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A large throng attempted to attack the Sri Lankan president’s seafront office on Tuesday, enraged by the island’s greatest financial crisis in recent history, which has resulted in skyrocketing costs. Long lines at petrol stations and...

IOC President Thomas Bach said Friday that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s performance in the Beijing Olympics final, in which she fell multiple times and appeared overwhelmed by the doping issue that has surrounded her, had...

Cristina Kirchner, Argentina’s Vice President, took on President Alberto Fernandez directly on Thursday, seeking a cabinet reform and blaming the ruling coalition’s recent electoral failure on his economic policies. Kirchner issued an open letter to Fernandez...

Masatsugu Asakawa, President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), won unanimous support for a second term from members of the ADB Board of Governors who voted in the just concluded election. His new term will begin...

Widely discussed Ibrahim Raisi had won Iran’s presidential election. The country’s state media reported his victory on Saturday morning. The defeated candidates congratulated him. About 90 percent of the people voted in Iran’s presidential election. Raisi...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has drawn up a new proposal for peace with the Taliban ahead of an international conference aimed at jump-starting faltering talks between the two warring sides, official sources said. It comes after...

Shashank Manohar’s term as ICC president ends this month. Then who will be the president of ICC? Cricket South Africa (CSA) director and former captain Graeme Smith have already made his choice. Smith wants to see...

New Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa has assumed office becoming its 10th President since ADB was established in 1966. “I am honored to assume the role of ADB President and to begin working in...

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani was on track to win a second term Sunday, after election officials announced he had scored a majority in the presidential polls. But despite Ghani’s apparent clean win, the fallout from the...

Hillary Clinton has for the first time ruled out running for president in 2020. “I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” Clinton said Monday...