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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced he will step down after protesters stormed his official residence and set the Prime Minister's house on fire. BBC reports neither the Prime Minister nor the Pr
Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot twice at a political campaign event. He was in the process of giving a speech when a gunman attacked him from behind. Police investigating th
Japan's former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe has been taken to hospital bleeding after collapsing while delivering a speech in the Western city of Nara. Public broadcaster, NHK reports a sound like a gunshot was hear
Boris Johnson's turbulent tenure as Britain's Prime Minister came to an end yesterday after a historic party revolt over a series of ethics scandals forced him to step down. CNN reports that it took the resignatio
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his resignation. Johnson says a timetable for his departure would be laid out by next week. He has pledged to stay on as PM until a successor is chosen and a
Six people have been shot dead at a 4 July Independence Day parade near the US city of Chicago. The event in Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, was suddenly halted about 10 minutes after it began, when several shots
Several people have been killed in a shooting at a shopping centre in the Danish capital Copenhagen. Announcing the deaths, police chief Soeren Thomassen says a 22-year-old Danish man has been arrested in connecti
A man has died and thousands of people have been told to evacuate their homes amid torrential rain and flash flooding in Sydney. The area was hit by flash flooding in March, killing 20 people. There had been
India has imposed a ban on single-use plastics on items ranging from straws to cigarette packets to combat worsening pollution in a country whose streets are strewn with waste. Announcing the ban, the government di
Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for helping disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls. Maxwell was convicted in December of recruiting and trafficking four teenage
The bodies of 50 migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border. Nearly two dozen Mexicans, seven
Global oil refining capacity shrank during the pandemic, exposing vulnerabilities in some of the world's largest fuel consumers. Yet the decline was not evenly distributed. Refining capacity in China, for instance, has
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says a shopping centre in east Ukraine with more than 1,000 people inside has been hit by a Russian missile strike. 11 people have been killed and 40 have been injured Bu
Dozens of Russian missiles have struck targets across Ukraine, with the capital Kyiv enduring the heaviest barrage in months. A Kyiv apartment block was destroyed, killing at least one and wounding six others inclu
The most significant US gun control bill in nearly 30 years has been signed into law by President Joe Biden. It imposes tougher checks on young buyers and encourages states to remove guns from people considered a t
Clinics have begun closing in some US states after a Supreme Court ruling has removed American women's constitutional right to abortion. About half of states are expected to introduce new restrictions or bans after
Millions of women in the US will lose the constitutional right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision. The judgement paves the way for individual states to ban the proce
The US Senate has passed a bipartisan bill to address gun violence that amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades. The final vote was 65 to 33 with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in sup
A powerful earthquake has killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban appealed for international help for the rescue effort as pictures showed landslides and ruined mud-built
At least 114 people have been killed in northeastern India and Bangladesh after heavy monsoon rains led to heavy flooding and landslides. The death toll in the Indian northeastern state of Assam increased to 82, wi
