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Sri Lanka's prime minister resigned on May 9 to make way for a unity government that would try to find a way out of the country's worst economic crisis in history but protesters also want his brother to stand down as president
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Authorities in Shanghai have again tightened anti-virus restrictions, just as the city was emerging from a month of strict lockdown due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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The iPhone has now passed $1.5 trillion in lifetime earnings.
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Two tugboats have moved a vast array of 12,000 solar panels, the size of four soccer pitches, to their mooring on Portugal's Alqueva reservoir in preparation to start up Europe's largest floating solar park in July.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attended Moscow's Victory Day Parade on May, marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Speaking at a military parade on May 9 marking the World War II victory over the Nazis, Putin drew parallels between the Red Army’s fighting against Nazi troops and the Russian forces’ action in Ukraine.
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The week was also marked by horrific images that offered a rare glimpse of the death and atrocities of the war. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which has been under sustained Russian attack since the beginning of the war in late February, bodies were everywhere.
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With her trip, the American first lady followed the path of prior sitting first ladies who also travelled to war or conflict zones.
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Iraqi artist Wijdan al-Majed is transforming Baghdad's concrete jungle into a colour-filled city with murals depicting well-known figures from the war-scarred country and abroad. At least 16 murals have been painted across Baghdad, with one devoted to Jawad Salim, considered the father of Iraqi modern art and a celebrated sculptor, and another to the late, world-famous Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid.
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The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft with NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer undocked from the orbital laboratory overnight.
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Stringent lockdown measures after the outbreak began in early March left the city's 25 million people struggling with the loss of income, irregular food supplies, family separations and poor conditions in quarantine.
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Residents around Ukraine face the daily reality of the Russian invasion.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met French president Emmanuel Macron on May 4 in Paris. PM Modi arrived in France on May 4 on the final leg of his three-nation European tour, which included Germany and Denmark.
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The prime minister on May 4 left for France to hold talks with French President Emmanuel Macron after concluding his visit to Denmark during which he held a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Nordic countries and attended the second India-Nordic summit.
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India’s first case of Omicron mutant variant XE has been confirmed. Here’s what we know about this variant so far.
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What’s Roe vs Wade verdict that the US Supreme Court looks poised to overturn, and what is its significance for American women? An explainer
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After the coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, for two years authorities managed to keep outbreaks largely under control but the fast-spreading Omicron is testing China's ‘zero-COVID’ policy
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With each passing day, the effects of deforestation on the climate are being seen and felt with increasing severity. We look at how, since the last Ice Age, humanity destroyed over a third of the world’s forests by expanding agriculture. Here’s how the Earth’s forest has shrunk over the past 10,000 years.
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Russia fired two missiles at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on April 28 evening and one of them struck the lower floors of a 25-storey residential building, injuring at least 10 people, Ukrainian officials said.
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In Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, by the Turkish border, the poppies are in full bloom as spring brings colour to the site of some of the war-torn country's fiercest fighting.
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Russia has cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after the countries refused to pay for their supplies in roubles.
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On April 27, a Myanmar junta court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption. Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted civilian leader of Myanmar and Nobel laureate, has been charged with a raft of criminal offences including voter fraud. Here’s what we know about the 76-year-old leader’s life after Myanmar military overthrew her government in 2021. (Image: News18 Creative)
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A Soviet-era monument in Kyiv dedicated to friendship between Ukraine and Russia is demolished as the invasion continues.
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It’s the first NASA crew comprised equally of men and women, including the first Black woman making a long-term spaceflight, Jessica Watkins.
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On April 25, Twitter Inc. accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to take over the company and take it private. The bid is the biggest move yet by the eccentric billionaire. World’s richest man, Elon Musk, was already a millionaire in his 20s and has consistently parlayed his business successes into new endeavours. Here’s how he got here
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China has confirmed its first known human case of the H3N8 strain of avian flu, but health authorities say the risk of widespread transmission among people stands low. H3N8 is known to have been circulating since 2002 after first emerging in North American waterfowl. It is known to infect horses, dogs and seals, but has not previously been detected in humans.
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Burnt-out vehicles are strewn across the war-torn Ukrainian landscape as the Russian military faces stiffer-than-expected resistance.
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Apartment blocks have been reduced to rubble and over 7.7 million people have been displaced in Ukraine during the Russian invasion.
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World military expenditure continued to grow for the seventh consecutive year, reaching an all-time high of $2 trillion in 2021. According to a report released by defense think-tank Stockholm International peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on April 25, total global military expenditure has increased by 0.7 percent in real terms in 2021, to reach $2113 billion. The top five spenders in 2021 accounts for 62 percent of the global expenditure. Take a look…
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Eleven days after he made an offer for Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk, who describes himself as a “free-speech absolutist”, on April 25 struck a deal to buy the microblogging platform for $44 billion
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China's capital, Beijing, began mass testing of more than 3 million people on April 25 and restricted residents in one part of the city to their compounds, sparking worries of a wider Shanghai-style lockdown.
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From a rank outsider to France’s first president to win a second term in two decades, Macron's journey has been uncovnentional
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Tufting's popularity has been hugely boosted by online influencers. Weighed down by worries over the high pressures of life, including growing inequality and the rising costs of living and property prices, China's young adults are looking for new ways to unwind.
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French President Emmanuel Macron is set to begin efforts to unite a deeply divided nation after winning re-election on April 24 in a battle against rival Marine Le Pen that saw the far right come its closest yet to taking power. Centrist Macron won around 58.6 percent of the vote in the second-round run-off compared with Le Pen's 41.4 percent, according to official results from the Interior Ministry.
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France’s presidential contenders raced on the last day of campaigning on April 22 to drive home why their particular political brand - and not the other’s - is the right choice for voters in one of the world's wealthiest large democracies.
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New satellite images show apparent mass graves near Mariupol, where local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians to conceal the slaughter taking place in the ruined port city that’s almost entirely under Russian control.
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Carnival revellers took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 21, one day after Rio's Carnival was officially inaugurated. Crowds of carnival lovers paraded through the city wearing costumes while drums played the Carnival beats.
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Johnson is on a two-day visit to India to hold talks with Modi on strengthening ties between the two countries.
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Ahead of the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UK PM Boris Johnson said, "From climate change to energy security to defence, the partnership of our democracies is vital as the world faces growing threats from autocratic states."
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The past frequently collides with the present in Cairo, with traffic snarling next to ancient sites. Cars in the city can take a beating — between soaring temperatures, insidious desert dust, and the crowded streets. Classic models are not uncommon, but they often languish in dusty alleys or garages. One man, however, has decided to try to preserve a slice of Egypt’s four-wheeled history.
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Reaching out for ice cream to beat the heat may seem logical, but do these iced treats really cool you down?
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Queen Elizabeth II turned 96 on April 21. Royal officials released a photograph of the horse-loving head of state with two of her fell ponies, as family members wished her well. Here are some of the key moments in her life.
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The United Nations’ refugee agency says more than five million people have left Ukraine since Russian troops invaded the country almost eight weeks ago
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Worn pairs of jeans, old jumpers and discarded cotton garments are offering a new stream of revenue to marginalised communities as they weave them into designer but eco-friendly rugs in Tunisia
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Russia hurled its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and poured more troops into the war, seeking to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.
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A cruise ship docked in Sydney Harbour on April 18 for the first time in more than two years, after a 2020 ban sparked by a mass Covid-19 outbreak was lifted.
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Almost five million Ukrainians have fled to neighbouring countries due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, creating one of the biggest refugee crisis since 1960.
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China reported seven more deaths from Covid-19 in Shanghai on April 19, after hundreds of thousands of cases in the metropolis during a weeks-long lockdown.
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Russia said on April 18 it had hit hundreds of military targets in Ukraine overnight, destroying command posts with air-launched missiles, while authorities in the western city of Lviv, which has escaped heavy bombardment, said a missile attack killed six.
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Iron Beam is the world’s first energy-based weapons system that uses a laser to shoot down UAVs, rockets and mortars and costs $3.50 a shot, Israeli PM Naftali Bennett has said
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Odd and unusual images from around the world this week.
