November 2021

By Sui Lee Wee YANGON - A judge in Myanmar on Tuesday (30) delayed the announcement of a highly anticipated verdict against the country’s ousted civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is facing a series of rulings that could keep her…
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COLOMBO - Armed troops broke up Tamil memorials for Sri Lanka's civil war dead and beat up journalists covering one ceremony in a former battle zone, residents and media organizations said Monday (29). Grieving relatives were forced out…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka is investigating a sharp rise in kitchen explosions caused by cooking gas that have reportedly killed at least one person and wounded dozens of others, Parliament heard Monday (29). The island is in the grip of an…
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By Kate Conger and Lauren Hirsch SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief executive of Twitter, the social media site he co-founded in 2006 and guided through the tumultuous years of the Trump administration. Twitter…
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By Nick Cumming Bruce GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday (29) that global risks posed by the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus were “very high,” despite significant questions about the variant itself. Still,…
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By Sudha Ramachandran A Sino-Sri Lankan spat over fertilizer has ended in China’s favour. Sri Lanka has reportedly agreed to pay 70% of the claim made by a Chinese organic fertilizer company for a shipment that Colombo had rejected as it…
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By Tisaranee Gunasekara In Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods, a god gets turned into a tortoise. Omnia is great god Om’s fief. Everyone worships him there, out of habit or in fear of his human enforcers. But no one believes in him. When belief…
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By Jane Arraf SORAN, Iraq — Maryam Nuri had never been on a plane before she boarded a flight from Iraq in early November with a visa from Italy. She had never seen the ocean before she set out on a flimsy boat from France into the English…
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LIMA - A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northern Peru on Sunday (28), destroying buildings including a church tower, injuring at least 10 people and sending shock waves across the region. The strong quake hit at 5:52 a.m. (1052 GMT) at…
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ROME - Pope Francis called on authorities around the world to do more to help migrants and refugees, in comments to the faithful on the first Sunday of Advent. Directing his words towards governments and militaries, Francis said in St…
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