Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as interim president before the chief justice on Friday. Wickremesinghe was sworn in following the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Earlier, Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, announced the official resignation of President Rajapaksa, and that Prime Minister Ranil...
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No fewer than 12 people were killed in a Russian missile attack in the centre of the western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, according to the authorities. Another 90 people were injured police chief, Ihor Klymenko, announced on Facebook on Thursday. According to the report, three rockets hit an office...
Sri Lanka’s Department of Government Information on Thursday said that a curfew has been declared in the Colombo district from noon on Thursday till 5.00 a.m. on Friday. This followed clashes between protesters and security forces a day earlier. Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday declared a...
Political tensions remained high in Sri Lanka on Thursday as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa failed to submit his promised resignation letter to the speaker of parliament. Speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced that he had still not received a letter of resignation from Rajapaksa on Thursday, in spite having received assurances...
South African police have launched a manhunt for suspects who stole a boxing belt donated to Nelson Mandela by US champion Sugar Ray Leonard. The world champion belt, worth about $3,000 (£2,500), had been on display at the Mandela House museum in Soweto. Police spokesperson Col Dimakatso Sello told...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been appointed as the acting president of the country, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana announced on Wednesday. Abeywardena in a statement broadcast over television said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who left the country earlier in the day, had given the authority for Wickremesinghe to...
U.S. President Joe Biden is set to kick off his first visit to the Middle East since he assumed office 18 months ago when he arrives in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Talks with Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, President Isaac Herzog and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu are scheduled as well...
Sri Lanka’s embattled president flew out of his country early Wednesday, in a probable prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests over the island nation’s worst-ever economic crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday and clear the way for a “peaceful transition...
Former British Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch, has launched a bid to become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party, a declaration that has continued to attract public endorsements. Ms Badenoch, who was born Olukemi Olufunto in Wimbledon, London to parents of Nigerian...
The UN has announced that the world’s population is expected to reach eight billion on Nov. 15. The information is in a statement released on Monday in New York by the UN to mark the 2022 World Population Day (WPD). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that WPD...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) disclosed on Monday that at least 1.5 million livestock have died across drought-affected parts of Ethiopia. “Many regions in Ethiopia are currently experiencing one of the most severe La Nina-induced droughts in recent decades. “More than eight million people are acutely food insecure,...
South African police minister Bheki Cele said on Monday that the police discovered more than 130 empty cartridges of AK47 at the scene of Sunday’s random shooting in Johannesburg, where 15 people were killed and eight people injured. This means the assailants meant “business of killing,” he told community...
The President Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled his official residence. On Saturday, thousands of protesters stormed the home as they continued their demand for his resignation. The President was hurriedly transported to the Army headquarters hours before the invasion. Sri Lankan military personnel joined the demonstrators who broke police barricades...
Elon Musk pulled the plug on his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on Friday, accusing the company of “misleading” statements about the number of fake accounts, a regulatory filing showed. Musk terminating the deal that he inked in April to buy the social media giant sets the stage...
United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres and U.S. President,Joe Biden, have paid tributes to a former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated on Friday. Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader, was shot from behind while speaking at a campaign event in the western city of Nara. The...
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who ruled Angola with an iron fist for 38 years, died Friday at a hospital in Barcelona after suffering cardiac arrest, the government said. With “great pain and consternation” the Luanda government posted on Facebook confirmation of the Dos Santos’ death at 11:10 am (1010...
Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe died in hospital on Friday, local media reported, hours after being shot at a political campaign event in an attack condemned as “absolutely unforgivable”. Citing a senior member of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, national broadcaster NHK said “former prime minister Abe died at...
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday while delivering a speech ahead of a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fired at him from behind. The former prime minister collapsed and showed no sign of life...
Accra – Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed these would the first such infections recorded in the country. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. Preliminary analysis of...
Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on on a caretaker basis until his successor was chosen. Bowing to the inevitable as more than 50...