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COLOMBO, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday that it will continue its close engagement with Sri Lanka’s economic team to set a date for the third review of the IMF-supported program. An IMF team,…

Hezbollah thought it had switched to a safer method of communication, fearing mobile phones could be hacked by Israel. Instead it was humiliated after hundreds of the group’s new pagers exploded, causing chaos and panic across Lebanon. Eight dead and…

BAGHDAD, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — A civilian was killed and seven others injured on Thursday in a tribal shootout in Iraq’s holy Shiite province of Najaf, according to a local security source. The shootout erupted in the early hours between…

NEW YORK, July 22 (Xinhua) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted 13 km SE of Manaca Civil, Panama, at 20:17:55 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was…