Colombo: Ranil Wickremesinghe was today sworn in as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister for the fourth time following his party’s victory in the parliamentary polls, as the country’s two major political parties signed a power- sharing deal to form a national unity government. Wickremesinghe’s victory in Monday’s election thwarted a political comeback by the country’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, months after […]
» Read moreJohnnesburg: One of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons has appeared in a South African court on charges of rape. A judge will decide on Friday whether Mbuso Mandela will be granted bail. The 24-year-old is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl. Members of the Mandela family were in the cramped courtroom as Mbuso Mandela appeared in court for the second time this […]
» Read moreCAIRO: A car bomb near an Egyptian state security building and courthouse wounded at least 29 people early on Thursday, state television said. Security sources who inspected the site of the blast in Shubra al-Khaima, a Cairo suburb, said there was a burned-out vehicle and crater. Comments on Twitter indicated the blast, which heavily damaged the face of the state […]
» Read moreSebastian Coe has won a four-year term as president of the governing body for track and field and has been given an immediate mandate to restore the image of an IAAF hierarchy grappling with a doping controversy. The 58-year-old Coe received 115 votes to Sergei Bubka’s 92 in the election Wednesday to replace 82-year-old Lamine Diack of Senegal, who stood […]
» Read moreA bomb blast in a busy tourist area of Bangkok has left 19 people dead, and injured at least 123. The bomb is believed to have been on a motorcycle and exploded just outside a Hindu shrine in the centre of the Thai capital. Officers examining the blast have said that of the confirmed 19 victims, 10 are Thai. Other […]
» Read moreJakarta: An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia’s remote and mountainous region of Papua on Sunday, a government official said, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian nation. “The latest information is that the Trigana aircraft that lost contact has been found at Camp 3, Ok Bape district in the Bintang Mountains […]
» Read more