Sri Lanka parliament speaker warns crisis risks starvation
Sri Lanka's crippling economic crisis risks starvation across the island nation of 22 million while acute shortages and blackouts will get worse, the speaker of parliament warned Wednesday.
Read more
Azam to Khawaja: Five things we learned from Australia's Pakistan tour
Australia's cricketers were heading home Wednesday after completing their first tour to Pakistan since 1998.
Read more
Asian, European markets track Wall St retreat on hawkish Fed bets
Equities sank Wednesday after Wall Street tumbled on bets the Federal Reserve will act more aggressively to bring inflation under control, while oil recovered some losses caused by the European Union's decision not to ban Russian crude.
Read more
Sudanese plan mass anti-coup rallies on sit-in anniversary
Sudanese protesters are gearing up for mass rallies demanding an end to military rule on Wednesday, the historic anniversary of events leading to the toppling of autocrats including Omar al-Bashir.
Read more
El Salvador criminalizes gang-related messages in media
El Salvador's Congress on Tuesday approved sentences of 10 to 15 years for those who spread gang-related messages in the media, prompting journalists to raise censorship fears.
Read more
African support on Ukraine shows Kremlin's soft power
African leaders, opposition figures and social influencers are stepping up their support for the Kremlin even as Russia's image elsewhere is being shredded by the war in Ukraine.
Read more
Former Amnesty India chief stopped from leaving country
Amnesty International's former India chief said Wednesday he was stopped from flying to the United States because of government legal action against the human rights watchdog.
Read more
Is Picasso being cancelled?
Pablo Picasso's track-record with women certainly would not make him a feminist pin-up today.
Read more
US, UK, Australia vow to cooperate on hypersonic weapons
The United States, Britain and Australia said Tuesday they would begin collaborating on hypersonic missile strike and defence capacity, as rivals Russia and China advance rapidly in the cutting-edge technology.
Read more
'TikTok is having a bad war,' say disinformation experts
The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the number one source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content, experts say.
Read moreIn The News
