Protesters have stormed the office of Sri Lanka’s prime minister as police use tear gas on crowds. A nationwide state of emergency has been declared by...
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The president of Sri Lanka has fled the country after protesters stormed his home and office amid a three-month economic crisis. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...
The Sri Lankan president’s brother and former finance minister has been stopped from leaving the country, immigration officials said, as anger mounts...
Thousands of people lined up for hours in Colombo’s midday sun for an unprecedented glimpse of one of the most powerful buildings in the country, the...
People swimming in the president of Sri Lanka’s pool say they will remain at the official residence in Colombo until Gotabaya Rajapaksa finally leaves...
The Kagarlytskyi family narrowly escaped Russian occupation in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin. After three months on the run, moving from one place to another...
Sri Lankans are roaming through the ransacked presidential palace a day after it was stormed by thousands of people angry at the country’s worst economic...
Gunmen have shot dead 15 people and injured nine others in a tavern in the South African township of Soweto, police said. Armed with rifles and pistols, the...
Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka have broken through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence, news reports have said. In one...
Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka have broken through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence. In one of the biggest anti...
The moment Mykhailo Orlovskyi was taken by Russian forces was captured on his own dashcam. He can be seen being driven away by soldiers on top of an armoured...
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while giving a speech in the western city of Nara, state broadcaster NHK said. His death...
Weapons supplied by the West are starting to have an impact on the war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Ukrainian fighters are making “tangible...
The heads of MI5 and the FBI have used an unprecedented joint speech to warn that China is their biggest “game-changing challenge”, with the...
The boss of OPEC – the powerful cartel that represents many of the world’s biggest oil producers – has died at the age of 63. Mohammad...
Rescuers have found body parts in the search for hikers missing after a powerful avalanche killed at least seven people in Italy. Officials initially feared 13...