dozen activists started meeting regularly at a seaside tented camp in Colombo for hours-long sessions to think up ways to revive Sri Lanka's flagging protest movement. The group, which...
-- 2022-07-12 08:25:18
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Monday comfortably survived a motion of no-confidence brought against her by a broad alliance of left-wing opponents. An official vote count showed 146 lawmak...
-- 2022-07-11 21:00:04
Sri Lanka's parliament will reconvene on July 15 and a new president will be elected on July 20, the parliamentary speaker said on Monday, as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to resign on Wednesday...
-- 2022-07-11 20:48:56
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday expanding a fast-track procedure to receive Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians, in yet another effort to expand Moscow's influence in war-...
-- 2022-07-11 19:30:40
The race to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister has begun, with 11 candidates so far putting themselves forward for a contest which will ultimately be decided by around 200,000 Conservativ...
-- 2022-07-11 17:26:59
Ukraine plans a "million-strong army" equipped with Nato weapons to retake the south of the country from occupying Russians, the defence minister says. Retaking the areas around the Black Sea coast w...
-- 2022-07-11 16:49:33
Seventeen bodies have been recovered in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos after a boat accident that led to a frantic search for passengers, the inland waterways agency said. The commuter boat...
-- 2022-07-11 15:59:08
Japanese police have admitted there were flaws in the security for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead in the southern city of Nara on Friday. "It is undeniable that there we...
-- 2022-07-11 14:20:44
The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on Nov. 15, with India projected to surpass China as the most populous country in 2023, the United Nations (UN) said Monday, World Population Day....
-- 2022-07-11 12:43:48
TOKYO: Japan’s governing party and its coalition partner scored a major victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday imbued with meaning after the assassination of former Prime Minister Sh...
-- 2022-07-11 11:54:09
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will resign, the prime minister's office said on Monday, after tens of thousands of protesters stormed...
-- 2022-07-11 11:38:46
Myanmar's junta government is installing Chinese-built cameras with facial recognition capabilities in more cities across the country, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said, reports Re...
-- 2022-07-11 11:03:53
At least 15 people have died after a shooting at a bar in the South African (SA) township of Soweto on Sunday, according to the country's public broadcaster SABC. Several people were also injured, lo...
-- 2022-07-11 09:52:29
Ukraine's deputy prime minister on Sunday urged civilians in the Russian-occupied southern region of Kherson to urgently evacuate as Ukraine's armed forces were preparing a counter-attack there, repor...
-- 2022-07-10 22:02:33
The contest to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gathered pace on Sunday as five more candidates declared their intention to run, with many pledging lower taxes and a clean start from Johns...
-- 2022-07-10 19:27:57
Iran announced Sunday that it has begun enriching uranium up to 20 per cent using sophisticated centrifuges at its underground Fordo nuclear plant, state TV reported, an escalation that comes amid a s...
-- 2022-07-10 17:33:11
Sri Lankans roamed through the ransacked presidential palace on Sunday as calm returned to Colombo a day after protesters stormed the building and forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to agree to resig...
-- 2022-07-10 17:09:19
A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg's Soweto township has killed 15 people and left others in critical condition, according to police. Police say they are investigating reports that a group o...
-- 2022-07-10 16:12:47
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had dismissed several of Kyiv's senior envoys abroad, including the country's outspoken ambassador to Germany. Zelenskiy announced the...
-- 2022-07-10 16:03:39
At least six people have been killed and more than 30 are feared trapped after Russian Uragan rockets hit a five-storey apartment block in Ukraine's Donetsk region, leading to the building collapsing,...
-- 2022-07-10 10:32:26
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to step down, the country's parliamentary speaker said on Saturday, bowing to intense pressure after a violent day of protests in which demonstrators sto...
-- 2022-07-10 10:07:33
These are extraordinary times for Sri Lanka - after a day of fury and violence, the country's two senior leaders have agreed to step down. The news triggered jubilation at the main protest si...
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Intense floods killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan, officials said on Saturday, as heavy monsoon rains battered the country. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 p...
-- 2022-07-10 09:01:15
Japanese voters went to the polls on Sunday for an upper house election in which the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) may receive a surge of support after the assassination of former Prime Minist...
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