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Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after president flees

Shawdesh Desk; Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared an indefinite nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the prime minister’s office said. “Since the president

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Most Democrats don’t want Biden in 2024, new poll shows

Shawdesh Desk: US President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent of Democratic voters saying they would prefer a new standard-bearer

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Sri Lankan protesters find millions of rupees from Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house amid economic turmoil

Shawdesh Desk: COLOMBO: Protesters who stormed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house on Saturday amid the country’s worst economic crisis claimed to have recovered a large sum of money from the mansion,

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Sri Lankan President’s whereabouts still not known as protesters continue to occupy his home

Shawdesh Desk: The anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka on Sunday continued to occupy the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, a day after they stormed into the

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Shinzo Abe killing: Security was flawed, Japan police say

Shawdesh Desk: Japanese police have admitted there were flaws in the security for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead in the southern city of Nara on

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Global Covid cases top 558 million

Shawdesh Desk: The overall number of Covid cases has now surpassed 558 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. According to the

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Former Japan PM Abe killed in shooting: media

Shawdesh Desk: 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

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Ukraine estimates cost of reconstruction at $750 bn

Ukraine told an international conference Monday that it will cost an estimated $750 billion to rebuild the war-shattered country, a task President Volodymyr Zelensky said was the shared duty of

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