Ranil Wickremesinghe a six-time prime minister, is a seasoned politician with wide experience in diplomatic and international affairs.
Small groups of Taliban fighters have been marking the anniversary of taking power in Afghanistan last year, in an environment that has drastically reduced women’s participation in all daily life, including education, media, and government positions.
Hollywood actor plans to run for senator with Eurosceptic party ISP, saying she is ‘fed up with quarrelling politicians’
The European Athletics Championships get underway in Munich on Monday, with Britain’s athletes continuing what has been a mammoth summer off the back of the World Championships and Commonwealth Games. The newly-crowned world champion over 1500m called the Commonwealth Games the least enjoyable championships of his career as he struggled to get motivated after his shock Oregon success and had to settle for bronze.
The 27-year-old shared the revelation on Monday’s Lorraine
Their campaign began in northern Mali a decade ago, advanced into the country's powder-keg centre and from there into neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso.
An 11-year-old boy was left with injuries to his face after being attacked by a dog in playing fields, police have said. The boy was bitten and scratched on his cheek and needed hospital treatment. Police said the attack happened at playing fields off Chester Road and Canterbury Way at around 2.15pm.
Their pledges came ahead the candidates heading to Perth to face Tory members at an official hustings on Tuesday.
No more than 100,000 travellers will be able to depart per day until October 29, the west London airport said.
Malaysia’s top court has ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak to begin his final appeal after rejecting his request to throw out his graft conviction and 12-year sentence over potential judicial bias
Ariel footage shows a heart-shaped magma flowing from Icelandic volcano, following an eruption from a new fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula, around 35 miles from the capital city of Reykjavic, the eruption has been ongoing from the 3rd August 2022.PA
An adorable show pig in Henryetta, Oklahoma, was given a “princess” makeover recently, with a video of the process taken by her owners and shared to TikTok on August 9.Footage taken by Alison Salyer shows one of her show pigs getting a makeover to become a pig “princess” as she puts it.Salyer explained that she and her sister raise show pigs and work together to film “cute and funny videos” of them. Credit: Alison Salyer via Storyful
England play South Africa in the first Test of a three-match series at Lord's from Wednesday, pitting their wits against the Proteas after a stunning start to life under new captain Ben Stokes.
“Oh my stars and bless her heart, she is that dumb y’all,” Tennessee Democrat tweets
The ex-Manchester United star has been giving evidence in his defence for the first time.
Some 982 under-18s were referred to crisis care teams in May 2022, an increase of 37 per cent on the previous month
Impact of ‘traumatic period’ still lingers with those now based in UK – and their families – 75 years on
Mr Johnson, who took a holiday earlier this month, is now on another break.
Since 2018, the FRANCE 24 Observers team has been sharing tips for helping you to verify images that circulate online yourself. In this guide, we’ll explain how to avoid falling into online traps – whether they involve photos or videos taken out of context or ones that have been actually doctored. We’ll keep updating this guide, to keep you up to date on verification tools available for public use.
KYIV (Reuters) -Explosions shook an ammunition depot in Russian-annexed Crimea on Tuesday, the latest such incident in a region used by Moscow as a staging post for its war in Ukraine. The Russian Defence Ministry said there were no serious casualties from the blasts in the northern Crimean village of Mayskoye, state-owned news agency RIA reported. The Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea, which Russia seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014 in a move not recognised by most countries, is the base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and popular in the summer as a holiday resort.
A system of subsidies would cut carbon, boost farmers income and would increase wild bird populations by 50% by 2050, Green Alliance says.
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