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WorldLibya has become a major transit route for migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.Tags: Print EditionEGYPT: A migrant boat has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving at least 35 people dead or presumed dead, the U.N. migration…

WorldAsylum-seeking migrants walk out of the Rio Bravo river after crossing it to turn themselves in to US Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, US, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on April 13, 2022.Tags: Print…

WorldKim Jong Un visits the new house of Korean Central Broadcasting announcer Ri Chun Hi.Tags: Print EditionNORTH KOREA: State media anchor Ri Chun Hi is one of North Korea’s most famous voices after announcing the country’s major…

WorldRev. Fr. Leopold RatnasekeraOMITags: Print EditionCHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVESIn our post-modern era of high-tech culture and social mobility, human life, precious as it is, continues to be alarmingly under severe forms of threat even…

WorldDr. Lalith MendisTags: Print EditionCHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVESWas it not enough that Jesus Christ lived an exemplary life and died a sacrificial death? No. it is not enough. If we are to live as He lived He has to live in us. Good…

WorldA part of a road that was washed away after floods and mudslides in the South African city of Durban and the wider KwaZulu-Natal Province.Tags: Print EditionSOUTH AFRICA: Police, army and volunteer rescuers today widened the…

WorldAfghan schoolboys.Tags: Print EditionAFGHANISTAN: The students and teachers in Afghanistan have been asked not to wear neckties in schools by the Taliban Government. The Educational Directorate, the Ministry of Education,…

WorldThe minibus damaged in the crash.Tags: Print EditionIRAQ: Eleven people including nine schoolteachers died in a head-on road crash south of Baghdad as they returned from a Ramadan meal, Iraqi authorities said Saturday, blaming…

WorldTags: Print EditionISRAEL: A new Israeli-led study has found that the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine is effective for protecting people aged 60 and above, Israel’s largest healthcare organisation Clalit said on Thursday. The…

Two new Omicron sublineages found in South AfricaWorldTags: Print EditionUS, SOUTH AFRICA: COVID-19 infections might soon be flagged with a puff of exhaled breath, after the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first…