Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores pleaded not ‌guilty on Thursday to a new US indictment accusing them of conspiring to torture political opponents.

Seven of 12 crew members are missing after a drone attack left a chemical tanker ablaze off Romania's coast on Thursday morning, naval authorities say.

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said on Thursday that the country's Houthis had attempted to attack dozens of Saudi airports, ports ​and oil facilities, as fighting between the Iran-aligned group and Saudi Arabia ‌intensified.

The Department of Irrigation has issued a warning of possible minor flooding in the low-lying areas of the Nilwala River basin within the next 24 hours.

A ​container ship and a dry bulk carrier have both sunk near the Strait of Hormuz in the past ‌24 hours after being hit by projectiles in separate incidents, maritime officials said on Wednesday.

An official at the Presidential Secretariat informed the Maha Sangha participating in the “Nidhase Paada Yaathraa” that a decision regarding their demand would be made within one month.

Presidential Secretary Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake has arrived to hold discussions with Buddhist monks who marched to the vicinity of the Presidential Secretariat, demanding the release of the imprisoned Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero.

The “Nidahase Pada Yathra” (Freedom March)—initiated under the leadership of the Maha Sangha to demand the release of the incarcerated Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero—has now reached the vicinity of the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.

The Department of Meteorology says that showers or thundershowers will occur at most parts of the island tonight, with heavy rainfall of above 100 mm likely at some places in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Matara, Galle and Puttalam districts.

The representatives of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) and Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Vijitha Herath have discussed prospects for cooperation in the field of energy today on the sidelines of the 7th CICA Summit in Baku.