The economic situation in debt-stricken Sri Lanka has started to gradually improve following its worst economic crisis two years ago, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday.The country’s inflation has come down from a peak of 70% in 2022 to 5.9% last month and its economy expanded in the second half…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s immigration minister said Thursday the country will set targets to reduce the number of new temporary residents in the country.Marc Miller said it’s the first time Canada will do this. The federal government plans to decrease the number of temporary residents from the current 6.2%…

European Union leaders were poised to agree in principle Thursday to open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, even though the Western Balkan country must still do a lot of work before talks can begin.The 27 leaders were expected to give the political green light at a summit in Brussels after the…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former soccer star Robinho turned himself in Thursday to start serving a nine-year prison sentence in his native Brazil more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy.The 40-year-old Robinho left his apartment building in the beachfront city of Santos,…

A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin and is set to form a minority government that could have a difficult term in office as a radical-right populist party that came third in the voting tries to get a hand…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday appointed his son as top commander of the military, a controversial move in a country where many have long believed Museveni is grooming his eldest child for the presidency.Museveni’s son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has recently been holding rallies around the…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria will hold its next election on Sept. 7, giving first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune more than five months to campaign should he decide to seek a second term leading the oil-rich north African nation.Tebboune’s office announced the date in a statement Thursday after meeting with a…

Investigators in the northern Mexico border state of Nuevo León said Thursday they have found at least ten dead, burned bodies in a vehicle on a roadway near the industrial hub of Monterrey.MEXICAN AUTHORITIES FIND 5 DEAD BODIES LOADED INTO BULLETPROOF SUVState prosecutors said they initially found a body and…

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CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken huddled Thursday with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to discuss post-conflict plans for Gaza as relations between the United States and Israel soured further over Israel’s war against Hamas, notably its intent to mount a major military operation against the southern…