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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday survived a vote of no confidence in the first major test for his minority Liberal government whose popularity has waned after nine years in office.His tenuous grip on power, however, is already set to face more challenges in the coming weeks, with ...
Mexican security forces on Wednesday killed 11 gunmen after a chase and shootout in the country's northeast, authorities said, the latest in a spate of cartel-related clashes.An armed suspect was arrested and weapons and vehicles were seized, the Nuevo Leon state government said in a statement.A...
Sports,Football
Robert Lewandowski continued his fine form and earned La Liga leaders Barcelona a 1-0 win over Getafe on Wednesday.The Polish forward struck from close range in the first half to maintain Barca's 100 percent record in the league so far this season with their seventh victory.Barcelona dominated d...
Lebanon said 15 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, including two rare strikes in mountain areas outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds in the south and east.The health ministry said an Israeli strike on the village of Joun in the Chouf mountains, southeast of Beirut, killed...
Hundreds of pricey government vehicles have been abandoned around Sri Lanka's capital after the country's new Marxist-leaning president took office, a member of his party said Wednesday, with hundreds of others missing.Senior members of the former government had dumped the state-owned cars a...
France's World Cup-winning defender Raphaël Varane announced his retirement from football at the age of 31 on Wednesday, bringing down the curtain on a hugely successful career after suffering a serious knee injury. Former Real Madrid and Manchester United centre-back Varane had joined...
Manchester United and Tottenham kick off their Europa League campaigns this week, hoping to put disappointing starts to the Premier League season behind them.Erik ten Hag's United have failed to show any real improvement from a miserable season last term, sitting outside the top 10 already domes...
Pope Francis has offered to give refuge on Vatican territory to Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Italian media said on Tuesday."I asked for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and I met her son in Rome. I have proposed to the Vatican to give her shelter on our territory,"...
Business & Commerce
The International Monetary Fund is ready to discuss its controversial $2.9 billion bailout programme for Sri Lanka with the country's new government, a spokesman said.Anura Kumara Dissanayake, sworn in Monday as the country's first leftist president, has said he wants to renegotiate the deal...
Iranian authorities have announced the arrest of 12 people accused of "collaborating" with the country's arch-foe Israel, local media reported on Sunday.Revolutionary Guards "arrested 12 collaborators with the Zionist regime (Israel) in six provinces" of the Islamic republic,...
Most Asian markets rose Monday, building on last week's rally following the Federal Reserve's bumper interest rate cut, with focus now on the release of the bank's favoured inflation gauge later in the week. Traders greeted the first reduction in borrowing costs since 2020 by...
British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Monday will vow to "rebuild Britain" after 14 years of Conservative leadership, warning of "difficult decisions" in a speech at the Labour Party conference.The speech, which comes a little over a month before the ruling Labour Party's...
Sports
Daniel Dubois retained his IBF world heavyweight title with a brutal fifth-round knockout of Anthony Joshua in an all-British spectacular at Wembley on Saturday.The 27-year-old dominated the bout in front of 96,000 passionate fans, dropping the former two-time heavyweight champion multiple times.Dub...
Donald Trump on Saturday rejected a second debate against Kamala Harris before the November 5 election, saying it was "too late" with early voting already underway in some states.Earlier in the day, Harris's campaign said she had accepted an invitation from broadcaster CNN to participa...
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday he would press the case for Ukraine to use long-range missiles on targets inside Russia when he visits Washington next week.Zelensky was speaking hours after confirming that the United States and Britain had still not authorised Kyiv to ...
Severe flooding in Chad since July has claimed 503 lives and affected around 1.7 million since July, the United Nations said Saturday in its latest assessment of the disaster.The floods have also destroyed 212,111 houses, flooded 357,832 hectares (885,000 acres) of fields and drowned 69,659 heads of...
Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera said that Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order.Israel's government last week announced it was revoking the press credentials of Al Jazeera journalists in the country, four months after ban...
Nine Indian fishermen are feared dead after their trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal during a storm, an official told AFP on Sunday.The trawler had left from the Sundarbans in West Bengal on Wednesday with 17 men on board, said Surajit Bag, assistant director of fishing in the state governm...
Civil defence rescuers in Gaza City said an Israeli strike Sunday on a school-turned-shelter killed at least 7 people, with the Israeli military saying it had targeted Hamas militants.The vast majority of the besieged Gaza Strip's 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once by the war, ...
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Polls closed in Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, AFP journalists saw, ending the island nation's first vote since an unprecedented economic crisis two years ago.Voting booths closed at 4:00 pm (1030 GMT), with President Ranil Wickremesinghe facing an uphill battle to retain off...
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