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Colombo: A mass revolt will become inevitable in Sri Lanka if a general election is not held within six months after the formation of an all-party government, a Buddhist monk warned in comments published on Tuesday.Mihintale Rajamaha Viharaya head...

Pyongyang: Leader Kim Jong-un says North Korea’s nuclear status is now ‘irreversible’, with the military being allowed to ‘automatically’ use atomic weapons.North Korea passed a law enshrining the right to “automatically” use preemptive nuclear strikes to protect itself,...

Moscow: The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.Maganov, 67, was being treated at the city's Central Clinical Hospital and died from his injuries, BBC reported,...

Riyadh: Saudi officers foiled an attempt to smuggle 47 million amphetamine pills into the country, the media reported, describing it as the largest drug trafficking operation in the kingdom. Two Pakistanis and six Syrians were arrested in a...

Baghdad: The Iraqi capital remained "extremely tense" on Tuesday after a night of armed clashes between rival Shia forces left some 30 people dead and several hundred wounded.“We have been hearing sounds of gunfire overnight, medium and light...

Newark(US): BLACKPINK won in two categories at the MTV Video Music Awards, one of the biggest US pop music awards, becoming the first K-pop girl group to accomplish the feat.The South Korean group lifted the trophies for Best Metaverse...

Lisbon: Fossilized bones from a backyard of a Portugal home have now been identified as the skeleton of an 82-foot-long dinosaur — possibly the largest ever found in Europe, according to a press release.The American Association for the Advancement...

Tokyo: The national police chief of Japan announced on Thursday that he will step down in order to take responsibility for the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.National Police Agency chief Itaru Nakamura’s announcement comes as his agency...

Moscow: Russian national Denis Dubnikov who was extradited to the United States from the Netherlands earlier this week over cryptocurrency laundering charges is still in police custody in the state of Oregon but will be released later tonight,...

Kabul: The number of people killed by an explosion at a mosque north of Kabul has risen to 30, and more than 40 people are injured, a Sputnik correspondent reported, citing a source.The list of the victims includes...