President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe both announced they would resign in the face of the protests. The Prime Minister’s private residence was set on fire on Saturday afternoon after a day of unrest in Colombo. Calm returned to the city on Sunday. Thousands of people gather in and around the presidential palace with their families, and streams of people with small children and food block the line to go to the president’s home....

It happened around 10:30 p.m. near Creighton Street and Wyalusing Avenue in West Philadelphia. According to Chief Inspector Scott Small, officers found a 26-year-old man lying on the pavement on Creighton Street suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. He was rushed to a local hospital and was treated in critical condition. A short distance down the block near 51st Street and Wyalusing Avenue, police found three additional victims inside a bullet-riddled Kia SUV....

Piaras Ó Mídheach Sportsfile for Web Summit | Getty Images Crypto firm Celsius is in the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a source familiar with the discussions. The company’s lawyers were notifying individual US regulators as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the source, who asked not to be named because the process was private. Kelsius plans to file the paperwork “immediately,” the person said. The Hoboken, New Jersey-based company made headlines a month ago after freezing customer accounts, blaming “extreme market conditions....

The association did not name the hospitals, but said it has received complaints that the hospitals, their administrators and attorneys may be preventing doctors from providing appropriate medical care in some cases, the Dallas Morning News reported. Texas law prohibits most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. A full ban – which includes exceptions if a woman’s life or health is at risk – will go into effect in the coming weeks following the US Supreme Court’s ruling last month that overturned Roe v....

The energy crisis comes alongside an economic slowdown, which has raised doubts about whether the European Central Bank can tighten policy enough to reduce inflation. The ECB has announced it will raise interest rates this month for the first time since 2011 as inflation in the eurozone stands at 8.6%. However, some say the ECB is way behind the curve and that a hard landing is all but inevitable. Germany posted its first goods trade deficit since 1991 last week as fuel prices and general supply chain chaos pushed import prices up sharply....

The country’s Presidential Secretariat, the heart of government, was stormed by thousands of protesters. Many with the nation’s flag draped over them ran up the steps and into the iconic building. Later, the prime minister’s home was set on fire by protesters, hours after he announced his resignation. The president, under intense pressure to follow suit, did so at around 11pm local time. Since the morning there have been clashes between protesters and security forces across the capital Colombo....

Nyima Dolma was attacked on June 17 and was rushed to hospital with second and third degree burns. Dolma was placed on life support but succumbed to her injuries just over two weeks later on July 5. “Her young and promising life in Canada was cut short due to the tragic incident that occurred on June 17, 2022. Please remember her (Monlam) in your prayers as the family mourns this sad time,” a statement shared Monday by The Tibetan Canadian Cultural Center on behalf of Dolma’s family and friends noted....

Toronto police have identified the victim in a Saturday afternoon shooting near Union Station that left one dead and briefly halted all trains and buses at the busy transit hub. Police say 24-year-old Stephon Little-McClacken of Toronto was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. shortly after the end of a Blue Jays baseball game. Toronto police Const. Alex Li says investigators are looking for a suspect described as a black male, six feet tall with a medium build, who was last seen wearing a light colored top and dark colored pants....

• A lire aussi : Jamais sans son frère • À lire aussi : Tour de France : mentor montréalais • À lire aussi : Tour de France : le rare échec de Pogacar Dans la section Loire, même le speaker local à l’arrivée s’est permis de souligner ses origines en parlant du Canadien Hugo Houle, « qui représente aussi la belle province de Québec ». Le meilleur résultat du Québec en Grande Boucle est déjà allé à Houle, qui a terminé septième lors de la 12e étape en 2020....

Sur les routes : circulation dense vendredi et samedi La circulation sera dense sur tous les grands axes vendredi et samedi pour la rentrée officielle des vacances scolaires, selon Bison Futé, notamment vers le sud et les zones côtières. Dans le sens des départs, le vendredi est orange au niveau national et rouge en Ile-de-France, notamment l’après-midi, et en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Pour samedi, Bison smart annonce du rouge sur tout le territoire et même du noir en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes....

Roscosmos NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, have officially agreed to swap seats on four upcoming missions to the International Space Station. The first missions – with a Russian in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and an American in Soyuz vehicles – will fly in September. “Flying integrated crews ensure that there are properly trained crew members on the station for basic maintenance and spacewalks,” NASA spokesman Josh Finch said in a statement....

Trudeau greeted the crowds at the opening ceremony of the Kiddies for Mas: Junior Carnival parade. Around 2,000 young people, aged between two and 16, took part in the event, which started at Malvern Community Centre. The parade included 12 Mas bands. Toronto Mayor John Tory and Deputy Mayor Michael Thompson were there. The children, wearing vibrant costumes, paraded through the streets of Scarborough. There was an array of bright colors, large feathers, shiny beads and lots of sequins....

Citing three sources familiar with the matter, the paper said Trump may send Bannon a letter saying the former president is willing to drop his claim if Bannon reaches a deal with the committee to testify. Bannon first received a subpoena from the House committee on January 6 in September, but was charged with contempt for refusing to appear. The Justice Department filed two charges against Bannon in November: one for refusing to testify and one for refusing to turn over relevant documents to the committee for review....

Zunächst stieß Uber in europäischen Ländern auf großen Widerstand und rechtliche Hürden. Den Unterlagen zufolge hat die Gruppe allein für 2016 ein Lobbying-Budget von 90 Millionen Euro veranschlagt, um sie aufzuklären. Wie Uber die Städte eroberte Eine Recherche internationaler Journalisten ergab, dass der in den USA gestartete Ride-Hailing-Dienstleister Uber den europäischen Markt schnell erobern wollte und dies mit Hilfe großer Lobbyfirmen, engen Kontakten zu den verantwortlichen Politikern und vielem mehr tat Geld....

Senior government officials met to discuss plans for the first heat emergency in a bid to deal with rising temperatures, according to the Telegraph. A national emergency is declared when hot weather is so extreme that “illness and death can occur in healthy and vulnerable people”, the UK’s Health Safety Agency says. ‘Danger to life’ as Met Office issues rare warning. railway bridge catches fire in high temperatures – Live Weather Updates If implemented, it could cause widespread disruption to schools, travel, health services and even nuclear power plants....

A heat alert has been issued for the majority of the country with the mercury set to remain “steadily high” throughout next week. A computer model has shown that temperatures could potentially even reach 40 C (104 F) by mid-July – although forecasters have expressed reservations about this. Parents and carers are urged not to allow children to be in the sun for long periods – and to “ensure they are covered with a high factor sun cream”....

For months the Ukrainian military has requested long-range precision artillery and missile systems from Western partners. Now they have and are developing them with significant effect both in the south and east of the country. The Ukrainian military is not giving many details, but Vadim Denyshenko, a senior Interior Ministry official, said on Wednesday that over the past two weeks, “primarily thanks to the weapons received by Ukraine, we were able to destroy about two dozen weapons caches and fuel and lubricant stocks....

Governor Serhiy Haidai said the Russians were firing indiscriminate artillery barrages as they tried to secure gains in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province. Moscow this week claimed full control of Luhansk, but the governor and other Ukrainian officials said their troops held a small part of the province. “Luhansk has not been fully captured, even though the Russians have committed their entire arsenal to achieving that goal,” Heidai told The Associated Press....