WORLD NEWS
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316Liz Truss to be Britain’s next PM, defeats Indian-origin Rishi Sunak
Liz Truss has been named leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain’s next prime minister on Monday, taking power at a time...
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337‘This is it, folks’, Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to offer resignation to queen
Johnson said his policies had given the country the economic strength to help people weather the energy crisis before he signed off...
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Liz Truss Is New UK Prime Minister, Defeats Rishi Sunak by over 20,000 Votes
Liz Truss was not the favourite to win the elections in the initial stages but now as PM she faces major challenges...
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3116.8-magnitude earthquake in China’s Sichuan kills at least seven; strongest to hit province since 2013
The epicentre of earthquake was at the town of Luding at a depth of 16 km (10 miles), about 226 km southwest...
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336Blast at Russian Embassy in Kabul; 2 staff and 1 civilian dead
On Monday, a bomb outside the Russian Diplomatic in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, killed two embassy employees and at least one...
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282Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif to audit flood relief fund to ensure ‘transparency’
Taking to Twitter, the prime minister said that the decision was made as he made a commitment to ensure transparency. Pakistan Prime...
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419Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns two months after fleeing country
Sri Lanka’s ousted ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns home from Thailand after 7 weeks. He was accorded a warm welcome as he returned...
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356Myanmar junta sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to jail for electoral fraud
Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday was sentenced to three years in jail with hard labor after a court...
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312Russian President Vladimir Putin WON’T attend Mikhail Gorbachev’s funeral, says Kremlin
A farewell ceremony for Mikhail Gorbachev, which will be open to the public, is due to take place on Saturday, followed by...
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246Relief for Sri Lanka! IMF provisionally agrees on $2.9 billion loan for crisis-hit island nation
IMF staff and the Sri Lankan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to support Sri Lanka’s economic policies with a 48-month arrangement...
