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Harry Brook and Jacob Bethell have escaped with a slap on the wrist from England’s Cricket Regulator after they were found to have brought the game into disrepute for their late night antics in Wellington last year.

Brook was disciplined by the ECB after admitting that he had been out drinking the night before he captained England in their third ODI against New Zealand...


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Former Matara District Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister Mahinda Wijesekara has passed away this morning (02) at the age of 83 family sources have announced.

Mahinda Wijesekara served as a Member of Parliament for the Matara district  for over two decades (1989 to 2010), representing the People’s Alliance, the United National Party and the United People’s ...


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In a decisive strike against the drug menace, the Sri Lanka Navy intercepted a local multiday fishing trawler carrying a staggering haul of suspected narcotics in the seas southwest of the island.

This operation, carried out under the national mission “A Nation United”, resulted in the apprehension of six suspects (06) and the seizure of the trawler used to smuggle the...


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A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has hit the ⁠Northern Molucca Sea off the coast of the city of ⁠Ternate, in Indonesia, killing at least one person and triggering a tsunami warning that was subsequently lifted.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said Thursday’s quake, which was initially recorded at a magnitude of 7.8, struck at a depth of 35km (22 m...


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The Artemis II space mission has blasted off from the US state of Florida, sending four astronauts on a historic journey around the moon and marking the first time humans have travelled beyond low-Earth orbit in more than 50 years.

The mission, which launched on Wednesday, is a major step in the United States space agency NASA’s plan to return humans t...


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