As Sri Lanka is suffering from a severe economic crisis, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday called upon the international community to help Sri Lanka meet the essential requirements of medicines, food supplies, and fuel to overcome the issue.
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Breaking his silence over the current global meltdown, Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said the recession the world is now experiencing owing to multiple macro-economic factors could last up to 18 months.
Monkeypox cases have risen to 200 globally, as more cases have been reported and spread across 20 countries
Moscow pressed the West to lift sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, seeking to shift the blame for a growing food crisis that has been worsened by Kyiv’s inability to ship millions of tons of grain and other agricultural products due to the conflict.
A student in the US state of Texas was caught with firearms outside a high school a day after a deadly shooting at a school in Uvalde killed 19 students and two teachers, media reports said on Wednesday (local time).
Twenty-five people were killed in a police operation conducted in a favela, or marginal neighbourhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian authorities said.
The US Geological Survey said a magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook southern Peru on Thursday, though there were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
A Spanish court has dismissed an appeal from Colombian singer Shakira and ratified a prior decision, which saw sufficient evidence to send her to stand trial over alleged tax fraud, a court document showed on Thursday. Prosecutors claim the Hips Don’t Liesinger failed to pay up to 14.5 million euros ($15.54 million) in tax on income earned between 2012 and 2014.
Eleven newborn babies have perished in a hospital fire blamed on an electrical short circuit in Senegal’s western city of Tivaouane, authorities said Thursday.