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Lines for fuel at a gas station in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
Sri Lanka’s protesters remain defiant

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — With no end in sight to the national economic crisis that led them to take to the streets, protesters in Sri Lanka are digging in against a president they blame for crashing the economy. On Thursday, as hundreds of student protesters continued their call for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, they were met with police tear gas...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech during a press conference with Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa (unseen) in Kyiv. - AFP

Zelensky says only 'diplomacy' can end Ukraine war
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at a Liberal election event after the Australian general election in Sydney. AFP

Albanese claims Australia election victory
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and US President Joe Biden arrive for a state dinner at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul. - AFP

Biden, Yoon signal expanded military drills
Lines for fuel at a gas station in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)

Sri Lanka’s protesters remain defiant
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Thousands of Covid-negative Beijing residents in quarantine
People walk during a sandstorm in Najaf, Iraq. Sandstorms have affected a total of 150 countries and regions, adversely impacting on the environment, health and the economy, the World Meteorological Organization said. -- AFP

Dust in the wind!
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INTERNATIONAL VIDEOS
Region
People walk during a sandstorm in Najaf, Iraq. Sandstorms have affected a total of 150 countries and regions, adversely impacting on the environment, health and the economy, the World Meteorological Organization said. -- AFP

Dust in the wind!

Sandstorms have engulfed the Middle East in recent days, in a phenomenon experts warn could proliferate because of climate change, putting human health at grave risk.At least 4,000 people went to hospital on Monday for respiratory issues in Iraq...

The Ansar Allah seized Sanaa from the internationally recognised government in 2014.
Amnesty urges Yemen fighters to free journalists on death row
Portraits of late Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh are seen at an art exhibit honouring her in Jenin city in the occupied West Bank, on Thursday. - AFP
'This is not a life': Palestinians in violence-hit Jenin camp
In this file photo taken on May 13, Amro Abu Khudeir (gray shirt) covers his head protectively as he carries the casket of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh out of a hospital, before being transported to a church and then her resting place, in Jerusalem. — AFP

Israel arrests pallbearer of Palestinian reporter
Newly elected MP Firas Hamdan shows his ink-stained thumb during an interview with AFP at his residence in the southern Lebanese village of Kfeir.

Lebanon independents celebrate: ‘Change has begun’
New Knesset member Rinawie Zoabi seen at the Knesset , ahead of the opening Knesset session of the new government, on April 05, 2021.

Israel coalition turns minority govt after Arab MP quits
Opinion
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Americas
US President Joe Biden speaks alongside Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in Pyeongtaek on Friday. - AFP

Biden begins Asia trip in S Korea, under North nuclear shadow

Biden rallies behind Nato bids as Finland, Sweden say to address Turkey

US marks 1m Covid deaths, early epicentre New York seeks to move on

Covid death toll far exceeds reported by countries: WHO

SpaceX launches its latest crew to ISS for Nasa
Africa
A view of vehicles destroyed during fighting between forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Prime Minister Dbeibah and rival forces of the Tobruk-based government in Tripoli. — AFP

Tripoli rocked by battles as rival PM vies for power

Did warming play a role in South African floods?

Gunmen kill 48 in northwest Nigeria attacks

China's North Korea envoy in Seoul for talks

SA president pledges to help poor after May Day protest
Europe
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech during a press conference with Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa (unseen) in Kyiv. - AFP

Zelensky says only 'diplomacy' can end Ukraine war

Nobel Foundation returns ancient gold ring to Greece

Ukraine orders end to defence of Mariupol

Third launch attempt for Boeing's beleaguered Starliner spacecraft Funny old world: The week's offbeat news

France, Germany report first monkeypox cases
Asia
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and US President Joe Biden arrive for a state dinner at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul. - AFP

Biden, Yoon signal expanded military drills

SEOUL: US President Joe Biden and South Korea's new President Yoon Suk-yeol signalled on Saturday an expanded military presence in response to the "threat" from North Korea, while also offering to...
Lines for fuel at a gas station in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)

Sri Lanka’s protesters remain defiant

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Thousands of Covid-negative Beijing residents in quarantine

University students and police clash during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the country's crippling economic crisis, in Colombo on Thursday. - AFP

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka expands cabinet, but no finance minister

Food and beverage vendors toss their wares to passengers onboard the KM Sirimau ferry that was towed to port in Lembata Island on Thursday. - AFP

Trapped Indonesian ferry with over 800 on board dislodged

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
In a Kyiv basement, 19 surrogate babies are trapped

KYIV, Ukraine — Down a dusty stairwell, hidden from the shelling that has become the grim background noise of Ukraine’s capital, Ludmila Yashenko fusses with the babies. There are 19 of them, sleeping or cooing in...

Some of a group of 19 babies born to Ukrainian surrogate mothers, now being cared for by nannies and sheltered during the Russian invasion at a basement nursery with numbered cribs and names given to them by staff, in Kyiv, March 11, 2022. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Putin orders troops to Ukraine rebel regions

Colin Powell: war hero, historymaker haunted by Iraq

Delhi's autorickshaws become ambulances
Australia
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at a Liberal election event after the Australian general election in Sydney. AFP

Albanese claims Australia election victory

SYDNEY: Australia's opposition leader Anthony Albanese claimed victory on Saturday in national elections. "The Australian people have voted for change. I am humbled by this victory," he told cheering...
The Southbank promenade in Melbourne, Australia, March 27, 2022. (Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/The New York Times)

Covid-19: How Australia saved thousands of lives

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, attend the third leaders' debate of the 2022 federal election campaign in Sydney. - AFP

Australia's election foes get personal

Mostafa Azimitabar speaks about his work, titled 'Self-Portrait'. - AFP

Refugee who paints with a toothbrush nominated for Australian art prize

People participate in the annual parade to mark ANZAC Day in Sydney. - AFP

Crowds join Anzac Day services for Australia, NZ forces

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