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An available illustration of Devasahayam Pillai. (Twitter)

Devasahayam Pillai becomes 1st Indian layman to be declared saint by...

A miracle attributed to Devasahayam was recognised by Pope Francis in 2014, clearing the path to his canonisation in...

15 May 2022 7:05 PM GMT

Russian army Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, is seen behind a glass during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 13, 2022. The trial of a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian opened Friday, the first war crimes trial since Moscows invasion. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine opens first war crimes trial of captured Russian

In the first war crimes case brought to trial, Shyshimarin could get life in prison if convicted of shooting a...

14 May 2022 5:26 AM GMT

Stranded Sri Lankans wait at a bus terminus in Colombo on Thursday during a relaxation in curfew. ((PTI)

Court bars Mahinda, son, 15 MLAs from overseas travel

Order in wake of investigation into attacks on Monday's protest sites

12 May 2022 9:07 PM GMT

US President Joe Biden (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

US President Biden co-hosting 2nd COVID summit as world's resolve...

Momentum on vaccination and treatment has faded even as new, more infectious variants rise and billions across the globe...

12 May 2022 6:21 AM GMT

Ranil Wickremesinghe (Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Sri Lanka president set to name new Prime Minister

Respected five-time former premier Ranil Wickremesinghe was the frontrunner to head a 'unity government' with...

12 May 2022 6:06 AM GMT

Al Jazeera journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh (Image credit: Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh killed during Israeli raid in...

Ali Samoudi, another Palestinian journalist, was hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in the back

11 May 2022 8:22 AM GMT

Elon Musk (Twitter/@AFP)

Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter's ban on Donald Trump

The world's richest man Musk called the ban a 'morally bad decision,' saying permanent bans undermine trust in Twitter

11 May 2022 5:22 AM GMT

Security personnel walk past a burned vehicle along a road, a day after they were torched by protesters in Colombo on May 10, 2022. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP

Mahinda flees to Navalbase as Rajapaksa houses burnt

Shoot orders in Colombo, India backs 'democracy, stability'

11 May 2022 2:56 AM GMT

Government supporters and Police clash outside the Presidents office in Colombo on May 9, 2022. - Violence raged across Sri Lanka late into the night on May 9, 2022, with five people dead and some 180 injured as prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit after weeks of protests. (Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Mahinda Rajapaksa faces calls for arrest as Sri Lanka violence claims...

Rajapaksa has been accused by the Opposition of inciting the ruling party mobs to attack peaceful protesters by making a...

10 May 2022 6:01 AM GMT

Activists stage a mock ritual to exorcise demons outside the official residence of Sri Lankas Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa while demanding the resignations of Mahinda and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the countrys crippling economic crisis, in Colombo (Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Lanka crisis: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa may offer resignation...

Rajapaksa was hooted and catcalled by the angry public who are on the streets demanding fuel, cooking gas and an end to...

9 May 2022 6:45 AM GMT

Sri Lankans block an intersection demanding cooking gas cylinders in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 7, 2022. (AP)

India rubbishes report of Sri Lanka using Line of Credit to import...

Issuing a statement, the Indian embassy made it clear that the reports suggesting such use of India's assistance as...

8 May 2022 6:57 AM GMT

Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol during shelling, in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk Peoples Republic, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 7, 2022. (AP /Alexei Alexandrov)

Last women and children evacuated from Ukrainian steel mill

Moscow was aiming to complete its conquest of Mariupol in time for Victory Day celebrations on Monday

8 May 2022 5:00 AM GMT