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Amid crisis, Sri Lanka president vows to curtail own powers

  Sri Lanka’s embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa pledged Wednesday to give up most of his executive powers but stopped short of yielding to demands for...

Sri Lanka’s economy on brink of collapse as troops quell unrest

  Sri Lanka’s economy will “collapse” unless a new government is urgently appointed, the central bank chief warned Wednesday, as security forces fanned out on...

Struggling Kohli mutes TV to silence critics

  Out-of-form Virat Kohli says that he has a sure-fire way of drowning out his growing number of critics — he just mutes the television. The...

Fascist group founder Alex Davies aims for ‘white Britain’

  A FASCIST group co-founder has said he wants to see a pre-World War era Britain when it was “overwhelmingly white”. Alex Davies, who set up...

Supreme Court suspends India’s British-era sedition law

  INDIA’s Supreme Court on Wednesday (11) suspended a colonial-era sedition law that activists say is often used by prime minister Narendra Modi’s government to target free...

Senator lifts “hold” on confirmation of Eric Garcetti as Indian ambassador

  A Republican Senator has lifted the “hold” on the Senate confirmation of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has been nominated by US president...

Endured spurt in online abuse during Trump presidency: Sadiq Khan

  LONDON mayor Sadiq Khan said he endured heightened online racist abuse when Donald Trump was the American president. His comment at Stanford University in California...

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