International Affairs

Emirates said yesterday its customers can travel with confidence, as the airline will cover medical expenses of up to EUR 150,000 and quarantine costs of EUR 100 per day for 14 days, should they be diagnosed with COVID-19 during their travel, while they are away from home. This cover is provided by the airline, free of cost to its customers.

India underlined the need of further expanding the wide-ranging bilateral cooperation to effectively and expeditiously address the unprecedented challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump has warned that the US pandemic will probably "get worse before it gets better", as he revived his coronavirus briefings.

Geneva/Zurich (Reuters): Researchers are making “good progress” in developing vaccines against COVID-19, with a handful in late-stage trials, but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Wednesday.

The U.S. government will pay $1.95 billion to American drug maker Pfizer and German biotech company BioNTech SE for 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, if it proves to be safe and effective.

ලෝක බැංකුව විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ශ්‍රේණිය ඉහළ මධ්‍යම ආදායම් ලබන රටක සිට පහල ආදායම් ලබන රටක් දක්වා පහත හෙලා ඇති  බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ අධිපති එම්.ඩී. ලක්ෂ්මන් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි.
මේ සඳහා පාදක වී ඇති ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඒක පුද්ගල ආදායම් දර්ශකයයී.

Nearly 50 years of U.S. engagement with China is no longer working and a different, tougher approach is needed, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday in Yorba Linda, California.

WASHINGTON/PENTAGON - Efforts to deliver an enduring defeat to the Islamic State may be in danger because of difficulties with bringing the terror group’s members and associates who are women to justice.

Results published July 20, 2020, in the British medical journal The Lancet report on a vaccine developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University.

Warning against the “politicization” of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Thursday rejected comments, by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, alleging Tedros had been “bought” by China.

යුරෝපීය රටවල් 15 ක සිට පැමිණෙන සංචාරකයින්, දින 14 ක අනිවාර්ය නිරෝධායනයෙන් නිදහස් කිරීමට අයර්ලන්තය තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා.

එක්සත් රාජධානිය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා සෞඛ්‍ය සේවකයන් සහ ඔවුන්ගේ පවුල් සඳහා සිය සෞඛ්‍ය සේවයේ ‘කඩිනම් වීසා’ ලබාගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ‘සෞඛ්‍ය හා රැකවරණ වීසා ක්‍රමය’ දියත් කරන බව කොළඹ බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය පවසයි.

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union Grace Asirwatham met with Executive Director of Europol Catherine De Bolle in The Hague, the Foreign Ministry said today.

China has contradicted comments made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on the Hambantota Port.

European Council President Charles Michel poses for photographers with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, prior to a meeting in Brussels, July 19, 2020.

යුරෝපා සංගමය, කොරෝනා වෛරසය නිසා යළිත් වරක් ශී‍්‍ර ලාංකිකයන්ට යුරෝපා සංගමයේ රටවල්වලට සහ ශෙනගන් රටවල්වලට අතුළුවීම තහනම් කර ඇත.

Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has taken the initiative to assist Sri Lankan workers in Italy to benefit from the amnesty granted by Italian authorities under the ‘SANTATORIA 2020’ program from 1 June to 15 August.

The BCCI has been ordered to pay more than $640 million to former Indian Premier League champions Deccan Chargers for the illegal termination of the franchise.