Sri Lankan police told AFP on Wednesday they are investigating ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa over a hidden cash stockpile uncovered when protesters stormed his former residence last year. Rajapaksa presided over an unprecedented economic crisis that saw the island nation's 22 million people suffer through months of food, fuel and pharmaceutical shortages. He fled the [...]
President Joe Biden urged unity and touted a blue-collar economic resurgence Tuesday in a rousing State of the Union speech before a raucous Congress that doubled as a bid to persuade voters he still has what it takes to seek reelection at age 80. The Democrat, who has been written off even by some supporters [...]
A renowned Belgian company, Jan De Nul, has won the bid to do the dredging of one of the components of the expansion project of Port Victoria in Seychelles but negotiations will be done for the costing and, if possible, reduce the scoping size, said a top official. The port expansion and rehabilitation project have [...]
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CNN obtained images of Chinese spy balloons, recently shot down in the US, hovering over Taiwan in recent months. China has long vowed to "reunify" the democratic island with the communist country's mainland, by force if necessary. One of the Chinese military's tools being high altitude balloons. CNN's Will Ripley has more from Taiwan. Source: [...]
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is on the ground in Turkey, where search-and-rescue efforts continue at the epicenter of a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that caused hundreds of buildings to collapse, trapping thousands of residents. Source: Latest CNN News
The US Navy released photos of its recovery effort of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, which US fighter jets shot down over the Atlantic Ocean. CNN's Oren Liebermann has the latest. Source: Latest CNN News
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CNN senior political analyst John Avlon and CNN political commentator Margaret Hoover discuss President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, including what he will need to convey to the American people. Source: Latest CNN News
Fifty-one Seychellois applicants for the return of land scheme have met the criteria to have their lands returned, said a top official on Tuesday. The return of land scheme was launched in 2021 in which the lands acquired or purchased by the state from 1977 to 1993 that are still undeveloped are returned to their previous owners. [...]