COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police are trying to track down 140 people believed linked to Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide
JAKARTA (Indonesia): Torrential rain triggered flooding in parts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta overnight, the disaster agency said yesterday, forcing the evacuation of residents. Heavy
PHNOM PENH (Cambodia): An Australian woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Cambodian court on Thursday, for attempting to smuggle almost two
NANTES (France): A record number of dead dolphins have washed up on France’s Atlantic coast in recent months after being caught in fishing nets, the
MAPUTO / MORONI: Cyclone Kenneth battered northern Mozambique on Thursday with gusts of up to 280km per hour after killing three people on the island
PRAGUE (Czech Republic): Marine Le Pen, head of France’s National Rally party, on Thursday said Europe’s populist far-right parties are offering a “new European harmony”
TRIPOLI: The United Nations on Thursday evacuated more than 350 migrants from a detention centre in southern Tripoli where a fierce battle raged as fighters
WASHINGTON (United States): The United States said Thursday that leftist activists defiantly occupying the Venezuelan embassy in Washington should leave and make way for representatives
OTTAWA (Canada): Ottawa’s mayor declared a state of emergency in the Canadian capital on Thursday in anticipation of rising flood waters and heavy rains. No
Bomb scare, suspicious vehicle rattle nervous Sri Lanka amid attack probe COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities locked down the central bank and the road leading to
