Sri Lanka PM Rajapaksa to resign as fears of govt shutdown grow
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will resign from his post, his son said on Friday, in a move that will force ...
Ministers work around the clock to strengthen global climate deal
Katowice, Poland : Ministers are working around the clock to complete and strengthen the rules for making a landmark agreement to ...
Sacking of Sri Lanka parliament illegal: Supreme Court
Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that President Maithripala Sirisena’s sacking of parliament last month was ...
Yemen’s warring parties agree Hodeida ceasefire at UN talks
UN chief Antonio Guterres announced Thursday a series of breakthroughs in peace talks with the warring parties in Yemen, including a ...
Arctic’s record warming driving ‘broad change’ in environment: study
Global warming is heating the Arctic at a record pace, driving broad environmental changes across the planet, including extreme ...
Time ‘Person of Year’ goes to journalists, including imprisoned Reuters pair
NEW YORK : Time magazine on Tuesday named a group of journalists, including a slain Saudi Arabian writer and a pair of Reuters ...
May tours Europe in desperate bid to save Brexit deal
Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May embarked on a tour of European capitals on Tuesday in a desperate bid to salvage her ...
Macron promises minimum wage hike
Paris , Dec 11 : In the aftermath of the violent ‘yellow vest’ protests that rocked France lately, President Emmanuel ...
Ukraine to terminate Friendship treaty with Russia
Kiev [Ukraine], Dec 11: Ukraine has decided to terminate the 1997 Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty in the wake of the Kerch Strait ...
Armenian PM wins snap vote by landslide
Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections, results showed ...