Category: WORLD

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Hamas leader Marwan Issa died in an Israeli air strike, White House official Jake Sullivan has said.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) –  Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign, the chair of the Caribbean group of countries has said, following weeks of mounting pressure and increasing violence in the country.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he hopes to have a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza start by next Monday as the warring parties appeared to close in on a deal during negotiations in Qatar that also aim to broker the release of hostages.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) –  Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and his government have submitted their resignations, he announced Monday.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – One person was killed and multiple children were among 21 injured after a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally on Wednesday triggered panic among huge crowds of fans.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) –  People living in the isolated north of Gaza have told the BBC that children are going without food for days, as aid convoys are increasingly denied permits to enter. Some residents have resorted to grinding animal feed into flour to survive, but even stocks of those grains are now dwindling, they say.

(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) –  Ukraine’s president has sacked the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.