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Russian gas cut to Europe hits economic hopes, Ukraine reports attacks on coastal regions
Russia said it will cut gas supplies to Europe from Wednesday in a blow to countries that have backed Ukraine, while missile ...China launches second space station module, Wentian
China on Sunday launched the second of three modules to its permanent space station, in one of the final missions needed to ...WHO declares global health emergency over monkeypox outbreak
The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization’s highest level of alert, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom ...Sri Lanka PM Wickremesinghe sworn in as acting president
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the country’s acting president on Friday, a government official said. Wickremesinghe had ...Sri Lanka protest sites calm as president’s resignation awaited
Sri Lanka’s main city, Colombo, was calm on Thursday as people waited for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled to ...Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives as street protests end clan dominance
urs before he was due to step down after a people’s uprising over a devastating economic crisis ended his family’s powerful grip ...Sri Lanka prime minister’s office confirms president to resign after protests
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will resign, the prime minister’s office said on Monday, ...Sri Lanka protesters storm president’s house after clashing with police
Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence on Saturday in ...Japanese mourn ex-PM Shinzo Abe a day after his assassination
A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in the western city ...Shinzo Abe, Japan’s former prime minister, assassinated at a campaign stop
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, ...














