Morning news brief: Sri Lanka turmoil live updates, UK election race updates, and more
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Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), for which the country's ex-prime minister was campaigning at the time of his assassination has achieved a big win in elections.The LDP-Komeito coalition raised its combined share in the 248-seat chamber to 146 in the elections for half of the upper house seats, significantly exceeding the majority. In other news war-torn Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has slammed claimed that there's a "pause" in Russian attacks on his country.
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The day after the Sri Lankan president and prime minister decided to step down, putting the nation in political limbo, protest movement leaders in Sri Lanka declared on Sunday that they would occupy the president's and prime minister's homes until they formally resigned.
Japan’s ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and its coalition partner, Komeito, won a significant victory in a parliamentary vote on Sunday, whichwill allow Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to continue his tenure in office until the next scheduled election in 2025.
Ukraine'sPresident in his nightly address on Sunday said that there was no let-up in air strikes from the aggressor Russia, on Ukraine.
United Kingdom's foreign minister Liz Truss has joined the race to become Toryleader and the nation's next prime minister. Truss entered the fractious contest on Sunday, by announcing her candidacy in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
The conflict between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and social networking site Twitter seems to be headed for a legal battle after Musk pulled out of the $44 billion takeover deal.
Sri Lanka: Protesters storm President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's home, 'Won't leave till he resigns'
