US President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Lapid sign joint declaration during meeting in Jerusalem. United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid have reiterated their anti-Iran positions in a joint declaration committing to preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The two leaders signed the statement earlier after…
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives in Singapore after fleeing Sri Lanka amid protests over an economic crisis. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has submitted a letter of resignation to the speaker of Sri Lanka’s parliament, a spokesperson for the speaker said, hours after he fled to Singapore. The announcement triggered jubilation in the commercial…
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Billions of dollars a year in corruption by British America Tobacco. The British American Tobacco Company is selling old-priced packs of cigarettes at new prices. After increasing the price in the budget, it has been making more profit by selling old cigarettes at a higher price for a month; At…
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Japan has witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of grief and sadness for former prime minister Shinzo Abe who was assassinated in the city of Nara on Friday. The country has seen nothing like it since the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989. Abe, the country’s longest serving post-war prime minister, inspired…
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Protesters occupying government buildings say they will remain until the president and PM step down. Following months of economic, political, and social turbulence in Sri Lanka, thousands of protesters stormed key government buildings in the capital Colombo on Saturday, including the official residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Protesters later set…
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This is the horrifying moment former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe was shot dead during a political rally Friday. Eyewitness videos posted online show the 67-year-old political giant calmly giving a campaign speech in the western city of Nara when a cloud of smoke emerges after the boom of an initial shot. Abe and…
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For the past 10 days, India’s leading fact-checker and journalist Mohammed Zubair, who recently spotlighted the ruling party spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s controversial comments against the Prophet Muhammad, has spent most of his time shuttling between prisons and courts. Since his arrest, he has been moved around by the police in…
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Police say suspect bore a grudge against a ‘specific organisation’ and believed Abe was part of it. The suspected killer of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted targeting the politician and said he held a grudge against an organisation he believed Abe was connected to, police have said. Senior…
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US president is under pressure to safeguard abortion rights after Supreme Court overturned landmark Roe v Wade ruling. US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that his administration says will help secure access to abortion and reproductive health services in the United States, two weeks after the country’s…
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After the latest in a series of scandals prompted a rebellion by members of his Conservative Party, Mr. Johnson said he would step down. He plans to remain as prime minister until a successor is chosen. LONDON — Boris Johnson said on Thursday that he would step down as Britain’s…
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