Lanka sees highest record of overseas employment
UNB : The year 2024 has been recorded as the year with the highest number of Sri Lankans migrating abroad for employment in the nation’s...
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Israeli threat to banish aid agency looms over Gaza
Agency : The U.N. agency known as UNRWA has been the backbone of aid to Gaza. Now, Israel is moving to ban it over accusations...
Taiwan political cartoonist dies
AFP : Taiwanese political cartoonist Lin Kuei-yu, whose satire was hailed for helping the island transition from one-party dictatorship to democracy, has died, his wife...
Multiple people involved inspired by IS
Agency : The suspect in the New Orleans attack that killed 15 people on New Year’s Day did not act alone, US investigators believe.Shamsud-Din Jabbar,...
Seven proven ways to help the planet in 2025
BBC : In 2024, the critical 1.5C threshold was breached for a full year for the first time, highlighting the urgent need to rapidly cut...
Data extracted from Jeju Air black box
BBC : Investigators have finished extracting data from one of the black boxes from the fated Jeju Air plane that crashed on Sunday, South Korea’s...
Iran to hold nuclear talks with France, UK, Germany
Al Jazeera : The next round of nuclear talks between Iran and France, the United Kingdom and Germany will take place in Geneva in January,...
Chinese hackers remotely accessed workstations
UNB : Chinese hackers remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said Monday.The...
Russia drone attacks on Ukraine’s Kyiv
AFP : Russia launched an aerial attack on the centre of Kyiv in the first hours of 2025, killing one person, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday.The...
World leaders celebrates ‘New Year 2025’
Agency : From Sydney to Vladivostok, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges.Auckland became the first...
Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in Gaza
Al Jazeera : At least 29 Palestinians, including children, are killed throughout Gaza on New Year’s Day in Israeli attacks in northern Jabalia, the central...
10 killed in US road crashes
Al Jazeera : At least 10 people have been killed and 30 injured when a vehicle ploughed into a crowd in a popular tourist district...