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A collapse in foreign exchange reserves saw months of food and fuel shortages along with street protests that forced the ouster of President Ranil Wickremesinghe's predecessor in 2022.

Muizzu rode to power last year on an anti-India stance and demanded India to remove its personnel from the strategically located archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

China has the world's second-largest defence budget behind the United States, even though the country surpasses the US military by number of personnel.

Li said the government plans a "new development model" for housing market, including building government-subsidized housing, in a bid to ease a prolonged real estate slump that has hit the economy.

The Gaza Health Ministry said Sunday that 15 children have starved to death at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza and another six were at risk of dying from malnutrition and dehydration.

Authorities in Quetta said they had conducted the raid at Achakzai's residence on Sunday and reclaimed a piece of government-owned land "illegally occupied" by him.

Netanyahu’s popularity has dropped since the war broke out, according to most opinion polls.

Mostly women and children were among 30 people who died in the rain-related incidents in the scenic Swat Valley, the Khyber district, and elsewhere in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Sharif, 72, first served as prime minister in 2022 at the head of a strikingly similar alliance which ousted Imran Khan, a former cricket star.

One burning issue dominates as the 2024 session of China’s legislature gets underway this week: the economy.

While state-controlled television broadcast images of lines of voters, others across the capital of Tehran saw largely empty polling stations.

Voting in the National Assembly to elect the new prime minister would be held on Sunday, according to the National Assembly Secretariat.

Israel has "more or less accepted" the proposal, including a six-week ceasefire in Gaza and the release of vulnerable hostages by Hamas, according to a US govt official.

This weekend's party is an elaborate pre-wedding ceremony for younger son Anant and fiancee Radhika Merchant, the daughter of wealthy pharmaceutical moguls.

“This massacre was perpetrated on starving people who had collected food from aid trucks, which had entered the area.

Some 15,000 candidates are vying for a seat in the 290-member parliament, formally known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Thursday's incident added to a Palestinian death toll which the Gaza health ministry said had topped 30,000, mainly women and children.

Yoon and Kim’s conflicting comments on unification come after Korean animosities have run high for more than two years, with North Korea ramping up missile tests and South Korea expanding military drills with the US in a tit-for-tat cycle.…

China may well be the “pacing challenge” that many in the US believe. But it also faces significant internal challenges that often go unrecognised in evaluating the country’s comprehensive power.

The U.N. says a quarter of Gaza's 2.3 million Palestinians face starvation; around 80% have fled their homes.