Sri Lanka’s former President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday apologised to the country’s minority Catholic community for the devastating 2019 Easter Sunday bombings...
A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with worshippers during afternoon prayers on Monday in the high-security...
Sri Lanka’s overall economic growth in 2022 was minus 11 per cent and it could be – 3.5 to – 4 per...
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan accused ex-president Asif Ali Zardari of paying terrorists as part of a new plan to assassinate...
Pakistan said on Thursday that no backchannel talks were being held between Islamabad and New Delhi. “At this moment, there is no...
The Facebook and Instagram accounts of former US President Donald Trump will be reinstated by Meta after a ban of two years,...
Chris Hipkins, 44, has been sworn in as the 41st Prime Minister of New Zealand on Wednesday, reported New Zealand’s public broadcaster...
United States President Joe Biden called on Congress to “act quickly” over the “Assault Weapons Ban” as California witnessed two mass shootings...
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has apologised to the nation for the inconvenience caused by the countrywide power outage that plunged millions...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a video conversation with the soldiers stationed along the India-China border in eastern Ladakh and inspected...
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