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The vaccine producer AstraZeneca must "catch up" on its promised deliveries to the EU before exporting doses elsewhere, the bloc's chief has said.

OHCHR to appoint investigators, legal advisors
Funds awaited for more staff and related work
UN seeks over $2,856 million
Sri Lanka may face long term repercussions
Future dealings with over 40 cosponsors at risk

ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් මණ්ඩලයේ 46 වන සැසිවාරයට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පිලිබඳව යෝජනාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන ජන්ද විමසීම මිට සුළු මොහොතකට පෙර සම්මත වුවා.

The long-term security and prosperity of Sri Lanka depends on respecting human rights today, the US Government said, as it announced its co-sponsorship of the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka which was adopted on Tuesday.

The High Commission of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Pakistani community based in Sri Lanka celebrated the 81st National Day of Pakistan with traditional fervour and resolve to make Pakistan a strong, vibrant, progressive, democratic and welfare state.

OIC හෙවත් ඉස්ලාමීය සහයෝගිතාව සංවිධානයේ මහලේකම් ආචාර්ය යූසුෆ් ඔතයිමීන් තහවුරු කරන්නේ තමන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජනාධිපතිවරයා සමග දුරකතන සංවාදයක නිරත වෙමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හා සබඳතා පුළුල් කර ගැනීමට මෙන්ම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වෙසෙන මුස්ලිම් ජනතාවගේ තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳව සොයා බැලීමටත් කතාබහ කළ බවය.

UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet has expressed hope that Sri Lanka would “change course” from current policies as she welcomed the decision of the Human Rights Council to ramp up monitoring of human rights and war-time abuses in the island.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena was yesterday upbeat about the number of votes received by Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and insisted the Government would not deviate from a domestic mechanism despite adoption of the resolution.

ඇමරිකාව, යුරෝපා සංගමය, බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය සහ කැනඩාව එක්ව චීනයේ,බලධාරීන් රැසකට සම්බාධක පනවා තිබේ. රොයිටර් පුවත් සේවය වාර්තා කරන්නේ ෂින් ජියෑන්ග් ප්‍රාන්තයේ උයිගුර් සුලුතරයට එරෙහිව සිදුවන මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝනය වීම් පදනම් කරගෙන ගමන් තහනම් ඇතුලු මෙම සම්බාධක පනවා ඇති බවයි.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena will make a special statement to Parliament today, giving the Government’s reaction to the resolution on Sri Lanka, which was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday.

Amnesty International called the UN Resolution “landmark”, saying it marked a crucial turning point on justice and accountability in Sri Lanka.

Russia has agreed to provide its Sputnik V anti COVID-19 vaccine to Sri Lanka at US9.95 dollars per dose and a purchase order for 6.5 million vaccines will be made soon, the Daily Mirror learns.

LONDON - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the United States' commitment to NATO as he sought to strengthen the transatlantic relationship in a two-day summit this week in Brussels, which wrapped up Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Officials in Pakistan confirmed Tuesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan had received a rare “message of goodwill” from his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, the latest in a series of moves signaling rapprochement between the nuclear-armed rival countries.

The dispatch of 600,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine will be handed over to the Sri Lankan side in Beijing in one week’s time, to be delivered here for roll-out, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy said.

WHITE HOUSE - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden highlighted the gap in pay between American men and women in an event marking Equal Pay Day on Wednesday with members of the U.S. national women's soccer team.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - North Korea conducted a short-range projectile launch several days ago, according to U.S. officials, in what appears to be Pyongyang's first missile-related activity this year.

The United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on top officials in Myanmar who are linked to last month's military coup, as anti-coup protesters took to the streets again, despite the regime’s violent and increasingly deadly pushback.