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Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:46:08 GMT
Fleeing Sri Lankan president's cash in court, succession battle begins
Protesters discovered 17.85 million rupees (about $50,000) in crisp new banknotes but turned it over to police following Saturday's storming of the Presidential palace. "The cash was taken over by the police and will be produced in court today," a ...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:30:14 GMT
Russia's war on Ukraine: 'What Ukraine has done has been nothing short of remarkable'
Russian troops pursued their "relentless" shelling of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region as Ukrainian officials warned Moscow was preparing for further attacks and Washington promised new military aid to Kyiv. Having endured long battles to capture ci...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:18:12 GMT
England flanker Underhill out of third Wallabies Test
Underhill only played in the second Test at Brisbane, that England won 25-17, after Tom Curry returned home after a head knock in a bruising first match at Perth where the Wallabies triumphed 30-28. He joins Maro Itoje on the sidelines with the big...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:12:10 GMT
Mehidy shines in 'ideal conditions' as Bangladesh stop rot
Shoriful Islam's haul of four for 34, his best in ODIs, limited the West Indies to 149 for nine batting first in a fixture reduced to 41 overs-per-side before Mahmudullah's unbeaten 41 saw the visitors to the target with more than nine overs to spar...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:06:10 GMT
Ex-Trump advisor Bannon agrees to testify at Capitol riot hearings: reports
"Mr. Bannon is willing to, and indeed prefers, to testify at your public hearing," his lawyer Robert Costello wrote in a letter to the House Select Committee on Saturday, which was initially reported by The Guardian and cited by US media. Bannon wa...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:12:10 GMT
Kiribati quits key Pacific island bloc
The central Pacific nation of 120,000 people said it had taken "the sovereign decision" to withdraw from the 51-year-old, Fiji-based Pacific Islands Forum "with immediate effect". In a July 9 letter obtained by AFP, Kiribati President Taneti Maamau...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:08:10 GMT
Unification Church says Abe shooting suspect's mother is member
Police investigating Tetsuya Yamagami on suspicion of murder have said he targeted Abe because he believed he was linked to a particular group, without naming the organisation. Local media described the group as religious and said Yamagami resented...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:04:09 GMT
Fleeing Rajapaksa's cash handed to Sri Lankan police
Protesters discovered 17.85 million rupees (about $50,000) in crisp new banknotes but turned it over to police following Saturday's storming of the Presidential palace. "The cash was taken over by the police and will be produced in court today," a ...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 06:54:11 GMT
Chandimal passes 150 as Sri Lanka extend lead over Australia
The hosts were 499 for eight at the interval in Galle after opening batsman Pathum Nissanka was ruled out with Covid-19, becoming their sixth Sri Lanka player to get the virus during the past two weeks. Sri Lanka resumed their first innings on 431-...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:30:09 GMT
World population to reach 8 billion on November 15, United Nations says
The world's population is expected to reach eight billion on November 15, the UN forecast Monday in a report that said India will surpass China as the most populous country on earth in 2023.

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:26:16 GMT
Europe frets over reduced Russia gas supplies
The annual work on the two pipelines was scheduled long in advance. The fear is however that -- with relations between Russia and the West at their lowest in years because of the invasion of Ukraine -- Gazprom might take the opportunity to simply sh...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:20:25 GMT
Austria and Hungary fight nature to stop lake vanishing
The salt lake and its marshes -- the largest of its kind in Europe and a UNESCO world heritage site -- could soon run completely dry, and locals are worried. The lake, only an hour from Vienna, last dried up in the 1860s yet was naturally replenish...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:16:15 GMT
Ukrainian students seeking new lives in Taiwan see parallels in Russia, China
She is among the eight young Ukrainians who recently arrived in central Taichung city to study on full scholarships, drawn by Taiwan's democracy and a sense of kinship born of living under the constant threat of invasion from a much bigger, increasi...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:05:37 GMT
Live: Dozens feared trapped after deadly Russian strike on Ukraine apartment building
Rescuers picked through the rubble of an apartment building in eastern Ukraine searching for two dozen people, including a child, feared trapped after a Russian rocket strike on the five-storey building killed 18 people. Follow the day’s eventsÂ...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:04:11 GMT
Kiribati quits key Pacific island bloc
The central Pacific nation of 120,000 people said it had taken "the sovereign decision" to withdraw from the 51-year-old, Fiji-based Pacific Islands Forum "with immediate effect". In a July 9 letter obtained by AFP, Kiribati President Taneti Maamau...



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