Anti-government protesters on Saturday set fire to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe s private residence in the heart of Colombo after his security attacked them.
Facebook and Twitter removed two anti-Ukraine "covert influence operations" over the weekend. One had ties to Russia, while the other was connected to Belarus.
This is the first time the Council has called for an emergency meeting of the Assembly in 40 years the last one was in 1982 after the US vetoed a resolution on the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights
India has done well to espouse a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine-Russia conflict giving due importance to its friendship with both the US and Russia.
Germany has announced that it would close its airspace to Russian aircraft amid Moscow s military action in Ukraine, thus joining a growing list of European countries that have already imposed restrictions on Russian airlines. Moscow has vowed a reciprocal response.