Politics
Sri Lanka’s president warns of racial tension amid economic crisis
Sri Lanka’s president urged citizens on Wednesday to reject what he called attempts to foment racial and religious disharmony, as clashes broke ...Ukraine war fuels food crisis in distant Africa
Zimbabwean security guard Edwin Dapi was already struggling to provide for his wife and four children before a conflict 11,000 km (6,800 ...Missiles pound Ukraine’s Odesa as Russian forces storm Mariupol steel works
Buildings in Odesa lay in ruins on Tuesday, a day after Kremlin forces pounded the southern Ukrainian port with missiles and Russian ...Ecuador’s latest prison riot leaves at least 43 dead
Dozens of inmates were killed during a riot early on Monday as rival gangs clashed in a jail in the Ecuadorean city ...Curfew in Sri Lanka after day of deadly unrest
Sri Lanka deployed thousands of troops and police Tuesday to enforce a curfew after five people were killed in the worst violence ...Russia marks Soviet WW2 victory as Ukraine decries school bombing
Kremlin forces bombed a village school in eastern Ukraine killing about 60 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as Russia prepared to mark ...Costa Rica’s new president takes office, vows to tackle debt
New Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves vowed to keep up with payments to relieve years of mounting debt in his inaugural address ...Dozens feared dead after Russian bomb hits school
As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern ...Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces again
Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past ...Diplomatic efforts seek to save Ukraine fighters in Mariupol, Zelenskiy says
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said diplomatic efforts were underway to save the remaining fighters holed up inside the Azovstal steelworks in the ...