International Affairs
Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay said India was ready to support Sri Lanka to get the Rajagala archaeological reserve declared as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Bahrain has become the second country in the world after the UK to approve Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
එක්සත් ජනපදය සඳහා නම් කළ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති රවිනාථ පී. ආර්යසිංහ මැතිතුමාගේ අක්ත පත්‍රයෙහි පිටපත 2020 දෙසැම්බර් 04 වැනි සිකුරාදා එක්සත් ජනපද රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් පිළිගන්නා ලදී.
GENEVA - Ahead of Human Rights Day on Thursday, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights warned that the politicization of the coronavirus pandemic was undermining a range of such rights, from economic, social and cultural rights to civil and political rights.
Around 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s workforce are informally employed and there are generally three reasons to be concerned about high informality: poverty, productivity and public finance, a new report says.
LONDON/DUBLIN - Britain and the European Union will make a last-ditch attempt to strike a post-Brexit trade deal this week, with probably just days left for negotiators to avert a chaotic parting of ways at the end of the year.
LONDON - Scientists and doctors say the mass coronavirus vaccination campaign that started in Britain this week represents a major milestone in the fight against COVID-19, although big challenges remain in producing and distributing enough vaccines to end the global pandemic.
Britain will be the first country to roll out the Pfizer - BioNTech coronavirus vaccine – the first Western nation to do so, the government announced Sunday.
Korea extended its fullest support to the Government of Sri Lanka especially in coordinating the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Republic of Korea today donated COVID-19 test kits to Sri Lanka to mark the 43rd Anniversary of the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and Sri Lanka, the Korean Embassy in Sri Lanka said.
The event was held at the Foreign Ministry in Colombo and was attended by Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, State Minister of Regional Cooperation Tharaka Balasuriya, Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Santhush Woonjin JEONG.
Delivering the welcoming remarks, Rohana Ambagolla Director General of East Asia, stated that the donation of PCR test kits reflects the unwavering commitment of the Republic of Korea to take our bilateral relations to new heights.
BRUSSELS - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the head of the European Commission plan to meet in person to see whether a last-minute trade deal can be reached, officials said Monday.
ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ උප ජනාධිපති ලෙස වැඩ බාරගැනීමට නියමිත කමලා හැරිස්ගේ අභ්‍යන්තර ප්‍රතිපත්ති උපදේශිකාව ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සම්භවයක් ඇති රෝහිණි කොසොග්ලු පත්කර ඇතැයි වාර්තා වේ.
Indian doctors have found lead and nickel in the blood of patients who have succumbed to a mysterious illness in the southern part of the country.
India has pledged to take prompt action in settling Indian fishermen’s issue of deep sea fishing which has aggravated to poaching in Sri Lanka territorial waters badly hitting the country's fisher folk livelihood.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - The Trump administration has chosen not to extend again an order requiring ByteDance, a Chinese company, to divest TikTok's U.S. assets, but talks will continue over the video-sharing app's fate, two sources briefed on the matter said.
2021 වසර මිනිසා මුහුණ දෙන මහා ව්‍යවසනකාරීම වසර’ වනු ඇති බව ලෝක ආහාර වැඩසටහනේ ප්‍රධානී ඩේවිඩ් බීස්ලි විසින් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහා මණ්ඩලයට අනතුරු අඟවා තිබේ. සමස්ත ලෝකයම කොවිඩ් 19 වයිරසයට එරෙහිව සටනට පිවිස සිටින අවස්ථාවේ ආහාර නොමැතිව සාගතයට ගොදුරු වූවන් සංඛ්‍යාව මේ වන විට මිලියන 270ක් දක්වා වර්ධනය වී ඇති බවද ඩේවිඩ් බීස්ලි සඳහන් කරයි.
දරුණු අභියෝග මධ්‍යයේ වුවද, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය දේශපාලන හා සමාජ-ආර්ථික ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයන්හි ලබා ඇති ජයග්‍රහණ පිළිබඳව කියුබානු රජයේ ප්‍රසාදය පළ කරයි.
Russia launched its coronavirus vaccine initiative Saturday to contain the disease that is spreading at a record pace.
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