Category : World

New president Dissanayake takes oathPrime Minister Gunawardena resignsChina, largest bilateral creditor, says it's willing to play constructive roleSri Lanka's leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took...

Kamala Harris’ election campaign spent nearly three times as much money as her rival Donald Trump did in August, pressing the Democrat’s financial advantage ahead...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats narrowly beat the far-right AfD in a state election yesterday in the formerly communist east, initial projections by public...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s hard-won new government faced instant challenges yesterday as threats of a no-confidence motion in parliament multiplied.The head of government is...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has handed a little known duo the task of plugging a huge hole in the budget, putting loyalty before political...

A woman died after being stuck overnight in one of scores of vehicles trapped in unusually heavy snowfall in South Africa with traffic still backed...

UN members have adopted a blueprint for the future to tackle the myriad wars, environmental threats and technological challenges facing humanity that the global organisation...

Donald Trump has rejected a second debate against Kamala Harris before the November 5 election, saying that it was “too late” with early voting already...

Dissanayake wins run-off after second round of countingFirst election since Sri Lanka's 2022 economic crisisDissanayake polls 42.3% of counted votesOpposition leader Premadasa gets 32.8%Sri Lankans...

Sri Lanka’s Marxist president-elect yesterday invited his compatriots to help him “rewrite” history in the cash-strapped island nation after winning a vote coloured by discontent...