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The outgoing Sri Lankan president has fled the country ahead of his resignation as protests against his government grow.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrived in the Maldives on Wednesday where he was received by senior government officials.
Many in Sri Lanka blame him for the crippling sovereign debt that's resulted in the country's worst economic crisis in the past seven decades.
Ishan Garg reports.
IN: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...Twitter is suing Elon Musk after the Tesla owner abandoned plans to buy the social media platform for $44 billion.
In a legal filing, Twitter accuses the billionaire of "refusing to honor" his legal obligations.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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A "call-to-arms" is how the January 6th Committee investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol has described Donald Trump's tweets in the lead up to the deadly assault.
During the seventh in a series of congressional hearings, lawmakers heard testimony from witnesses, laying out ties between Mr Trump and the far-right extremist groups at the vanguard of the violent effort to prevent a peaceful transition of power, as Benji Hyer reports from Washington.
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At the latest meeting of the House Committee investigating last year’s uprising on Capitol Hill, dissident Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney has claimed that former President Donald Trump has been engaged in attempted witness tampering.
She made the explosive revelation at the end of Tuesday’s hearing in Washington.
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The number of candidates running for leadership of the UK's conservative party has been whittled down from 11 to 8.
Nominations were held on Tuesday where MPs could choose to back their preferred candidate.
Those who did not receive more than 20 votes were ruled out of the race, as Chris Jones reports from the British Capital.
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Train drivers in the UK could go on strike, in a bid to get paid more.
They're the latest industry threatening to walk out, as many struggle to keep up with the rising cost of living.
John Bevir (Beaver) reports.
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Joe Biden will visit the Middle East for the first time as US President tomorrow (Wednesday), with a trip to Israel, the Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, where he'll attend the Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a union of Saudi Arabia's neighbouring countries.
The timing is crucial, with the White House urging greater oil production from Gulf states with the aim of pushing down prices, which reached record highs in the US following a ban on Russian imports.
From Washington, Benji Hyer reports.
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The US has killed one of the top five ISIS leaders in the world, Maher al Agal- and the leader of Islamic State in Syria- in a targeted drone strike in the northwest of the country.
That’s according to a US Central Command statement which also says one of his close associates was seriously injured in the same strike.
Nina-Maria Potts reports:
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Nominations for those standing to become the next leader of the UK's Conservative Party are well underway and will conclude on Tuesday.
Whilst the voting is taking place, Boris Johnson will remain as Prime Minister in a caretaker role until his replacement is selected in September.
The opposition Labour, though, says that's too long and is calling for another vote of confidence to oust him from NO10 as soon as possible.
Matthew Parris is a former Conservative MP turned political writer; he says Labour's argument won't work.
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Sir Mo Farah says he was trafficked into the UK as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant.
The 4 time Olympic gold medallist only managed to escape the situation by confiding in a teacher several years later.
John Bevir (Beaver) reports.
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Nigerian security officials say they have recaptured two inmates who escaped during a jail break at the Kuje medium security custodial center in Abuja.
The inmates were among the over 800 inmates who had escaped the facility when Islamic State West Africa province ISWAP, bombed the facility on the 5th of July.
They were re-arrested in different parts of the country.
Ajeck Mangut reports from Nigeria's capital Abuja.
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