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COLOMBO – April 20 (ONLINE) Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Wednesday he expects the police to properly investigate clashes with anti-government protesters that led to the first death in weeks of civil unrest over an economic crisis. Police fired live ammunition to […]

BEIJING, Apr 20 (XINHUA/APP): The National Supervisory Commission and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Wednesday jointly released five typical cases involving individuals and organizations offering bribes. The cases were found in fields including project bidding, health care and mining. In one case in Jiangxi Province, […]

Warsaw, April 20 (AFP/APP): Four people were killed and seven more are missing following a gas explosion at a coal mine in southern Poland on Wednesday, officials said. “One of the miners injured by the methane explosion at the Pniowek mine has died in hospital,” […]

Helsinki, April 20 (AFP/APP): Finland’s parliament Wednesday will open a debate on whether to seek NATO membership, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked a surge in political and public support for joining the military alliance. Despite Russia warning of a nuclear build-up in the Baltic […]

MOSCOW – April 19 (ONLINE) Ilya Kiva, a former legislator from Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada belonging to the Opposition Platform – For Life party has said that he intends to request protection and political asylum in Russia. “I officially state that nowadays in Ukraine, the government […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 19 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Tuesday’s deadly attacks on schools in Kabul, saying assault against civilians and civilian infrastructure is a crime under international law. At least six people were killed and many more injured in the blasts which […]

ISLAMABAD, April 18 (Online): Pakistan has strongly condemned the campaign of violence and targeted attacks against Muslims by fanatic Hindu mobs in various Indian states. In a statement on Monday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said recent despicable attempt to hoist the saffron flag […]

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court in Lahore sentenced 6 murderers to death involved in Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara in December Seven sentenced to life imprisonment, while 76 people from the mob were sentenced to 2 years in jail. A first information report (FIR) was registered […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18 (AFP/APP):Russian strikes on Monday killed at least eight civilians in the embattled eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, local authorities said. Four died as they tried to escape the city of Kreminna which Russian forces captured earlier on Monday, Lugansk […]

  LHASA, Apr 18 (XINHUA/APP):More than 1.1 million folios of 3,281 ancient books and documents have been archived over the past three years at the Potala Palace in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.   The progress was announced at a relics protection conference in the […]