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UK: Britain’s government will investigate how images of former health minister Matt Hancock kissing an aide found their way into the media and forced his resignation, in the latest scandal to hit Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s…
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US: Former US president Donald Trump once against teased a possible third run for the White House in 2024 while addressing his first political rally on Saturday since leaving the White House. He lashed out at his successor,…
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MYANMAR: Myanmar authorities torched over half a billion dollars worth of narcotics across the country on Saturday, sending opium, heroin and methamphetamine up in smoke as experts warn smugglers have adapted to COVID-19 travel…
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CANADA: A “heat dome” over western Canada and the US Pacific northwest sent temperatures soaring to new highs, triggering heat warnings from Oregon to Canada’s Arctic territories on Sunday. Hotspot Lytton in British Columbia…
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INDIA: Amid a dip in fresh cases of COVID-19 in the country on Monday, India achieved another milestone when India overtook the US in total number of vaccine doses administered so far. According to Union Health Ministry data on…
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AUSTRALIA: Australia’s COVID-19 response committee held an emergency meeting yesterday (Monday) as outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant across the country prompted a lockdown in Sydney and renewed restrictions elsewhere.…
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BANGLADESH: Tens of thousands of migrant workers fled Bangladesh’s capital Sunday on the eve of a tightened lockdown that will curtail most economic activity and confine people to their homes as coronavirus infections soar.…
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Sri Lanka has collected 1.4 billion rupees from a urban elitist ‘sustainable’ tax to discourage telecom towers in 2020, official data showed, as rural kids climb trees and walked on roofs to get signals to participate in online classes amid…
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One step in the in the allocation of International Monetary Fund reserves or special drawing rights (SDR) to its members was passed this week with its Executive Board discussing a formal proposal by Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on…
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Sri Lanka’s nation-wide inflation measured by the National Consumer Price Index hit 6.1 percent in May 2021, the highest since September 2020, when in it 6.4 percent, data from the state statistics office showed. The index grew 1.0 percent…
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