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Many Sri Lankans flee capital as political leaders meet to seek solution to crisis
Many Sri Lankans thronged buses in the main city Colombo on Thursday to return to their hometowns with leaders of political parties ...Russians ‘pushed away from Kharkiv’ as Washington warns of long war
Russian troops are being pushed away from Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, but sounded a note of caution as ...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 ...Global scramble for metals thrusts Africa into mining spotlight
The need to secure new sources of metals for the energy transition amid sanctions on top producer Russia has increased the Africa ...














