COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that has been widely accused of pushing the South Asian nation into economic ruin. Dissanayake, whose pro-working class and anti-political elite campaigning made him popular among youth, secured victory over opposition…
UNITED NATIONS — Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together — not only on front-burner issues but on modernizing the international institutions born after World War II so they can tackle the threats and problems of the future. U.N….
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly adopted a “Pact for the Future” to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Now comes the hard part: uniting the world’s divided nations to move quickly to implement its 56 actions. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres thanked the 193-member world body for approving the pact and unlocking the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera aired footage of Israeli…
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said. The bombs fell Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky, north of the center of Kharkiv, which is the second-largest Ukrainian city, local Gov. Oleh Syniehubov…
NAHARIYA, Israel — Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa, as Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Lebanon. A Hezbollah leader declared an “open-ended battle” was underway as both sides appeared to be spiraling closer toward all-out war. The overnight rocket barrage was in…
KYIV, Ukraine — The European Union pledged on Friday to lend Ukraine up to 35 billion euros ($39 billion) as part of a loan package organized by the Group of Seven major industrial nations, as it seeks to help the country rebuild its economy and its war-shattered power grid. G7 leaders agreed in June to engineer a $50…
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Sept 20- Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to press on with a new military campaign until it is able to secure the area around the Lebanese border. The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Ibrahim…
Hezbollah mourned senior Jihadi commander Hajj Ibrahim Akil who embraced martyrdom on Friday all the way to Al-Quds, according to a statement issued by the Lebanese resistance group. “Today, the great Jihadi leader Hajj Ibrahim Akil (Hajj Abdul Qader) has joined the ranks of his fellow great martyr commanders after a blessed life filled with…
Israeli occupation warplanes launched an airstrike targeting a densely populated area on Jamous Street during a time of heavy civilian activity. The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported ten martyrs and 59 injured, with eight critical cases among the wounded, in the initial toll from this aggression. Ambulances rushed to the scene as civil defense teams worked to retrieve…
In a session of the UN Security Council held tonight to discuss the telecommunication devices’ blasts, Lebanese Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib stated: “We have come here today not only to defend Lebanon and its innocent victims but to safeguard our collective humanity.” Bou Habib called for a clear condemnation of the “Israeli terrorist…
NEW DELHI, Sept 19 – Artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi has not intervened to stop the trade despite protests from Moscow, according to 11 Indian and European government and defence industry officials, as well as a analysis of commercially available customs data….
It is unclear if the suspect targeted the boy because he was Japanese, but there is concern that the incident could trigger a further deterioration in ties Japan’s foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, has described as “despicable” the alleged killing in China of a 10-year-old Japanese boy and demanded that Chinese authorities do everything possible to ensure the…
The former president claimed God saved his life twice and vowed to win in New York despite polls suggesting otherwise Donald Trump on Wednesday night staged his first rally since he became the target of a second attempted assassination in as many months, telling his supporters in a sports venue outside New York City that what he…
Israel on Wednesday blew up thousands of two-way personal radios used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon in a second wave of an intelligence operation that started on Tuesday with the explosions of pager devices, two sources with knowledge of the operation. More than a dozen people were killed and hundreds of others were wounded. The second wave of…
