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Kinshasa: At least 141 people were killed following floods and landslides caused by heavy rains that hit several outlying districts of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), from late Monday till early Tuesday, according to...

Beijing: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Tuesday strongly condemned the terrorist attack near a hotel in Kabul which injured five Chinese citizens and urged the Afghan authorities to investigate and punish the perpetrators.Explosions and shooting occurred on...

San Francisco:Boeing announced that United Airlines has ordered 100 787 airplanes, with the option to purchase 100 more.The deal is the largest 787 Dreamliner order in Boeing history. United Airlines is also purchasing 100 737 MAX jets, exercising 44...

United Nations: A UN spokesman said that almost 1.2 million doses of oral vaccines to fight a cholera outbreak in Haiti have arrived in Port-au-Prince."The vaccination campaign is expected to start on Sunday," said Stephane Dujarric, the chief spokesman...

Dhaka:The ameer (chief) of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Shafiqur Rahman, has been arrested for his alleged involvement with the militant outfit, known as Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya.The chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police,...

Washington: US Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation to ban the Chinese social media platform TikTok from operating in the United States while Congressmen Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives,...

Los Angeles: The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy.The achievement of fusion ignition was made by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).The DOE on Tuesday called it a "major scientific breakthrough" decades...

Colombo:Driven by Sri Lanka’s growing appeal as a low-cost tourist destination, following the steep depreciation of the rupee, the tourism industry is expected to make a swift and steady recovery in this winter season, with tourist arrivals surpassing pre-crisis...

Colombo: Parliamentarian Channa Jayasumana has said that all the members of the former ruling party, including former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and himself were responsible for the collapse of the country's economy and no one could escape from collective responsibility.He...

Colombo:Indian Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar is on a four-day visit to Sri Lanka with a view to bolster overall bilateral maritime cooperation.The visit comes nearly four months after the docking of a Chinese spy ship at Sri...