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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Buddhist hierarchy suspended on Saturday (May 30) a senior monk accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl, in a high-profile case that has shocked the religiously conservative nation.In a rare disciplinary move, 71-year-old Pallegama Hemarathana was stripped of his responsibilities as the chief custodian of a highly venerated ficus grown from a sapling of a tree believed to have sheltered the Buddha.”The Council of Monks of the Malwatte Chapter decided today to suspend Ven. Hemarathana until the conclusion of the legal proceedings against him,” a statement issued by the chief priests said.Police arrested Hemarathana on May 9…

NewsFeedWomen in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are disproportionately impacted by Ebola as shortages of protective gear amid funding cuts accelerate the spread of disease. Al Jazeera’s Imogen Kimber reports how these caregivers to the living and the dead are most at risk.Published On 30 May 202630 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s threat to “blow up” Oman if the Gulf kingdom didn’t “behave” has exposed a rare rupture with one of Washington’s most valuable Middle East partners — a country that has spent decades quietly serving as America’s backchannel to Iran.”The strait’s gotta be open to everybody,” the president said during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. “It’s international waters. Nobody’s going to control it. We’re going to watch over it. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. That’s part of the negotiation that we have. They would like to…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Environment Canada has issued rainfall warnings and a special weather statement for a swath of Alberta and British Columbia. The weather agency says between 50 millimetres and 100 millimetres of rain is set to pour from Saturday until Wednesday from Fort McMurray in Alberta’s northeast to Lethbridge in the south.It says water will likely pool on roads and locals should look out for washouts near rivers, creeks and culverts.In B.C., the agency says in a special weather statement that up to 80 millimetres of rainfall will pour over the roughly next five days in…

VanEck has ranked the XRP Ledger (XRPL) as the top corporate blockchain, placing it above JPMorgan’s Kinexys, Coinbase’s Base, and Canton Network. Will this boost The VanEck assessment cites XRPL’s implied market capitalization of approximately $88 billion alongside $47 million in DeFi total value locked (TVL), reflecting early but real liquidity activity on-chain. What makes the ranking striking is the competition it bests: Kinexys (formerly JPMorgan Onyx) is one of the most mature bank-led blockchain initiatives in existence, processing tokenized deposits and interbank settlement at an institutional scale. VanEck ranking, VanEckDiscover: The Best Crypto to Diversify Your PortfolioXRP Price Prediction:…

Retail investors are rushing into the space investing trade ahead of the SpaceX IPO, and one ETF has cashed in on the excitement.Tema ETFs’ Space Innovators ETF, which launched on March 30 and trades under the ticker symbol NASA, crossed $1 billion in assets in just 37 trading days, and by the end of this past trading week, had reached over $2.6 billion in assets. That rapid rise is due in part to retail investors hunting for exposure to SpaceX before it goes public.While SpaceX has taken an unusual approach to its offering, setting up access for retail investors through…

South Korea’s stock market has become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom, powered by surging demand for semiconductors from technology giants such as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics. Yet even as the country’s benchmark Kospi index has outperformed every other major equity market over the past year, the South Korean won continues to languish near crisis-era levels.The disconnect is raising fresh questions about whether traditional relationships between economic growth, equity performance and currency strength are beginning to break down in one of Asia’s most export-driven economies.The Kospi has climbed over 200% over the past year…

All people can contribute to a more peaceful society with small but important steps, Pope Leo has said during a prayer for peace.

new video loaded: Four More Miners Rescued From Flooded Cave in LaosFour more miners were rescued from a flooded cave in Laos on Saturday after being trapped for more than a week. Five miners in total have been rescued, and crews are still searching for two more.By Jorge MitssunagaMay 30, 2026

A federal judge signaled Friday she may reopen a legal case between President Trump and his own government that led the Justice Department to create a controversial $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” ordering the president’s lawyers to respond to allegations of “deception” and “fraud.” U.S. Judge Kathleen Williams issued the four-page order after dozens of retired federal judges asked her to reopen the president’s lawsuit, arguing the government and Mr. Trump may have “deceived” Williams into dismissing the case.Williams wrote that the former judges raised “grievous allegations” that Mr. Trump sought to dismiss the case “solely to avoid judicial scrutiny of a…