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Colombo, March 15 (AFP/APP): Sri Lanka deployed armed troops as trade unions crippled hospitals, ports and banks on Wednesday to protest against high-income taxes imposed as a precondition for a crucial IMF bailout. Schools cancelled term tests and outpatient departments at hospitals closed due to […]

Moscow, March 14 (AFP/APP):Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Tuesday of fomenting “years of confrontation” in the Asia-Pacific region after the AUKUS alliance agreed to a nuclear-powered submarines deal. “The Anglo-Saxon world, with the creation of structures like AUKUS and with the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (APP):UN-appointed human rights experts in Myanmar have urged social media companies to do more to resist the military junta’s “online campaign of terror”. In an appeal to internet chat platforms to monitor content more carefully and allocate sufficient resources to do […]

Washington, March 13 (AFP/APP): President Joe Biden meets on Monday with the leaders of Australia and Britain at a California naval base for an expected announcement of a nuclear submarines deal aimed at strengthening Western military muscle in the face of a rising China. Australian […]

Tehran, March 12 (AFP/APP): Iran’s judiciary on Sunday confirmed a death sentence for a Swedish-Iranian dissident for “terrorism”. Habib Chaab has been held in Iran since October 2020 as Iran does not recognise dual nationality. Chaab, convicted of “corruption on earth” for heading a rebel […]

Los Angeles, March 12 (AFP/APP): At least eight people were killed when two suspected smuggling boats capsized off the coast of southern California, rescuers said Sunday. “We lost eight souls,” the lifeguard chief for the city of San Diego, James Gartland, told a press conference. […]

WASHINGTON 12 MARCH (Online): US Congressman Brad Sherman has raised concerns over what he said was the continuous violation of human rights and democracy in Pakistan and called on the government to ensure freedom of speech and the application of rule of law in the […]

ISLAMABAD, Mar 11 (APP): The recurrent incidents of uranium thefts and smuggling in India have highlighted the alarming poor security arrangement of the Indian nuclear programme. The theft of nuclear material over the last two decades in India posed a serious threat of nuclear terrorism, […]

BEIJING 10 Mar (Online): Xi Jinping on Friday secured a precedent-breaking third five-year term as China’s president as he tightens his grip as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Nearly 3,000 members of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), voted unanimously […]

HAMBURG 10 Mar (Online): A gunman believed to have been acting alone killed several people on Thursday in a Jehovah’s Witness church in the German city of Hamburg, police said, as they focused their investigation on the motive for the attack. Police declined to say […]