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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena spoke over the phone yesterday(Friday).

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A discussion led by the United Nations office in Sri Lanka focused on the ‘new normals’ as the country looks to recover from the coronavirus.

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There is no plan to send the Indian Army to Sri Lanka for whatever purpose, sources from the Indian High Commission in Colombo said today.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday announced a collaborative effort with world leaders and private industry to ensure equitable distribution of any viable vaccines or treatments for COVID-19.

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The remittance flow to Sri Lanka is projected to decline by 19% due to the economic crisis induced by Covid-19 pandemic and shutdown, according to a World Bank report published yesterday (22).

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WHITE HOUSE - Amid the coronavirus pandemic there will be a pause of at least 60 days in the issuance of green cards, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday – a move that will potentially close the country off to tens of thousands of people.

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Pakistan had organized the SAARC Health Ministers’ Video Conference on Covid-19, in which the member states agreed to enhance cooperation in the health sector, particularly in the context of efforts to combat Covid-19 at the regional level.

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කොවිඩ්-19 වෛසරය සඳහා බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය විසින් නිපදවූ එන්නතක් අද (23වැනිදා) නිල වශයෙන් මනුෂ්‍යයින් යොදාගෙන සායනිකව අත්හදා බැලීමට නියමිතය.

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The United States today said that it stands with Sri Lanka in the commitment to counter terrorism.

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US scientists say coronavirus dies the fastest when it is exposed to direct sunlight, though a study cited has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation.

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ත්‍රිකුණාමලයේ පිහිටි තෙල් ටැංකි සංකීරණයේ ඇති ටැංකි දහයක් නැවත ලබා ගැනීමට රජය කළ ඉල්ලීමක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පිහිටි ඉන්දීය තානාපති කාර්යාල‌යෙන් යහපත් ප්‍රතිචාරයක් ලැබී නැති බව විදුලිබල අමාත්‍යංශ ආරංචි මාර්ග පවසයි.

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Sri Lankan fishermen, who venture on high seas for 'multi-day fishing', are caught poaching in Seychelles waters, news agency report revealed.

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නව කොරෝනා ව්‍යසනය නිසා පීඩාවට පත් වූවන්ට සහන සැපයීම සඳහා කැනෙඩියානු රජයද ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවට ආධාර සපයා තිබෙනවා.

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Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa briefed UNESCO’s Cultural Ministers on the steps taken by Sri Lanka to protect the cultural sector in the face of the ongoing global pandemic.

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කොරෝනා වෛරසය වැළදී ඇත්දැයි සොයා බැලීමේ පරීක්ෂණ අඩුම ප්‍රමාණයක් කරන ලද රටවල් අතර ශ්‍රී සිටින බව https://www.worldometers.info/ වෙබ් අඩවිය පෙන්වා දෙයි.

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ඇමරිකානු ඩොලරයේ අගය රුපියල් 200ට අඩුවෙන් පවත්වාගෙන යාම සඳහා ඉන්දියානු සංචිත බැංකුවෙන් ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 400ක කෙටි කාලීන ණය මුදලක් ලබාගැනීම සඳහා කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය හිමිවූ බව කැබිනට් ප්‍රකාශක, ආචාර්ය බන්ධුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි.

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In a humanitarian and health welfare gesture the Japanese Government has granted a total sum of USD 1,212,500 (approx. Rs. 230 million) through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to tackle the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka.

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The United Nations (UN) stresses that no one should be left behind in the response to the COVID- 19 global threat.