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North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, just a week after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to boost Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal at the “fastest possible speed….

Sri Lanka’s main opposition party has issued a no-confidence declaration aiming at ousting Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Cabinet and blaming them for failing in their constitutional duty to provide decent living standards amid the island nation’s worst economic crisis in memory.

China’s capital Beijing shut down several metro stations besides schools, restaurants, and businesses and ordered daily COVID-19 testing of its 21 million people as it ramped up measures to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant which has brought the financial hub Shanghai to halt for over a month.

New Zealand reported its first case of Omicron BA.4 variant at the border amid 12,699 community cases during last weekend, said the Ministry of Health. A person who has traveled from overseas to New Zealand has been….