International Affairs

Another team of foreign experts have been deployed near the MT New Diamond, the oil tanker damaged in a major fire near Sri Lanka.

යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා නගමින් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් සුරේෂ් සලෛයි යැයි සිතා බ්‍රිගේඩියර්වරයකුගේ ඡායාරූපයක් පළකිරීම සම්බන්ධව ජාත්‍යන්තර සත්‍යය හා යුක්තිය පිළිබඳ ව්‍යාපෘතියේ (ITJP) විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා යස්මින් සුකා විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙන් සමාව අයැද සිටී.

ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් යෝජනා කළ ආන්දෝලනාත්මක MCC හෙවත් සහශ්‍රක අභියෝගතා ගිවිසුමට මෙරට තුළ එල්ල වී තිබෙන දැඩි විරෝධය හමුවේ එය තවදුරටත් පවත්වාගෙන යා යුතුද නැත්ද යන්න ගැන තීන්දු කිරීමට MCC අධ්‍යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලය ලබන සතියේ වොෂින්ටනයේදී රැස්වීමට නියමිතය.

The Maldives and Sri Lanka have had talks to collaborate and train youth to rap.

චීනයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපතිවරයා ලෙස ආචාර්ය පාලිත කොහොන මහතා පත් කර ඇතැයි විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශය දැනුම් දෙයි.

It is reported that the appointment of former Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Ariyasinghe, who was to be appointed as Sri Lanka's Ambassador to France, has also been changed.

Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardane said he told Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay that the new government would take its position on the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreements (ETCA) with India only after the adoption of a national trade policy.

VATICAN CITY, AFP: Speaking ill of other people and spreading gossip is worse than COVID-19 and Satan is the worst offender of all, Pope Francis said yesterday.

Addressing the 35th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC), Minister of Agriculture Mahi-ndananda Aluthgamage underscored the importance of promoting sustainable agriculture through innovation including digital agriculture solutions. He reiterated that the access to and dissemination of latest technologies and innovations was imperative to improve the productivity of the agriculture sector.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan recently directed authorities to release hundreds of female prisoners who are awaiting trial for minor offenses or who have served most of their prison terms.

India reported 86,432 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, taking its total infections to 4,023,179, according to Johns Hopkins University.

GENEVA, (Reuters): The World Health Organisation does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 until the middle of next year, a spokeswoman said on Friday, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their effectiveness and safety.

Countries which bolstered their health care systems in recent years have fared better amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO - These are nail-biting days for the millions of people in the U.S. who use TikTok, the wildly popular video sharing app owned by a Chinese firm.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters): Pope Francis said on Friday that the coronavirus pandemic had “toppled the shaky pillars” of a world economic model built on the idolatry of money and domination by the rich and powerful.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ගෝලීය නවෝත්පාදන කේන්ද්‍රස්ථානයක් බවට පත් කිරීම සඳහා නව රජය තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදන තාක්ෂණ ක්ෂේත්‍රයට ප්‍රමුඛත්වය දී ඇති බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.07 දින පැවසීය.

Sri Lanka is on the verge of uncertainty in continuing IMF programme that would also unlock substantial multilateral and bilateral financing (possibly debt relief as well), increase the prospects of improving the sovereign rating.

The United State Embassy in Colombo says countries must examine their dealings with China Communications Construction Company (CCCC).