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Dozens feared trapped after Russian strike on Ukraine apartment building

Published On: July 11, 2022 09:10 AM NPT By: Reuters

CHASIV YAR/KYIV, Ukraine, July 11: Rescuers picked through the rubble of an apartment building in eastern Ukraine searching for two dozen people, including a child, feared trapped after a Russian rocket strike on the five-storey building killed 15 people.

Ukraine: 15 dead in rocket attack on apartment building

Published On: July 11, 2022 07:05 AM NPT By: Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine, July 10: At least 15 people were killed when a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in the eastern Ukraine town of Chasiv Yar and more than 20 people may still be trapped in the rubble, officials said Sunday.

Sri Lanka president to step down, parliamentary speaker says, amid storm of protests

Published On: July 10, 2022 06:57 AM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 10: Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to step down, the country's parliamentary speaker said on Saturday, bowing to intense pressure after a violent day of protests in which demonstrators stormed the president's official residence and set fire to the prime minister's home in Colombo.

Sri Lanka protesters, angered by economic meltdown, storm president's house

Published On: July 9, 2022 04:41 PM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 9: Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo stormed the president's official residence and his secretariat on Saturday amid months of mounting public anger over the country's worst economic crisis in seven decades.

Sri Lanka protesters storm president's house after clashing with police

Published On: July 9, 2022 02:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 9 : Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president's official residence on Saturday in one of the largest antigovernmental marches in the crisis-hit country this year.

Sri Lanka police impose curfew, fire tear gas as unrest escalates

Published On: July 9, 2022 09:35 AM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 9: Police in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo imposed a curfew after firing tear gas and using a water cannon on student protesters on Friday ahead of a planned weekend rally, as public discontent escalates over the worst economic crisis in seven decades.

Japan's election campaigning to resume a day after Abe assassination

Published On: July 9, 2022 07:10 AM NPT By: Reuters

TOKYO, July 9: Campaigning in Japan was due to resume on Saturday in the final day of electioneering before polling for the upper house of parliament, even as the country reeled from the killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a gunman in an unusual act of political violence.

Shinzo Abe dies in hospital: Japanese media

Published On: July 8, 2022 03:12 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, July 8: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died in a hospital while receiving medical treatment, BBC reported quoting Japan's national broadcaster.

Shinzo Abe in "grave condition" after being shot during Japan election campaign

Published On: July 8, 2022 02:09 PM NPT By: Reuters

NARA, Japan, July 8: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving leader, was in grave condition on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with media saying a man opened fire with an apparently homemade gun.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's former prime minister, shot and hospitalized

Published On: July 8, 2022 10:11 AM NPT By: Reuters

TOKYO, July 8: Japanese former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday while campaigning in the city of Nara, a government spokesman said, with public broadcaster NHK saying he appeared to have been shot from behind by a man with a shotgun.