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  • Sri Lanka: timeline of a crisis

    Sri Lanka: timeline of a crisis

    Sri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis, and on Wednesday, the country’s president flew out of the country days after a huge crowd of protesters stormed his residence.

  • Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala on a sprint mission for Kenya

    Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala on a sprint mission for Kenya

    Omanyala wears two wristbands on his right arm: one, made of black and green beads, bears the numbers 9:85, his season-best 100m time set in May. The other, a bracelet crafted from leather and metal,…

  • Russia reports first case of monkeypox

    Russia reports first case of monkeypox

    The surge of monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic. 

  • Paris 2015 attacker’s sentence stands after no appeal filed

    Paris 2015 attacker’s sentence stands after no appeal filed

    They had 10 days to lodge any appeal after their sentencing, a deadline that expired at midnight Monday. The rrial has been the biggest in modern French history, the culmination of a six-year international investigation…

  • More means less for Zimbabweans battling hyperinflation

    More means less for Zimbabweans battling hyperinflation

    Inflation soared to 191.6 percent in June, up from 60 percent at the beginning of the year, driving prices of goods ever upwards.  The rate dwarfs even the 41 percent inflation in war-torn Ukraine. A…

  • South African police arrest two over weekend bar shooting

    South African police arrest two over weekend bar shooting

    The police ministry described the arrests in a statement as “a first step of bringing to book all those who orchestrated one of the country’s bloodiest weekends”.

  • Mali declares 49 detained Ivorian troops ‘mercenaries’

    Mali declares 49 detained Ivorian troops ‘mercenaries’

    An Ivorian diplomat previously said some of the soldiers had been sent to join the UN’s peacekeeping mission MINUSMA.  The force said it believed they were part of a unit that provided routine logistical support…

  • More Guinea protests after demos injure 17 police

    More Guinea protests after demos injure 17 police

    The previous clashes broke out in the suburbs of the capital during the protest against the arrest of members of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC).

  • Kipchoge to make return at Berlin Marathon

    Kipchoge to make return at Berlin Marathon

    Kipchoge, 37, boasts an unmatched record over the marathon, having won 14 of his 16 career outings over the event, including not only his two Olympic triumphs but also nine World Marathon Majors victories.

  • Putin says if West wants to defeat Russia on battlefield, ‘let them try’

    Putin says if West wants to defeat Russia on battlefield, ‘let them try’

    Delivering one of his strongest speeches since he sent troops to Ukraine on February 24, Putin also raged against “totalitarian liberalism” that he said the West has sought to impose on the entire world.