Sri Lankan Army to cultivate barren land to ramp up food production
COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Army will take part in a farming drive aimed at cultivating over 1,500 acres of barren and abandoned state land to...
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Russia frees captive medic who filmed Mariupol’s horror
Yuliia Paievska who was freed by Russian forces (Credit: AP) ESTONIA: A celebrated Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged city of...
Europe braces for blistering June weekend heat
PARIS: France, Spain and other western European nations braced on Saturday for a sweltering June weekend that is set to break records and sparked concern...
How did Russia-Ukraine war trigger a food crisis?
LONDON: Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world” and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to...
Millions stranded as floods ravage Bangladesh, more rain forecast
DHAKA: Heavy monsoon rains have caused widespread flooding in the northeastern part of Bangladesh, leaving more than four million people stranded, authorities said on Saturday,...
25 dead in Bangladesh monsoon floods: Police
SYLHET: Monsoon rains in Bangladesh have killed at least 25 people and unleashed devastating floods that left more than four million others stranded, police told...
Attacker injures 3 at San Francisco International Airport
SAN FRANCISCO: A man with an “edged weapon” attacked passengers inside a San Francisco International Airport terminal on Friday, leaving three with cuts and scrapes...
Hunger crisis could swell already record global displacement: UN
GENEVA: Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement numbers above 100 million for the first time, and the UN warns the resulting hunger crisis...
50 years ago, the Watergate scandal breaks
On June 17, 1972, Watergate erupted, one of the most spectacular political scandals in US history which led two years later to the resignation of...
ukraine: 2 US veterans from Alabama reported missing in Ukraine
BIRMINGHAM: Two US veterans from Alabama who were in Ukraine assisting in the war against Russia have not been heard from in days and are...