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Sri Lankan security forces have carried out a violent early morning raid on the main anti-government protest camp in Colombo, beating protesters, destroying tents and arresting nine people. In the raid on Friday, thousands of police and troops armed wi…
Russia’s experience in Ukraine is affecting China’s calculations on how and when it may decide to invade Taiwan, the head of the CIA said on Wednesday.
Appearing at the Aspen Security Forum, the Central Intelligence Agency director, Bill Burns, played…
Protests erupted in Sri Lanka on Wednesday after the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled to the Maldives on a military jet – but neither he nor the prime minster officially resigned, throwing the country into political chaos. After Gotabaya’s…
Ten people, including nine Britons, have survived after a huge avalanche swept over them in the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Footage uploaded on Instagram by Harry Shimmin, one of the people on the trekking tour, showed snow starting to break dow…
Protesters stormed the Sri Lankan prime minister’s home and set it on fire during a day of mass unrest, as the country continues to struggle through its worst economic crisis since independence. Earlier Ranil Wickremesinghe had told a meeting of party …
The former prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe spoke to Australian parliament in 2014, eight years to the day before he was shot and killed while giving a speech in Nara, Japan. The government, led by Tony Abbott, and opposition, led by Bill Shorten, li…
Footage on social media shows protesters jumping into President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s outdoor pool after breaking into his official residence in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, ColomboSri Lanka protests: thousands storm president’s residence in Colombo …
Protesters stormed the president’s official residence in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, after clashing with police and breaking through barriers. Tens of thousands of people had gathered to demand that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa step down as the count…
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said his colleagues at the G20 summit in Indonesia described Russia as ‘aggressor, invader, occupier’. Lavrov also said Ukraine was the main obstacle to a negotiated settlement to the war. Annalena Baerbock, Germa…
The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while making a campaign speech, plunging the country into grief over the loss of its longest-serving PM. ‘The free and fair election, which is the root of democracy, need…
The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died, aged 67, after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara. The hospital that tried to save him said he died at 5.03pm (08.03 GMT), about five and a half hours after he …
A look back at the life of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister Shinzo Abe, known for his ‘Abenomics’ policy, who was shot dead while making a campaign speech Continue reading…
The former Japanese prime minister has died after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara. He is remembered for his ‘Abenomics’ policy to lift the world’s third biggest economy out of deflation and for supporting a more prominent r…
Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech in western Japan and airlifted to a hospital. He was not breathing and his heart had stopped, officials said. The public broadcaster NHK aired footage showing Abe collapsed on t…
Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe collapsed while making a speech, with reports and video footage suggesting that he had been shot before he fell to the ground. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, said Abe – the country’s longest-serving prime mini…