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Bankrupt Sri Lanka opens IMF talks, begins shutdown
Sri Lanka closed schools and halted all non-essential government services on Monday, beginning a two-week shutdown to conserve fast-depleting fuel reserves as the International Monetary Fund opened talks with Colombo on a possible bailout.
Australian PM hopes for 'diplomatic' progress in Assange legal saga
Australia's prime minister said Monday he will engage "diplomatically" over the US prosecution of Julian Assange, but he is standing by earlier remarks questioning the purpose of further legal action. Instead, he said: "I intend to lead a government that engages diplomatically and appropriately with our partners."
Iran hangs extremist accused of murdering Shiite clerics
Iran on Monday hanged a Sunni extremist who was sentenced to death for killing two Shiite clerics and wounding another in early April, the judiciary said.
Ecuador police requisition cultural center under state of emergency
Ecuadoran police requisitioned an Indigenous cultural center in Quito on Sunday to use as a base for monitoring anti-government protests by Indigenous people, the institution said. "Joy has died tonight, the House of Culture has fallen into the hands of police terror, we live in a dictatorship," Fernando Ceron, president of the cultural center, tweeted on Sunday.
Swimming to set up 'open category' for transgender athletes
Swimming will set up an 'open category' to allow transgender athletes to compete as part of a new policy which will effectively ban them from women's races. But "male-to-female transgender athletes... can only compete as female athletes in FINA competition, and set a world records in the female category, if they can establish they have not experienced any part of male puberty."
Pope's future sparks debate, resignation seems unlikely
Pope Francis has fuelled the rumour mill with a postponed Africa trip and the curious timing of an upcoming meeting of cardinals -- but experts caution against assuming a resignation is nigh.
Kenya's khat producers eager to resume exports to Somalia
As the afternoon sun starts to dip over central Kenya, the town of Maua buzzes with activity as the khat harvest arrives. "The resumption (of trade) would be like a rebirth" for the region, said Kimathi Munjuri, chairman of the Nyambene Miraa Traders Association in central Kenya.
Ukraine mechanics turn rally cars into 'combat buggies'
At a workshop in Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, mechanics are hard at work turning rally cars into vehicles that can be used to fight Russian troops on the frontline. Now they are completing work on a "combat buggy" with the engine from a Russian Lada model used by Ukrainian rally drivers -- their second such conversion.
Offshore detention survivors decry UK's Rwanda scheme
Britain's plan to send migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda has left survivors of a similar scheme in Australia wondering why the "failed" policy that shattered their lives is being revived elsewhere. Now the concept is being given new life by Britain, which plans to send asylum seekers to the land-locked African nation of Rwanda.
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