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The entire Cabinet of Ministers, including Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned hours after protests erupted in Colombo, its suburbs and several other parts of the country. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Local Government members and their henchmen attacked those who had been demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Cabinet of Ministers, including […]

Adeal on European Union-wide halting of oil imports from Russia by the end of the year, the latest response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, could be secured as soon as this week, a French official said Tuesday. A view of PCK oil refinery in Schwedt, Germany, May 9, 2022. (EPA Photo) The embargo, part of […]

MOSCOW, May 10. /TASS/. Russian forces have eliminated 163 Ukrainian combat aircraft, 124 helicopters, 793 unmanned aerial vehicles and 2,979 tanks and other armored vehicles since the start of their special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday. © Vadim Savitsky/TASS “Overall, the following targets have been destroyed […]

The peace talks with Russia are the story of how Ukraine has gone from despair to realising its own strength and its circle of true allies over 70 days of full-scale war. “If on the first day of the war we had been allowed to sign a version of the peace agreement like the one […]

TEHRAN — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made an unannounced visit to Iran on Sunday morning and met with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi. This is the second time that Assad visits Tehran since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011. According to the Leader’s office, […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at Western countries and hailed Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine on Monday as he addressed an annual military parade in Moscow that marks the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. “You are fighting for the motherland, for her future, and so that nobody forgets the lessons of World War […]

KHARKIV – As the small convoy of journalists rounded a bend outside Kharkiv, two dark-green Ukrainian howitzers could be seen on a hill, etched against the warm blue May sky. A little while later, they vanished, likely moved to another location to continue the ongoing artillery battle against the Russians near Ukraine’s second-largest city just […]

Russia will mark Monday the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazism amid expectations that ongoing fighting in Ukraine will cast a long shadow over the popular event. In particular, the set piece military parade on Moscow’s Red Square will see significantly fewer soldiers and equipment compared to last year, which experts have linked to significant losses […]

North Korea has launched a presumed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) toward the East Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confirmed on Saturday, its second missile test in less than a week. What appeared to be four new Pukguksong-class submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) were rolled out on truck trailers on April 25, 2022, North […]

Ukrainian authorities fear up to 60 people sheltering in a school in Luhansk region may have been killed in a Russian strike on the building. It comes as the World Health Organisation announced it was collecting evident in Ukraine of possible war crimes committed by Russian forces against medical facilities. Emergency crew tend to a […]