International Affairs
India says it attaches high priority to further strengthening bilateral relations with Sri Lanka. The Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay today called on Minister of Water Supply Vasudeva Nanayakkara.
WASHINGTON - More than a week after testing positive for the coronavirus, U.S. President Donald Trump described himself Sunday as being “in very good shape” and said he was no longer taking any medication.
ස්විස්ටර්ලන්තයේ හිරු මාකවිටගේ මෙවර ජිනීවා සැසියේ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාශාවෙන් කතා දෙකක් ද, සැසිවාරය සදහා කරන ලද අවසන් කතාව ප්‍රංශ භාශාවෙන් ද දේශප්‍රේමී ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් වෙනුවෙන් සිදු කරනු ලැබීය.
Facebook announced Monday that it is updating its hate speech policy and will ban all posts that deny or distort the Jewish Holocaust.
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Sunday there are more than 37.2 million global COVID-19 cases and more than a million deaths.
The world has set a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases confirmed across the globe with more than 350,000, according to the World Health Organization.
The head of the World Health Organization is warning against a strategy of pursuing herd immunity to stop the coronavirus pandemic, calling the idea unethical.
ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය ලේකම් මයික් පොම්පියෝ සහ ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් මාර්ක් එස්පර් යන ඇමරිකාවේ ඉහළම රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනා තව සති දෙකකින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සැපත්වන බවට විදේශ ලේකම් ජයනාත් කොළඹගේ මහතා විසින් එළිදරව් කොට ඇත.
A Trump administration official leading the response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.S. can expect delivery of a vaccine starting in January 2021, despite statements from the president that inoculations could begin this month.
නව කොරෝනා වෛරසයට මාසයකට ආසන්න කාලයක් මුදල් නෝට්ටු, ජංගම දුරකථන තිර සහ මල නොබැඳෙන වානේ (ස්ටේන්ලස් ස්ටීල්) පෘෂ්ඨ මත නොනවැසි පැවතිය හැකි බව සිදුකළ නවතම පර්යේෂණයකින් සොයා ගෙන තිබෙනවා.
The Sri Lankan Government submitted a written demand for compensation of Rs. 1.69 billion from the UK Government for the 263 containers filled with waste that were imported to Sri Lanka in 2017, The Sunday Morning learnt.
A Delhi police volunteer holds a mobile phone for a health worker as she takes an urgent call during testing for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Saturday, 2020.
The world now has more than 36 million cases of the coronavirus.
Following the controversial removal of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) from the Colombo Light Rail Transit Project (LRT), the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has now removed Asian Development Bank (ADB) from the Kelani Valley Railway Improvement Programme, The Sunday Morning learnt.
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Philippines Shobini Gunasekera paid a courtesy call on President of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Ambassador Benedicto V. Yujuico on 1 October in order to allow Filipino investors to invest in Sri Lanka’s tea, gemstones, jewellery, food processing and agriculture.
MUMBAI (Reuters): India’s coronavirus case tally topped 7 million after it reported 74,383 new infections in the last 24 hours, data from the Health Ministry showed yesterday, even as the spread moderated in Western states such as Maharashtra.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has noted its role in Sri Lanka after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon offered no additional details on Afghanistan Thursday, a day after President Donald Trump tweeted that all U.S. forces in the South Asian nation should return home before the end of the year.
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