Calm in Sri Lanka as president, premier to quit over economic collapse
COLOMBO, July 10(ABC): Calm returned to the streets of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo on Sunday and protesters…
At least 16 dead, dozens missing after flash flood in IIoJK
SRINAGAR, July 10(ABC): At least 16 people have been killed after sudden rains triggered flash floods during an annual Hindu…
Eid-ul-Azha being celebrated in Saudi Arabia, other Arab countries
MECCA, July 9(ABC): Eid-ul-Azha is being celebrated with religious fervour in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries on Satur…
Sri Lanka PM offers resignation after protesters storm president’s house
COLOMBO, July 9 (ABC), Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is willing to resign to make way for an all-party gover…
Shinzo Abe’s body returns to his Tokyo home as Japan mourns slain ex-PM
NARA/TOKYO, July 9(ABC): A motorcade carrying the body of former prime minister Shinzo Abe arrived at his home in the Japane…
Madame Tussauds places Boris Johnson’s wax statue outside a job centre
LONDON, July 9(ABC): After Boris Johnson was ridiculed in the British parliament where members of the Conservative Party ask…
Sri Lanka hikes interest rates, warns trouble ahead
COLOMBO, July 8(ABC): Cash-strapped Sri Lanka raised interest rates one percentage point Friday, the second sharp hike in th…
G20 ministers to meet in Bali with Ukraine top of agenda
BALI, July 8(ABC): The Group of 20 will meet in Bali Friday with the United States pushing the world s top economies to pres…
Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot, feared dead
TOKYO, July 8(ABC): Japan´s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been shot, a government spokesman said Friday, as local med…
Muslim pilgrims stream out of Mecca for hajj high point
MECCA, July 7(ABC): Hundreds of thousands of hajj pilgrims began streaming out of Mecca Thursday ahead of the highlight of t…
Evacuations as Russia advances in Ukraine’s Donbas
SLOVIANSK, July 7(ABC): The evacuation of desperate civilians from Sloviansk pressed on Wednesday as Russian troops pushed t…
Spain’s famous Bull Run festival back after 2-year hiatus
PAMPLONA, July 7(ABC): Thousands of revelers erupted in celebration Wednesday as the traditional “chupinazo” firework was ig…
Sri Lankans return to cooking with firewood as economy burns
SRI LANKA, July 7(ABC): As once relatively wealthy Sri Lanka suffers a dire economic crisis with shortages of everything fro…
Maskless pilgrims launch largest hajj of Covid era
MECCA, July 6(ABC): The biggest hajj pilgrimage since the coronavirus pandemic began kicks off Wednesday, with hundreds of t…
Fierce shelling in eastern Ukraine as NATO heralds its ‘historic’ expansion
SLOVIANSK, July 6(ABC): Fighting raged on Tuesday in and around Ukraine s eastern Donbas region as Russian troops tried to m…
Police arrest 130 suspected human traffickers in European crackdown
AMSTERDAM, July 5(ABC): Police across Europe have arrested abut 130 people suspected of inolvement in human trafficking in a…
Iran shuts three cafes in Qom over unveiled women
TEHRAN, July 5(ABC): Authorities in Iran have closed three coffee shops in the central city of Qom because female customers …
Putin orders Russians to fight on after key Ukraine city falls
SLOVIANSK, July 5(ABC): President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered Russian troops to press their offensive deeper into the D…
Saudi to hand out billions to ease inflation pain
RIYADH, July 5(ABC): Saudi Arabia announced Monday it was disbursing billions of dollars directly to citizens to ease the ef…
Six killed in shooting during US July 4 parade
HIGHLAND PARK, July 5(ABC): A shooter opened fire during a parade to mark US Independence Day in the state of Illinois, kill…
Al Jazeera reporter likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli positions, U.S. says
WASHINGTON, July 4(ABC): Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli pos…
Libya’s power cuts enrage citizens, spurring protest
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, July 4(ABC): When the power cut out in Libya s Benghazi last week, Haitham al-Ghoul dashed into the street…
UN panel urges UAE to give women equal divorce rights
GENEVA, July 4(ABC): United Nations experts on Monday urged the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to give women the same nationalit…
Shark kills 1 Austrian, 1 Romanian tourist in Egypt’s Red Sea
WEB DESK, July 4(ABC): Two women, one Austrian and the other Romanian, were killed in a shark attack this week off the coast…
Glacier collapses in Italian Alps, six dead: rescuers
WEB DESK, July 4(ABC): An avalanche sparked by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six p…
EU lending arm aims to raise 100b euros to help rebuild Ukraine
GERMANY, July 30(ABC): The European Investment Bank, the lending arm of the European Union, is proposing a funding structure…
Denmark in shock as gunman kills three at Copenhagen shopping mall
COPENHAGEN, July 4(ABC): Three people were killed and several more were wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenh…
More heavy rains set to drench Sydney as thousands evacuate
SYDNEY, July 4(ABC): Fresh evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentles…
Sri Lanka grinds to a halt as fuel reserves shrink
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has less than a day’s worth of fuel left, the energy minister said on Sunday, with public transport…
Floods hit southeast Australia, forcing evacuations
MELBOURNE, July 3(ABC): Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate southwest Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, on…
Blasts kill three in Russian city near Ukraine border
KYIV, July 3(ABC): At least three people were killed and dozens of homes damaged in the Russian city of Belgorod near the Uk…
Zelenskiy adviser concedes last eastern Ukraine bastion could fall
KYIV, July 3(ABC): Fighting intensified for Lysychansk, Ukraine’s last big bastion in the strategic eastern province o…
Indian landslide search enters third day with 25 dead
GUWAHATI, July 2(ABC): The search for survivors buried under a landslide in India’s northeast entered its third day Saturday…
New York bans guns in many public places after Supreme Court ruling
NEW YORK, July 2(ABC): New York state passed a law banning guns from many public places, including Times Square, and requiri…
Ukraine army accuses Russia of firing phosphorus bombs on Snake Island
KYIV, July 2(ABC): Ukraine’s army accused Russia of carrying out strikes using incendiary phosphorus munitions on Snake Isla…
At least five killed in magnitude 6.1 quake on Iran Gulf coast
DUBAI, July 2(ABC): At least five people were killed by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state…
Dialogue with Suu Kyi ‘not impossible’ says Myanmar junta
NAYPYIDAW, July 1(ABC): Dialogue between Myanmar s junta and ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end the bloody crisis unleash…
Muslim pilgrims flock to Mecca for first post-pandemic haj
MECCA, July 1(ABC): Thousands of pilgrims started arriving in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Friday, among some o…
India bans many single-use plastics to tackle waste
NEW DELHI, July 1(ABC): India imposed a ban on many single-use plastics on Friday in a bid to tackle waste choking rivers an…
Indian apex court declares Nupur Sharma remarks cause of Udaipur homicide
NEW DELHI, July 1(ABC): India’s Supreme Court on Friday declared the blasphemous remarks by suspended BJP leader Nupur…
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