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COLOMBO — Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of counting.No candidate won more than 50% of the total votes in the first round, where Dissanayake got 42.31% while his closest rival, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, got 32.76%.But Dissanayake, who promised voters good governance and tough anti-corruption measures, emerged as winner after the second count, which tallied voters' second and third choice candidates.The election on Saturday was the first to be held since mass protests unseated the country's leader, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in 2022 after Sri Lanka suffered its worst economic crisis.Dissanayake, 55, told Sri Lankans "this victory belongs to us all", in a message on the social...
September 23, 2024
Left-leaning leader wins Sri Lanka election in political shift
September 20, 2024
Pakistan blasphemy suspect killed in police shootout
September 20, 2024
India rejects report on transfer of ammunitions to Ukraine as 'speculative'
September 19, 2024
Boy, 10, killed in new China stabbing attack near Japanese school
September 19, 2024
Australian police infiltrate encrypted messaging app Ghost and arrest dozens
September 17, 2024
Indian state accepts key demands of protesting doctors
BANGKOK — The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 80 others still missing, the military government said.The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar last week, killing more than 500 people across the region, according to official figures.It triggered severe floods and mudslides in Myanmar, leaving at least 226 dead as whole villages were wrecked.With hundreds of thousands of acres of crops destroyed, the UN also warned that more than half a million people in the war-torn country are in urgent need of food as well as drinking water, shelter and clothes.The UN said the storm's devastation spanned nine states and regions, including the country's capital Naypyidaw in the interior, as well as...
September 17, 2024
Floods and mudslides kill more than 200 in Myanmar
September 17, 2024
Chased out by protesters, a political dynasty plots its comeback
September 16, 2024
Rival tribe shootouts kill 30 in Papua New Guinea
SRINAGAR — On a bright September afternoon, a caravan of colorful cars, festooned with flags, arrives at a village in Indian-administered Kashmir for an election rally.Iltija Mufti, a politician from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), slowly rises from the sunroof of one of the cars.“Yeli ye Mufti (When Mufti will be in power)," she shouts at a crowd that has gathered to hear the third-generation leader of one of the most influential political dynasties of the region.“Teli Tch’le Sakhti (Then the repression will end)," they respond in unison.From a distance, army personnel in bulletproof jackets, armed with automatic rifles, stand watch, tracking every movement.For the first time in a decade, elections are being held in 47 assembly seats of Kashmir, long marked by...
September 16, 2024
After a decade, Kashmir to vote in historic elections
