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Tokyo: Japan's ruling party has made a sweeping victory in the House of Councillors election that was held on Sunday.According to Kyodo News, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) grabbed 63 seats, or more than half of...

Cape Town:  Fifteen people were killed and several others injured on Sunday after gunmen opened fire in a bar in the South African township of Soweto."Gunmen entered the Orlando East tavern in the early hours of Sunday morning and...

Kyiv: At least 15 people have been killed and two dozen more are feared trapped after Russian Uragan rockets hit a five-storey apartment block in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, here on Sunday, Al Jazeera reported.Ukraine also reported that its forces...

Colombo: Embattled Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was taken to an undisclosed location after the protesters overran both his office and the official residence, has ordered officials to ensure the smooth distribution of cooking gas after the fuel-starved...

Tokyo: The homemade gun used by Tetsuya Yamagami, who shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday, was designed to fire six bullets at a time, the NHK broadcaster reported on Sunday, citing the suspect's interrogation materials.On Sunday...

Colombo: Protesters in Sri Lanka have said they will continue to occupy the Sri Lankan presidential and prime ministerial residences until both leaders officially resign, BBC reported on Sunday.President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had announced on Saturday that he would be...

Colombo: Police have arrested three people in Sri Lanka in a case related to the arson attack on Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe's private house in Colombo on Saturday night, media reports said on Sunday.The Kollupitiya police said that further...

Ulan Bator: Mongolia celebrated its "Day to Honor National Flag" on Sunday, a time reserved to strengthen national unity.A national flag-raising ceremony held at the central square in the capital was attended by Mongolian leaders, cabinet and parliament members,...

Colombo: Newly appointed Sri Lanka's Minister of Investment Promotion Dhammika Perera on Sunday resigned from his ministerial portfolio, media reports said.According to Daily Mirror, Perera was appointed as the Minister of Investment Promotion on June 24.Sri Lankan News aggregator...

London: Britain's newly appointed finance minister Nadhim Zahawi is the latest to join the race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, the Khaleej Times reported on Saturday."My aim is a simple one: to provide the opportunities that...