Colombo, July 20 (PTI) Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Wednesday elected as Sri Lanka's new President by Parliament, in a rare move that could provide continuity for ongoing discussions with the IMF for a bailo
Wednesday, 29th April, 2026
Support The Morung Express. Your Contributions Matter Click Here
World
London, July 19 (AP): The head of the UN weather agency says he hopes a heat wave sweeping Europe and setting record-high temperatures in Britain serves as a wake-up call for governments and voters to do more o
Colombo, July 19 (PTI): For the first time in 44 years, Sri Lanka's Parliament will directly elect a President on Wednesday in a triangular contest, with last minute political maneuvering indicating an
New York, July 19 (AP): The FBI and Justice Department recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was sponsored by the North Korean government and that targeted US hospitals with ransomware, ulti
Dover (US), July 19 (AP): Twitter's lawsuit to force billionaire Elon Musk to make good on his promise to buy the social media giant will be resolved in a small but powerful Delaware court that specialises
Colombo, July 19 (PTI): A majority of members of Sri Lanka's ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party was in favour of nominating Dullas Alahapperuma, a leader of its breakaway faction, for the post
London, July 19 (AP): The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Hospitalisation r
Berlin, July 19 (AP): Egypt's foreign minister called on rich and developing countries to show readiness to compromise at the UN climate talks he is set to chair in November, saying Tuesday that the negotia
Paris, July 18 (AP) A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and fuelled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes an
VINNYTSIA, Ukraine, July 18 (AP) — Beautiful and serene in a crown of white flowers, 4-year-old Liza Dmytrieva, who was killed by a Russian missile strike, was buried Sunday in central Ukraine as an Ortho
Paris, July 18 (AP) France scrambled more water-bombing planes and hundreds more firefighters to combat spreading wildfires that were being fed Monday by hot swirling winds from a searing heat wave broiling muc
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 18 (AP) : Sri Lanka’s acting president on Monday declared a state of emergency giving him broad authority amid growing protests demanding his resignation two days before the count.jpeg)
Paris, July 17 (AP) Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in France and Spain on Sunday as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heat wave that authorities in Madrid blamed for hundreds of dea
London, July 17 (PTI) Almost half of the voters for the UK's governing Conservative Party believe Rishi Sunak will make a good Prime Minister, according to the results of a new opinion poll on Sunday. Th
Pokrovsk (Ukraine), July 17 (AP) Russian missiles hit industrial facilities at a strategic city in southern Ukraine Sunday as Moscow continued efforts to expand its gains in the country's east. Mykolaiv
Beijing, July 16 (PTI) Chinese President Xi Jinping, who made a rare visit this week to the restive Xinjiang region which borders Ladakh, met the troops and officers stationed there and praised their outstandin
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), July 16 (AP) Saudi citizens will soon be able to obtain 10-year visitor visas, double the current validity, in an agreement during US President Joe Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia. T
Former Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa defends himself, says served motherland to best of his abilityColombo, July 16 (PTI) "I served my motherland to the best of my ability and I will continue to do so in the future," former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said, as he defended himself in
Kramatorsk, July 16 (AP) Russia stepped up its onslaught against Ukraine on Saturday, with civilian casualties reported in several areas of the country. At least three civilians were killed and three more we
Kyiv, July 15 (AP) Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through the debris Friday in a central Ukrainian city looking for people still missing after a Russian missile strike a day earlier killed at least 23 pe
