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Factbox-Why did Sri Lanka's president call a snap general election?
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka will hold a parliamentary election on Nov. 14, the government announced on Tuesday, less than two months after the...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Kenyan police in plainclothes fired on Nairobi protesters, Amnesty says
NAIROBI - Kenyan police out of uniform and with no official identification fired live rounds at demonstrators at the country's parliament...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Explainer-How Germany's coalition works and could it fall apart?
BERLIN - The three parties in Germany's ruling coalition are facing increasing pressure to assert themselves following a series of...
Sep 26, 20243 min read
Exclusive-Azerbaijan offers to fund climate-vulnerable islands' delegates at COP29, source says
BRUSSELS - The government of Azerbaijan, host of this year's COP29 U.N. climate summit, has offered to cover the costs for negotiators...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Ukraine's Zelenskiy tells UN Russia must be forced into peace
UNITED NATIONS - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that the war between Russia...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Cape Town's 'bicycle mayor' helps township girls embrace cycling
CAPE TOWN - As Sindile Mavundla guided young girls on their bikes through a street in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, he said he had...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Pope Francis, back from flu, calls airstrikes on Lebanon 'unacceptable'
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called Israeli strikes on Lebanon a "terrible escalation" of the Middle East conflict on Wednesday at the end...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Bankman-Fried's ex-girlfriend Ellison gets two-year sentence over crypto fraud
NEW YORK - Former cryptocurrency executive Caroline Ellison was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison for her role in her former...
Sep 26, 20243 min read
First former Singapore minister on trial for graft pleads guilty
SINGAPORE - Singapore's former Transport Minister S. Iswaran has pleaded guilty to receiving gifts while in office, as proceedings began...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Israeli military says missile intercepted as Tel Aviv sirens sound
JERUSALEM - Warning sirens sounded in Israel's economic capital Tel Aviv on Wednesday as a single surface-to-surface missile was...
Sep 26, 20241 min read
US charges suspected Trump gunman with attempted assassination
WASHINGTON - The man accused of staking out Donald Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle was indicted on Tuesday on a charge of...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
'Fishing net': Police quotas, surveillance trap North Koreans in China
SEOUL/BEIJING - Border police in China's northeast have been given quotas to identify and expel undocumented migrants, one key aspect of...
Sep 26, 20246 min read
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