International Affairs

Britain's Prince Charles paid a personal tribute Saturday to his "dear papa" Prince Philip, saying the royal family missed him enormously and that the 99-year-old would have been amazed at the touching reaction around the world to his death.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - The World Health Organization says Africa’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccine is being hampered by supply shortages and delays in planned deliveries. To date, the WHO reports 4.3 million cases of COVID-19 in Africa, including 114,000 deaths.

Saudi authorities said Monday that only people immunised against COVID-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round Umrah pilgrimage, starting from the holy month of Ramadan.

State Minister of Money, Capital Market and Public Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal and Sultanate of Oman Deputy Prime Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Affairs Sayyid Asaad bin Tariq al Said held a special meeting yesterday.

Several nations have issued new guidelines over the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after the European Union’s medical regulator announced a link between the vaccine and rare, possibly fatal blood clots.

A trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine on children has stopped giving out jabs while the UK's medicines regulator investigates a possible link with rare blood clots in adults.

On the streets of Rome, frustrations with pandemic curbs boiled over this week as desperate protesters, many of them restaurant owners and small-business owners, complained that restrictions and repeated lockdowns aimed at suppressing the transmission of the coronavirus are ruining them.

රුසියානු කොවිඩ්-19 එන්නත වන ස්පුට්නික් වී (sputnik v) ඉන්දියාවේ පැනසියා බයෝටෙක් (Panacea Biotec) නිෂ්පාදන සමාගම හරහා නිපදවීම ආරම්භ කර තිබේ. මෙලෙස ඉන්දියානු නිෂ්පාදකයා හරහා නිපදවීමට අපේක්ෂා කරන රුසියානු එන්නත් මාත්‍රා සංඛ්‍යාව මිලියන 100කි.

Reuters: Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed three million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the latest global resurgence of COVID-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the globe.

LONDON - World leaders and members of the public have offered tributes to Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, who died Friday at the age of 99.

Sri Lanka and Afghanistan today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the establishment of a political consultations mechanism between the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan.

European leaders hope the start Tuesday of indirect talks in Vienna between the United States and Iran about reviving an international deal to limit Tehran’s nuclear capabilities, will realign Washington and European policy toward the Islamic Republic.

නව්‍ය කොරෝනා වෛරසයේ ව්‍යාප්තිය ආරම්භ වීමෙන් පසුව ඉන්දියාවෙන් හඳුනා ගැනුණු වැඩිම කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින් පිරිස ඊයේ හඳුනාගෙන තිබෙනවා. ඒ අනුව ඊයේ දිනයේදී පමණක් ඉන්දියාවෙන් හඳුනාගෙන ඇති කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින් ගණන එක් ලක්ෂ 31, 893 ක් වන බවයි එරට මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කරන්නේ. ඊයේ දිනයේදී පමණක් ඉන්දියාවෙන් කොරෝනා මරණ 802 ක් වාර්තා වී තිබෙනවා.

ISLAMABAD - Russia reaffirmed Wednesday it will enhance security cooperation with Pakistan by strengthening the South Asian nation's "potential" to fight terrorism, which is to include supplying Islamabad with the "relevant military" hardware.

WASHINGTON - The global economy is recovering faster than expected from the coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday.

The United States yesterday called on policymakers to be vigilant of the economic impact of the proposed Port City legislation, given its sweeping tax concessions and warned it could have “unintended consequences”, such as money laundering, unless proper safeguards are put in place.

The European Union’s medical regulator concluded Wednesday that unusual and potentially fatal blood clots should be listed as a very rare side effect of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

වසර 2036 වන තෙක් රුසියාවේ නායකයත්වය හෙබවීමට හැකි වන සේ ජනපති ව්ලැදිමීර් පුටින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කළේය.