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Factbox-What are the key challenges for Sri Lanka President Dissanayake?
COLOMBO - Sri Lankans have elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as the country's new president, giving the Marxist-leaning politician a key...
Sep 24, 20242 min read
Factbox-The racial divide in South Africa's economy
JOHANNESBURG - Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa's economy remains deeply divided by race, spurring political debate...
Sep 24, 20242 min read
Record rains in Japan's quake-stricken Noto region kill at least one
TOKYO - Record rains in central Japan's Noto region, still recovering from a major New Year's Day earthquake, killed at least one person...
Sep 24, 20241 min read
Exclusive-Iran's Guards ban communications devices after strike on Hezbollah, security officials say
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has ordered all members to stop using any type of communication devices after thousands of...
Sep 24, 20243 min read
Hezbollah, Israel exchange heavy fire in 'new phase' of fighting
BEIRUT/HAIFA, Israel - Hezbollah and Israel exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, as the Lebanese militant group sent rockets deep into...
Sep 23, 20243 min read
Israeli troops raid, order closure of Al Jazeera's West Bank bureau
DOHA - Israeli forces raided the bureau of media network Al Jazeera in the West Bank city of Ramallah early on Sunday morning, issuing it...
Sep 23, 20243 min read
At least 31 dead in Iran coal mine blast
DUBAI - A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran's South Khorasan Province killed at least 31 people and injured 16, the country's interior...
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Sri Lanka's president-elect breaks a tradition of political lineage
COLOMBO - Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist anti-poverty policies and pledge...
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Regional victory brings Germany's Scholz brief respite from growing pressure within party
BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) staved off the far-right in a regional election on Sunday, likely...
Sep 23, 20243 min read
Scholz's Social Democrats fend off far-right in German state vote, early results suggest
BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far-right in a state election in Brandenburg...
Sep 23, 20243 min read
Factbox-Austrian political parties' plans for the economy
VIENNA - Austria holds a general election on Sunday with the next government facing an economy poised to contract for a second year...
Sep 23, 20243 min read
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens freed from captivity in Indonesia's Papua
JAKARTA - New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed more than 19 months after being kidnapped by armed separatists in Indonesia's...
Sep 22, 20242 min read
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