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Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the prime minister’s office said. “Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s spokesman Dinouk Colombage told […]
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two prominent and powerful football figures, have been acquitted of fraud in a Swiss court. The case is centered on a £1.6 million payment made by Blatter to Platini in 2011. Blatter, a former FIFA president, and Platini, his vice, were both found not guilty of fraud at […]
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was in grave condition on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man with what appeared to be a homemade gun opened fire. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the shooting in the western city of Nara in the […]
The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has resigned as Conservative leader, amid the UK government crisis. The government woke up to more ministerial resignations on Thursday, after 40 ministers quit the BBC reports. Pressure piled on Johnson as New Education Secretary Michelle Donelan and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis, resigned. Ministers Helen Whately, Damian […]
The women’s European Championship got under way with pre-game fireworks for a tournament record crowd but there was little sparkle from hosts England as they laboured to a 1-0 win over Austria at Old Trafford on Wednesday. The crowd of 68,871 was the largest for a European Championship game, beating the previous best of […]
Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, will resign on Thursday following pressure from members of his government. Several ministers had resigned from the government, citing a loss of trust in Johnson. The resignations followed the latest scandal to engulf Johnson’s government his handling of the concerns raised over Chris Pincher, deputy chief whip, over allegations […]
Afghan authorities struggled on Thursday to reach a remote area hit by an earthquake that killed some 1,000 people but poor communications and a lack of proper roads hampered their efforts, officials said, as the country’s supreme leader pleaded with the international community for help. The magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck early on Wednesday […]
A powerful earthquake struck Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province early on Wednesday, killing at least 255 people and injuring hundreds more, state-run media said. Afghanistan’s state-run Bakhtar news agency reported the death toll and said rescuers were arriving by helicopter. The news agency’s director-general, Abdul Wahid Rayan, wrote on Twitter that 90 houses have […]
No fewer than three persons were hospitalised after an airplane caught fire when it landed at Miami International Airport on Tuesday. According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, the plane was carrying 126 passengers and 11 crew members at the time of the crash. A video shared online showed passengers screaming as they rushed out […]
Police in Majorca has launched an investigation after one of Cristiano Ronaldo’s most expensive cars was involved in an accident on the island. Ronaldo’s £1.7m Bugatti Veyron, one of two cars the Manchester United star had shipped to Majorca for his summer holiday, reportedly crashed into a wall in the residential estate of […]
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