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The World Health Organization said Monday that India and Brazil accounted for more than half of the new COVID-19 infections in the world last week, as the United Nations agency and other groups rush aid to the regions.

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SEOUL - North Korea has lashed out at President Joe Biden, warning the U.S. will face a “very grave situation,” after the White House announced the broad outlines of its plan for diplomacy with Pyongyang.

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The political fallout from the military coup in Myanmar and the coronavirus pandemic threaten to push half of the country's population into poverty by next year, the United Nations warned Friday.

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පළමු අදියර ලෙස රුසියාවේ ස්පුට්නික් කොවිඩ් -19 එන්නත මාත්‍රා 15,000 ක් අද රාත්‍රියේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණීමට නියමිත බව රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය මහාචාර්ය චන්න ජයසුමන පවසයි.

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India set a record Saturday, for the first time surpassing 400,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

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The United States is imposing new travel restrictions on India starting Tuesday because of the devastating wave of COVID-19 cases across the Asian nation.

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කොරෝනා වසංගත තත්ත්වයේ සීග්‍ර ව්‍යාප්තිය ද නොතකා, ඉකුත් දිනවල පැවැති ඉන්දියානු ප්‍රාන්ත මැතිවරණයේ ප්‍රතිපල මේවනවිට නිකුත් වෙමින් තිබෙනවා. එම ප්‍රතිපල අනුව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි නියෝජනය කරන භාරතීය ජනතා පක්ෂය ප්‍රාන්ත කිහිපයකදීම ප්‍රබල පසුබෑමකට ලක්ව ඇති බවයි ඉන්දීය මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කළේ. බලය හිමිවේයැයි භාරතීය ජනතා පක්ෂය අපේක්ෂා කළ ප්‍රාන්ත කිහිපයකින් එම පක්ෂයට දරුණු පරාජයක් හිමිව ඇති බවත්, ජනතාව ප්‍රබල ලෙස මෝදි පාලනය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර ඇති බවත්, ඉන්දීය මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කළා. ඒ අනුව භාරතීය ජනතා පක්ෂයේ ඇතැම් බලකොටු, මෝදි පාලනයෙන් ගිලිහෙමින් ඇති බවයි වාර්තා වන්නේ.

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ඉන්දියාවේ නිෂ්පාදිත ඇස්ට්‍රාසෙනෙකා එන්නත වෙනුවට වෙනත් රටක නිෂ්පාදිත ඇස්ට්‍රාසෙනෙකා එන්නතක් මිලදි ගැනීමට ජනාධිපති ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ උපදේශක ලලිත් විරතුංග මහතා සාකච්ඡා කර ඇති බව යුද හමුදාපති ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා මහතා සඳහන් කර තිබේ.

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Intelligence Bureau and Kerala Police have started to dig into Kerala connections of All Ceylon Makkal Congress leader and parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen after he was arrested by Sri Lankan Police on April 24 in connection with April 2019 Easter Sunday attacks that killed 279 people and injured hundreds.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Sri Lanka next month making it the third senior official level visit from China in recent months, Daily Mirror learns.

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The Ministry of Health has received the first batch of cold chain equipment procured by UNICEF with funding from the Government of Japan to strengthen Sri Lanka’s delivery of immunisation services, including against COVID-19.

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Fifteen thousand doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccines will arrive in Sri Lanka on May 4, and it will be administered to the public in the Western Province immediately, a senior government source told Daily Mirror yesterday.

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India continues to be pummeled by the coronavirus pandemic, documenting a new national record Sunday of nearly 3,700 deaths in the last 24 hours and more than 390,000 new infections.

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday said South Asia was likely to hang on to its fast growth despite fresh outbreaks of COVID-19, with 9.5% overall economic expansion and Sri Lanka projected to grow by 4.1% this year.

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Italy yesterday banned the entry of Sri Lankans on account of the sharp rise in the number of COVID infections.

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Pakistan decided Sunday to temporarily suspend incoming pedestrian movement at overland border crossings with Afghanistan and Iran to “restrain import of any new mutation” of the coronavirus.

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Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Sultanate of Oman Ameer Ajwad met with Oman Food Investment Holding Co. (S.A.O.C.) Chief Executive Officer Saleh M. Al Shanfari and had a productive discussion on the promotion of bilateral trade in the food sector between Sri Lanka and the Sultanate of Oman.

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WASHINGTON - The United States, which has sent emergency aid to India, wants to quickly help the country increase its oxygen capacity to treat patients suffering from COVID-19, a U.S. official said Thursday.