Lankan crisis: Ruling party MP dies in clash with anti-govt protesters
MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala opened fire and critically wounded two people blocking his car in Nittambuwa, and was later found dead after trying to take...
EU chief proposes "phasing out Russian oil in orderly fashion"
4 May 2022The EU chief said the block would ask its 27 member states to deny Sberbank, Russia's biggest bank, access to SWIFT, the global banking communications...
North Korea fires ballistic missile: Seoul
4 May 2022The Wednesday missile launch is the latest in a series of military provocations the nuclear-armed North Korea has carried out this year.
Italy's top court gives mothers equal name rights
29 April 2022The highest court in the country said existing norms are unconstitutional, "discriminatory and detrimental to the identity of the child", and called...
"Brilliant Victory": France's Far-Right Leader After Defeat To Macron
25 April 2022French far-right leader Marine Le Pen promised to "carry on" her political career and vowed that she would "never abandon" the French.
Two shot dead in car speeding towards cops in Paris: Report
25 April 2022The incident came just hours after French President Emmanuel Macron won re-election, defeating challenger Marine Le Pen in a race that saw the...
France's Emmanuel Macron wins second term, defeats far-right leader
25 April 2022Macron's projected victory caused immense relief in Europe after fears that a Le Pen presidency would leave the continent rudderless.
Covid pill shows rapid clearance of virus, says Japan pharma firm
24 April 2022The pill, S-217622, "demonstrated rapid clearance of the infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus", Shionogi said in a statement, citing Phase-2b results from the...