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08 Apr

Sri Lanka arranges expert panel, imposes tax on rich

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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has formed a professional panel to bail out his United States from an exceptional financial disaster characterized by shortages of essential goods and massive protests. A panel of eminent economists has been mandated to come up with a solution of $8. 6 billion dollars in debt and inflation, luring the IMF and various potential lenders. The President's Advisory Group on Multilateral Engagement and Debt Stability will include Indrajit Kumaraswamy, former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and former Director of Financial Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat, an announcement issued from the Office of…

07 Apr

Sri Lanka President Revokes State Of Emergency As Protests Spread

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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revoked the emergency rule ordinance that had long past into effect on April 1 the day gone by as protests spread in the island united states amid the nation's worst economic disaster in decades. Earlier on Tuesday, Sri Lanka's President lost his parliamentary majority as former allies advised his resignation. Severe shortages of food, fuel and different necessities -- along with file inflation and crippling power cuts -- have inflicted large misery in the country's most painful downturn since 1948. Massive protests reflect public anger which is at a fever pitch in the united states…

05 Apr

Former Pakistan chief justice nominated to be caretaker PM

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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday proposed the title of former Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice (R) Gulzar Ahmed as Caretaker Prime Minister. This comes after Pakistan President Alvi on Sunday night issued an order de-notifying Imran Khan as the country's prime minister with immediate effect. However, President Alvi later issued some other orders, asking Imran Khan to continue as Prime Minister during the intervention until a "caretaker Prime Minister" was elected under Article 224A of the Constitution of Pakistan. “In response to the President’s letter, after consultation and approval from the PTI Corps Committee, Prime Minister Imran Khan…

01 Apr

Russians fled Chernobyl nuclear plant at ‘first sign of illness’ from radiation, says Ukraine

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Ukrainians have claimed that Russian soldiers fled the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after receiving high levels of radiation. The claims, made by the Ukrainian national power corporation Energoatom, are now being investigated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog. According to Guardian documents, Energotom said the Russians had dug trenches in a wooded area inside the power plant's exclusion quarter, adding that the soldiers "panicked at the first signs of illness that appeared very quickly and began preparing to leave." Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk also said Russians had been exposed to radiation. Some reports also…

01 Apr

Protests took place in front of Sri Lanka President’s residence as economic crisis deepens

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Police fired tear gas and water cannons at angry protesters demanding his resignation after they gathered in front of the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday, as the island nation grapples with its worst financial crisis in decades. Sri Lanka's foreign trade crisis has led to shortages of essential commodities such as fuel. cooking gas, and power cuts that remain off for up to thirteen hours a day. Protesters chanted slogans, expressing their anger at what they characterized as gross mismanagement by the Rajapaksa regime that has exacerbated Sri Lanka's foreign exchange woes. Protesters carrying placards saying…

01 Apr

PM Narendra Modi Meets Russian Foreign Minister Amid Pressure To Take Anti-Moscow Stand

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this evening amid global pressure on India to take a stand against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.PM Modi and Russian Foreign Minister held a meeting for 40 minutes. The Prime Minister has not publicly met any other visiting ministers from the UK, China, Austria, Greece and Mexico in the past two weeks. Earlier today, Mr Lavrov said he wanted a "personal message" from President Vladimir Putin to Prime Minister Modi. "The president (Putin) and the prime minister are in daily contact with each other and I will file with the…

31 Mar

Russian soldiers disobeyed orders, accidentally shot down own aircraft, says UK spy chief

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The head of Britain’s GCHQ secret agent provider said on Wednesday that new brain showed some Russian troopers in Ukraine had refused to lift out orders, sabotaged their personal tools and by accident shot down one of their own aircraft. “We’ve viewed Russian soldiers short of weapons and morale – refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their very own tools and even by accident capturing down their own aircraft,” Fleming said. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has killed heaps of people, displaced hundreds of thousands and raised fears of a wider disagreement between Russia and the United States. Government…

29 Mar

7 Dead After Russian Missiles Hit Government Building In Mykolaiv, Zelensky Says

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A Russian rocket hit the regional administration of the southern Ukrainian port metropolis of Mykolaiv on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 22, local authorities said. Eighteen of the injured were pulled from the wreckage by rescue workers, who continued to work at the scene, emergency services said in an online post. An image shared by local governor Vitaly Kim confirmed a large gap in the side of the building. On Tuesday, Reuters witnesses saw the wreckage in the distance and ambulances and furnace engines heading to the scene. The neighborhood was once surrounded. "They destroyed half the…

29 Mar

Indian power project replaces Chinese venture in Sri Lanka’s northern islands

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India will set up hybrid power ventures on three islands near Jaffna, effectively replacing the Chinese task cleared using Colombo closing year. New Delhi has long been concerned about China's growing influence in the region. A $12 million project to build wind turbines on three small islands in the Palak Strait between southern India and Sri Lanka was awarded in 2019 to a Chinese company with funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). But work never got off the ground after Indian protests over the Chinese effort closed off its coast, and work on the islands of Nainativu, Analativu and…

28 Mar

International media banned in Afghanistan

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The Taliban in Afghanistan have decided to ban international media outlets from broadcasting over local media. The BBC first stopped broadcasting on Sunday night. The BBC has asked the Taliban to reverse its decision, saying it will affect more than 6 million viewers of its Farsi, Pashto and Uzbek language service programs. The BBC Persian TV channel can still be accessed, but only by 20 percent of Afghans with satellite TV. The Khaama Press quoted, “The BBC’s TV news bulletins in Pashto, Persian, and Uzbek have been taken off air in Afghanistan after the Taliban ordered our TV partners to…