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FILE – Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Sri Lanka’s prime minister and acting president, Wickremesinghe, will face two rivals in a parliamentary vote Wednesday, July 20, on who will succeed the ousted leader who fled the country last week amid huge protests triggered by its economic collapse. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Sri Lanka Parliament to choose president to lead past crisis

20th July 2022

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Technology disruption open opportunities for women in maritime industry – WISTA

19th July 2022

WHO tells Europe to ‘act now’ as COVID-19 cases triple

19th July 2022

FILE – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stands at the podium during a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Ukraine graft concerns resurface amid Russian war

20th July 2022

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Amazon targets 10,000 fake review Facebook groups

19th July 2022

Lebanese State Security forces surround Lebanese Judge Ghada Aoun, wearing face mask, as she leaves the entrance of Central Bank following a raid to pursue Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, who she has charged for corruption in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon: Judge, security forces raid country’s central bank

19th July 2022

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China threatens ‘strong measures’ if Pelosi visits Taiwan

19th July 2022

Fish swim near some bleached coral at Kisite Mpunguti Marine park, Kenya, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Officials are meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, as part of the continent’s first ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the protection of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and many existing conservation areas in the region being of low quality. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Africa’s wildlife parks managers meet to boost conservation

19th July 2022

FILE – Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, takes a moment at his home after he was freed from jail, in Tehran, Iran, May 25, 2010. Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, ordered Panahi, perhaps Iran’s best-known film director, to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced, as the government seeks to silence criticism amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure. Iranian Judiciary spokesman Masoud Setayeshi announced Panahi, had also been banned from filmmaking for 20 years on charges of producing antigovernment propaganda, a final verdict that he said should have been implemented at the time. (AP Photo, File)

Iran says acclaimed filmmaker to serve out 6-year prison sentence

19th July 2022

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 rushes on a subway platform in Paris, Thursday, June 30, 2022. – Copyright Michel Euler/AP

WHO: Coronavirus cases triple across Europe, hospitalizations double

19th July 2022

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Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin

Climate talks host cautions nations against ‘zero-sum game’

19th July 2022

Residents line up to get a throat swab at a testing site as they are required for a negative COVID test in the last 72 hours before entering some buildings and using public transportation in Beijing, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Authorities in southern China apologized for breaking into the homes of people quarantined for being suspected of contracting COVID-19 in the latest example of heavy-handed measures that have sparked a rare public backlash. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Authorities in south China apologize over COVID-19 break-ins

19th July 2022

This photo made available by Danah al-Mayouf, shows prominent Saudi critic and women’s rights advocate Danah al-Mayouf in April 2022, in New York City, where she has sought asylum since fleeing Saudi Arabia. Al-Mayouf is one of several Saudi women named in a complaint unsealed last month in federal court in Brooklyn, alleging she was harassed by a Saudi man who has now been arrested on charges of lying to federal officials about using a fake Instagram account to bully critics of the kingdom in the U.S. and Canada. (AP Photo)

Arrest of Saudi for lying to FBI shows kingdom’s reach in US

19th July 2022

This photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region (SDIS 33) shows a firefighter stands next to wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, Monday morning, July 18, 2022. 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 much of Europe. With winds changing direction, authorities in southwestern France announced plans to evacuate more towns and move out 3,500 people at risk of finding themselves in the path of the raging flames. (SDIS 33 via AP)

Europe: Wildfires in France, Spain fueled by broiling heat wave

19th July 2022

FILE – A Boeing 747 takes off from the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, on Aug. 7, 2020. Airplanes are a minor contributor to global greenhouse-gas emissions, but their share is sure to grow as more people travel in coming years, and that has the aviation industry facing the prospect of tighter environmental regulations and higher costs. At the opening of a huge aviation industry show near London, on Monday, July 18, 2022, discussion about climate change replaced much of the usual buzz over big airplane orders. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Travel: Aviation faces hurdles to hit goals for cutting emissions

19th July 2022

UK: Conservative MPs vote again as leadership contenders aim to make final two

UK: Conservative MPs vote again as leadership contenders aim to make final two

19th July 2022

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Taliban says earthquake shakes Afghanistan, injures 31 people

19th July 2022

Trade Union activists and civil society members shout slogans against Acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as lawmakers prepare to elect a new president in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. The protestors demanded Wickremesinghe be ousted and prevented from being elected as the successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled the country last week. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lankan prime minister, 2 rivals in presidential race

19th July 2022

A member of F Company Scots Guards swelters in the heat during the Changing of the Guard ceremony on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, central London, Tuesday July 19, 2022. Millions of people in Britain woke from the country’s warmest-ever night on Tuesday and braced for a day when temperatures could break records, as a heat wave scorching Europe walloped a country not built for such extremes (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

UK shatters its record for highest temperature

19th July 2022

A man pays in Sri Lankan Rupees after buying petrol at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 17, 2022. Bankruptcy has forced the island nation’s government to a near standstill. Parliament is expected to elect a new leader Wednesday, paving the way for a fresh government, but it is unclear if that’s enough to fix a shattered economy and placate a furious nation of 22 million that has grown disillusioned with politicians of all stripes. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Sri Lanka’s political turmoil sows worries for recovery

19th July 2022

FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks to Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 29, 2022. Putin’s visit to Iran starting Tuesday, July 19, is intended to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow’s challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin heads to Tehran for talks with leaders of Iran, Turkey

19th July 2022

EU opens accession talks with Albania, North Macedonia in Brussels

EU opens accession talks with Albania, North Macedonia in Brussels

19th July 2022

This photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region (SDIS 33) shows firefighters fighting wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, Sunday July 17, 2022 . 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 deaths. (SDIS 33 via AP)

Europe broils in heat wave that fuels fires in France, Spain

18th July 2022

Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffin of a soldier, codename Fanat, killed by the Russian troops in a battle, during his funeral at St Michael cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukraine, Monday, July 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine: Amid Russia shelling, Zelenskyy seeks to strengthen ranks

18th July 2022

Imports of natural gas into Europe come from both pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG). A major gas pipeline also shut down for scheduled maintenance last week, and there are fears that flows through Nord Stream 1 between Russia and Germany will not restart.

Economics of war: Pain for Europe now, later for Russia

18th July 2022

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Bennifer 2.0: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez marry in Las Vegas

18th July 2022

FILE – Railway cars for grain are pictured at a grain terminal, in Odesa Region, June 22, 2022.

EU hopeful of deal to unblock Ukrainian grain exports

18th July 2022

Trade union representatives and activists shout slogans during a protest against Sri Lanka’s acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 18, 2022. Wickremesinghe on Monday declared a state of emergency giving him broad authority amid growing protests demanding his resignation two days before the country’s lawmakers are set to elect a new president. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Sri Lanka acting president declares emergency amid protests

18th July 2022

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