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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

Published by Al-Araby A Yemeni rebel attack on a Saudi oil plant set off a huge fire near Jeddah’s Formula One circuit during televised practice sessions on Friday, part of a wave of assaults on Aramco facilities. Smoke billowed near the circuit and the second practice was delayed in the attack, one of 16 drone-and-missile

Published by Reuters By Krishna N. Das and Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India said ties with China could not be normal until their troops pulled back from each other on the disputed border, but Beijing struck a conciliatory note during a meeting of their foreign ministers in New Delhi on Friday. Both nations have

Published by DPA On the second day of his visit to Poland, US President Joe Biden is due to deliver a speech in Warsaw on Saturday addressing the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The president’s appearance at Warsaw’s Royal Castle is scheduled for the late afternoon between 5 and 6 pm (1600 and 1700 GMT),

Published by Reuters By Angie Teo and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the next G20 summit in Indonesia later this year and received valuable backing from Beijing on Wednesday in a pushback to suggestions by some members that Russia could be barred from the group. The United States