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Wickremesinghe said that he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the speaker of Parliament said President Rajapaksa would step down Wednesday.

Police arrested the suspected gunman at the scene of an attack that shocked many in Japan, one of the world’s safest nations and has some of the strictest gun control.

The Phoenix Mercury Center and Olympic medalist could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Johnson was forced to concede defeat after two more members of his Cabinet quit and one of his closest allies, Treasury Chief Nadhim Zahawi, publicly told him to resign.

Biden's conversation with Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner, comes after Brittney Griner wrote Biden a letter on Monday.

The basketball star detained in Russia wrote a letter saying she feared she might never return home and asking that he not " forget about me and the other American Detainees."

Russia has claimed control over the last Ukrainian stronghold in an eastern province that is key to achieving a major goal of its invasion.

Families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas have began to confirm their worst fears.

The Phoenix Mercury center and two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

The driver and two other men from Mexico remained in custody Wednesday.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing that decades of scientific data prove that access to safe and legal abortion saves lives.

Biden said there will be a permanent headquarters in Poland for the U.S. 5th Army Corps. It's one of several ways NATO forces will be beefed up after Russia invaded Ukraine.

WNBA star Brittney Griner appeared in a court near Moscow that ordered her trial on cannabis possession charges to begin Friday, about 4 1/2 months after she was arrested.

Villagers see destruction everywhere and help in short supply days after an earthquake devastated a remote region of southeast Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people.

President Joe Biden is praising the global alliance confronting Russia over its war in Ukraine.