Sri Lanka’s nationwide electricity failure on the 17th began with the sudden loss of 187 megawatts of power from the first generating unit of the Lakvijaya coal-fired power station in Norochcholai, according
Violent disorder erupted across several cities in the United Kingdom on Saturday, marking the country’s most widespread rioting in the past 13 years. The unrest follows the murder of three girls in
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In a fiery address at a cultural event on Sunday, Hossein Taeb, former head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Intelligence Organization, vowed a surprising retaliatory response against Israel for the assassination
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Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday that Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by a “short-range projectile loaded with an almost 7-kg warhead.” “In view of the conducted
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The European Union (EU) is putting together a two-step plan to counter the possible negative impact of a universal import tax Donald Trump is planning to introduce if he gets re-elected as
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Sabah Akil, a 60-year-old woman displaced from a Lebanese border village to the southern city of Nabatieh, is busy washing, squeezing, and boiling a large quantity of tomatoes to make molasses in
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by Abdul Haleem As a symbol of pride and a means to compete in the national game buzkashi, or goat grabbing, many people in Afghanistan keep horses to vie for the traditional
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Vietnamese President To Lam has been elected as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, according to a press conference here on Saturday. Lam was unanimously supported at
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Weeks of deadly protests in Bangladesh have triggered a bold new strategy from critics, who are urging the country’s vast diaspora to halt the flow of foreign remittances. This move aims to
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s five-day visit to China is expected to open new chapters in the country’s relations with Italy, Maria Rosa Azzolina, president of the Italy-China Institute said in an
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Cambodia and China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday expressed their commitment to further boost trade and investment cooperation. The pledge was made during a meeting held at the Peace
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Among tens of millions tonnes of inorganic phosphorus fertilizers used every year in the world, only 12.6 percent is absorbed by plants, with the majority stored in soils, according to a recent
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On Wednesday, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah confirmed that Israeli forces killed a top commander, Fouad Shukur, in a rare strike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik. The attack, which occurred
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The death toll in Tuesday’s multiple landslides in India’s southern state of Kerala further rose to 95, with more than 110 people injured, a local police officer told Xinhua over phone. At
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A fundamental rights petition (SC/FR/221/2024) was filed in the Supreme Court today (July 30) by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) calling for action against the procedural violations and abuse of public trust
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Hussein Ali Saeed, an 81-year-old resident, has spent his entire life in Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq renowned for its abundant oil reserves. As this retired Iraqi oil worker sees it,
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