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Published by Reuters UK By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan soldiers with assault rifles and police manned checkpoints in Colombo on Sunday as the government blocked social media platforms after imposing a curfew to contain public unrest triggered by the country’s economic crisis. The latest restrictions come after the government on […]

Published by Reuters UK By David Lawder and Kate Holton LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and its allies plan new sanctions on more sectors of Russia’s economy that are critical to sustaining its invasion of Ukraine, including military supply chains, Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Tuesday. Adeyemo, speaking in London on a

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the United States is forging “strongly” ahead on its growing Asia-Pacific priorities, despite the crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Hosting Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the Oval Office, Biden said the world’s “rules-based order” faces “unprecedented challenges,” but that

Published by Al-Araby Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has put off a trip planned for later this week to India, his office said on Tuesday, after he tested positive for Covid. “Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s trip to India has been postponed and will be rescheduled,” the office said in a statement. The three-day trip, organised

Published by Reuters By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is expected on Monday to ask Congress for record peacetime military spending while raising taxes from billionaires and projecting lower government deficits. Biden’s budget proposal for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 lays out his administration’s priorities but it is merely a

Published by Reuters By Andrew Mills and Ghaida Ghantous DOHA (Reuters) – U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said on Sunday he was not confident that a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran was imminent, dampening expectations after 11 months of talks in Vienna that have stalled. The failure of efforts to restore