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COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country for the Maldives yesterday, sources told Reuters, hours before he was due to step down amid widespread protests over his handling of a devastating economic crisis.

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of inciting a mob of followers to attack the U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine launched long-range rocket attacks on Russian forces in southern Ukraine and destroyed an ammunition store, its military said, as Russia continued to pound the country’s east.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said yesterday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said today it had carried out a successful long-range rocket strike against Russian forces in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan immigration officials stopped the president’s brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country today, as anger mounted over the island’s worst economic crisis in decades.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – The global price of oil could surge by 40% to around $140 per barrel if a proposed price cap on Russian oil is not adopted, along with sanction exemptions that would allow shipments below that price, a senior U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s new prime minister will be announced on Sept.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, on Monday released the debut photo from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – an image of a galaxy cluster revealing the most detailed glimpse of the early universe ever seen.

CHASIV YAR, Ukraine/KYIV, (Reuters) – Rescuers pulled survivors yesterday from an apartment block destroyed by a Russian missile strike that killed 31 people in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said while lamenting Moscow’s firepower advantage despite billions in Western aid.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court sentenced tycoon Vijay Mallya yesterday to four months in jail for refusing to disclose his assets after defaulting on a loan of 90 billion rupees ($1.13 billion) since the collapse of his defunct Kingfisher Airlines.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has been charged with fraud over a failure to declare more than 400 million pounds ($477 million) in assets he held overseas to the British tax authority, prosecutors said today.

AHMEDABAD, India,  (Reuters) – Labourers masquerading as cricket players, clever camera angles and fake team names were all part of an elaborate hoax cricket league in western India shown on YouTube that was used to draw money from gamblers in Russia, police said today.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Myanmar’s junta government is installing Chinese-built cameras with facial recognition capabilities in more cities across the country, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

TOKYO/NARA, Japan, (Reuters) – Japan’s conservative coalition government increased its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election yesterday, two days after the assassination of dominant politician and power broker Shinzo Abe.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Congressional investigators into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.

CHASIV YAR/KYIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Rescuers picked through the rubble of an apartment building in eastern Ukraine searching for two dozen people, including a child, feared trapped after a Russian rocket strike on the five-storey building killed 15 people.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will resign as previously announced, the prime minister’s office said last night.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Saturday defended his decision to travel to Saudi Arabia saying human rights would be on his agenda as he gave a preview of a trip on which he aims to reset ties with the crown prince, who he previously denounced as a pariah.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Saudi political dissident Manea al-Yami was killed in Lebanon, the Saudi opposition National Assembly Party (NAAS) and a Lebanese security source said yesterday.