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The violent attack on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband comes with just over a week to go before the US midterm elections – a moment when political tensions are coming to the boil. As if to emphasise this point, just a few hours after news of the assault on Paul Pelosi on Friday, […]
- Man charged with attempting to kidnap Nancy Pelosi (Category: Breaking News)
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine McVie dies aged 79 (Category: Breaking News)
- UK to be one of worst performing economies this year (Category: Breaking News)
On October16, a weeklong National Congress of the Communist Party of China began in Beijing with President Xi Jinping comfortably placing himself in the front to become party leader for a third term. But delegates of the 20th National Congress would be reading the tea leaves. As just before the beginning of the once in five-year […]
- Chinese leadership appears to have put restrictive ‘Zero-Covid’ approach on back-burner (Category: Breaking News)
- China at a crossroads: Confronting COVID limitations (Category: Breaking News)
- As China doubles down on ‘zero-COVID’, some have had enough (Category: Breaking News)
- Xi Jinping defends zero-Covid as party meeting opens (Category: Breaking News)
Liz Truss has dramatically resigned as UK Prime Minister after just 45 days in the job. The PM said her successor will be elected in a Tory leadership contest, to be completed in the next week. Tory MPs urged Ms Truss to go after her government was engulfed by political turmoil, following the ditching of […]
- Liz Truss vows energy crisis action ahead of first day as PM (Category: Breaking News)
- Death toll rises as Hurricane Ian strengthens (Category: Breaking News)
- Trumps inflated net worth by billions, says NY state lawsuit (Category: Breaking News)
- Three dead, six injured after US school shooting (Category: Breaking News)
Booker Prize 2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, a supernatural satire has won the Booker Prize. Shehan’s novel is about a photographer who wakes up dead with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of war. Camilla, the Queen Consort, presented the prize, and the […]
- Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘I may write about 2022 Lanka protests in 20 years’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Booker Prize 2022- Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire (Category: Breaking News)
- Standard Chartered hosts 2011 Gratiaen and HAIG Prize (Category: Business)
A military aircraft has crashed in a residential area of the southern Russian town of Yeysk, killing at least four people and injuring up to 25. An apartment block was set on fire and emergency services called in. A nearby school was evacuated, reports say. Russia’s defence ministry said the plane, a Su-34 fighter bomber, […]
- Kyiv hit by new massive Russian drone attack (Category: Breaking News)
- Rishi Sunak visits President Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50m in aid (Category: Breaking News)
- Putin signs Ukraine annexation laws amid military setbacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky wants Xi Jinping meeting following China’s peace plan (Category: Breaking News)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, a supernatural satire set amid a murderous Sri Lankan civil war, has won the Booker Prize. The Sri Lankan writer’s novel is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of war. Camilla, the […]
- Three dead, six injured after US school shooting (Category: Breaking News)
- Death toll rises as Hurricane Ian strengthens (Category: Breaking News)
- At least 60 killed after suspension bridge in Gujarat collapsed (Category: Breaking News)
- Wave of explosions hit Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
At least three explosions have been heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, after air raid sirens went off. Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said residential buildings in the central Shevchenkivskiy area have been damaged. Andriy Yermak, head of President Zelensky’s office, said the attacks were from so-called kamikaze drones. It comes a week after the capital was […]
- Three dead, six injured after US school shooting (Category: Breaking News)
- Death toll rises as Hurricane Ian strengthens (Category: Breaking News)
- UK to be one of worst performing economies this year (Category: Breaking News)
- At least 60 killed after suspension bridge in Gujarat collapsed (Category: Breaking News)
China’s President Xi Jinping has been defending his controversial zero-Covid strategy as a historic Communist Party congress kicks off in Beijing. In a break in decades-long tradition, delegates are likely to hand Mr Xi a third term as party chief. Zero-Covid was an “all out people’s war to stop the spread of the virus”, he […]
- Frustration as Beijing hit by restrictions ahead of congress (Category: Breaking News)
- Former Chinese President Hu Jintao escorted out of party congress (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s Xi to meet Putin in Moscow next week (Category: Breaking News)
- China Covid: Celebrity deaths spark fears over death toll (Category: Breaking News)
Two Australian men have been charged with bribing Sri Lankan officials to secure infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars.The post Two Australians arrested for bribing Sri Lankan officials for lucrative contracts appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Two Australians arrested for bribing Sri Lankan officials for lucrative contracts (Category: Breaking News)
- 41 deported illegal Sri Lankan immigrants arrive in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Lucrative infrastructure projects: Australians charged for bribing Sri Lankan officials (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Rupee further depreciates against U.S. Dollar (Category: Breaking News)
Two Australian men have been charged with bribing Sri Lankan officials to secure infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars. Australian police arrested the pair last month after a decade-long investigation spanning several countries. The men, aged 67 and 71, worked for a company which has been accused of misconduct in South Asian countries. They are […]
- Three dead, six injured after US school shooting (Category: Breaking News)
- UK to be one of worst performing economies this year (Category: Breaking News)
- At least 60 killed after suspension bridge in Gujarat collapsed (Category: Breaking News)
- More than 120 dead in Indonesia football riot (Category: Breaking News)
Wartime Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa is one of those who strongly believed that the LTTE could be defeated. The Gajaba Regiment veteran didn’t mince his words when he met Norwegian officials on April 06, 2006 in the run-up to the closure of the Mavil-aru sluice gates in the third week of July 2006. According to […]
- Norway departs as Indo-Lanka relations enter a new phase (Category: Breaking News)
- Vanni war and Israel-Gaza conflict: Funding catastrophes (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP wanted to give radio equipment to LTTE – WikiLeaks (Category: Breaking News)
- Solheim Looks Back On The Peace Process (Category: Breaking News)
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