Calm in Sri Lanka as president, premier to quit over economic collapse

Calm returned to the streets of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo on Sunday and protesters were jubilant as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to resign after his house was stormed amid outrage over the South Asia nation’s collapsing economy. Protesters, many wrapped in the Sri Lanka flag, swarmed into his whitewashed colonial-era residence on Saturday, jumped مزید پڑھیں

Speech blunder: Biden reads out teleprompter instructions

While addressing the public live on television and announcing the reproductive rights action, US President Joe Biden accidentally read out the teleprompter instructions. Biden can be heard saying “End of the quote, repeat the line.” “It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who have registered to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher مزید پڑھیں

Sri Lanka PM willing to resign for coalition government

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is willing to resign to make way for an all-party government, his office said in a statement on Saturday, after thousands of protesters stormed the president’s official residence in Colombo. Thousands of protesters broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence in one of the largest anti-government مزید پڑھیں

Sri Lanka protesters storm president’s house, clash with police

Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residence on Saturday in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year. Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, broke into the president’s residence, video footage from local TV news NewsFirst channel مزید پڑھیں

Eid ul Adha being celebrated in UAE, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries

Eid ul Adha is being celebrated in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries today with religious fervour and zeal to commemorate the great sacrifice by Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) of his son Hazrat Ismail (AS). After offering Eid prayers, Hajj pilgrims and other Muslims sacrificed their animals to follow the Sunnah of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) in مزید پڑھیں

US Secretary of State, Chinese FM Wang Yi hold first in person talks since October

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met on Saturday for the first in-person talks since October after attending a G20 summit where the top US diplomat led efforts to pressure Russia over its war in Ukraine. US officials say Blinken’s meeting with Wang in Bali, Indonesia, including a morning مزید پڑھیں