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Colombo: A multi-day fishing craft carrying several Navy personnel disappeared off Sri Lanka early this week, a newspaper reported on Friday.Sources told The Island newspaper that the Navy lost contact with the men onboard and efforts to locate the...

Damascus: Eighteen soldiers were killed and 27 others injured in an explosion on a military bus on the outskirts of the Syrian capital early on Thursday, Syria's state news agency SANA reported.The explosion was caused by a device that...

Taipei: A retired tech billionaire in Taipei is standing by his pledge to donate one billion Taiwan dollars ($32 million) to create a civilian army to take on China.Dressed in a bulletproof vest over a business shirt, Robert Tsao...

Colombo: Sri Lanka needs to establish a credible truth-seeking mechanism vis-a-vis the victims of the Tamil separatist war that ended in 2009, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said in remarks published on Thursday.Referring to Sri Lanka’s defeat at the UNHRC...

Tokyo: Japanese journalist Toru Kubota, who was arrested in Myanmar earlier this year on sedition charges, was sentenced to three more years on Wednesday for the violation of immigration law while entering Myanmar, Japanese media reported, citing sources in...

Rome: A Boeing 747-400 Dreamlifter aircraft lost one of its wheels soon after take-off from Taranto in Italy.A clip of the mishap, which was snapped on Tuesday close to the airstrip in Taranto, shows the part fly through the...

Washington: American space agency NASA says its recent attempt to deflect the path of an asteroid was successful after its Dart probe struck an asteroid head-on.Scientists have now confirmed the orbit of a 160m-wide space rock known as Dimorphos...

Islamabad: The Health Minister of Pakistan's southern Sindh province Azra Fazal Pechuho said there is a need for technical support to the country in addition to the support being provided by the international community as climate change emergencies will...

Moscow: Russia has added the Tech company Meta to the list of terrorist and extremist organizations, according to a database of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring Russia in late March banned Facebook and Instagram for "carrying out extremist activities"...

Tel Aviv: Israel has reached a historic agreement on maritime border demarcation with Lebanon, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday."This is a historic achievement that will bolster Israel's security, bring billions into the Israeli economy and bring stability...