International Affairs

Thousands of protesters were in the streets of Bangkok, Thailand, again Saturday in defiance of a government crackdown as they continue to push for the ouster of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස් ගෝපාල් බාග්ලේ මැතිතුමා ඊයේ (15) දින පස්වරුවේ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවිය.

The head of Britain’s domestic spy agency outlined Wednesday a cauldron of threats the country is facing, including from Islamist militancy to rising right-wing extremism, but he emphasized the biggest long-term challenge is presented by China.

LONDON - Human traffickers are capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic to target people ranging from jobless migrants to out-of-school children, two U.N. specialists said, warning that the fallout from COVID-19 had driven the crime further underground.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පාලනය කිරීම සඳහා චීනය ණය උගුලක් අටවා ඇති බවට ඇමරිකාව කළ ප්‍රකාශය ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළ බව චීන විදේශ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ප්‍රකාශක ෂාඕ ලිජියන් පෙරේදා (14 වැනිදා) පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක දී සඳහන් කර ඇත.

ලාංකීය විදුලිබල ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ උන්නතිය වෙනුවෙන් ලබාදිය හැකි සෑම සහයෝගයක්ම ලබාදෙන බව, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රුසියානු තානාපති යූරි මතෙරි මහතා පවසයි.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, leading the Sri Lanka delegation to the 20th Virtual Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting (CFAMM) in the sidelines of the 75 UN General Assembly, called for innovative thinking, collective and integrated strategies to address the multi-dimensional and cross cutting challenges in the wake of the COVID -19 pandemic.

Consul General of India (Hambantota) Dipin P.R called on the Governor of the Uva Province

අංක 2196/49 -2020 ඔක්තොම්බර් 9 වැනිදා නිකුත් කළ ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් මගින් හම්බන්තොට, ගාල්ල, මාතර සහ මොණරාගල යන දිස්ත්‍රික්ක සඳහා ඉන්දියානු කොන්සල් ජෙනරාල්වරයකුගේ පත් කිරීම පිළිගෙන ඇත.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters): Strong international cooperation on COVID-19 vaccines could speed up the world economic recovery and add $ 9 trillion (6.9 trillion pounds) to global income by 2025, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday.

Minister of Water Supply Vasudeva Nanayakkara (left) and Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka Charge d’affaires Hu Wei after signing a Supplementary Agreement to the MoU on water research and technology cooperation

During the recent high-level visit, Communist Party of China Politburo member Yang Jiechi discussed with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and PM Mahinda Rajapaksa on tourism cooperation between China and Sri Lanka.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Friday accused Russia of mounting a worldwide disinformation campaign aimed at eroding public confidence in Western coronavirus vaccines, calling the action "reprehensible" at a time when countries should be coming together to tackle a pandemic that's killed more than a million people.

ISLAMABAD - The United States says it has agreed with the Taliban “to reset actions by strictly adhering to” the terms of an agreement reached between the two adversaries earlier this year to close the war in Afghanistan.

NEW YORK - Saudi Arabia failed in its bid to win a seat on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday, but other nations with abysmal rights records, including China and Russia, made it on to the 47-nation body.  

Daily cases of COVID-19 have reached record highs around the world, particularly in Europe and the Americas, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Lockdowns have been used to control the coronavirus around the world. Now a WHO official has questioned the success of them.

"Liverpool is full of the kind of people who go out on a Monday, and couldn't care less about Tuesday morning," George Harrison, lead guitarist of the Beatles, once said of his hometown.