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s European Union leaders continue to push for an embargo on Russian oil, Hungary’s prime minister insisted Monday that his country would not support any sanctions that negatively affect Hungary’s energy security.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow would respond if the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) would deploy military infrastructure on the territories of Finland or Sweden.

Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC) announced that over 600 families have been affected by floods and landslides as heavy rain prevails in the island nation.

Colombo police called army personnel to disburse the crowd over the demand for cooking gas at a Slave Island Police Station on Saturday. We are here since morning and we are not getting gas and I think these people are selling gas to hotels and rich people,va woman protestor said.

Ukrainian forcesappear to have won the battle of Kharkiv, according to a US defence thinktank, in what appears to be their fastest advance since Russian troops pulled away from Kiev and the north-east over a month ago, The Guardian reported.