International Affairs
Israelis who have received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine saw their risk of illness from the coronavirus drop 98.5% and their risk of hospitalization drop 98.9%, the country’s Health Ministry said Saturday.
For the first time in the history of the Indian Premier League, no Sri Lankan cricketers will feature in the tournament which is expected to be held in India, from April till the first week of June.
A planned address to Parliament by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been scrapped over COVID- 19 concerns, parliament sources said.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will arrive in Sri Lanka on Tuesday with a high-powered business and investment delegation and will participate in a business and investment forum, a statement from the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Prime Minister Khan is scheduled to undertake an official visit to Sri Lanka on 23-24 February on the invitation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Two airlines that had suspended flights to Sri Lanka due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have resumed their operations,BIA duty officer said.
The U.N. secretary-general called on the world’s largest economies Wednesday to create a task force to plan and coordinate a global COVID-19 vaccination plan.
The Core Group, consisting of the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, North Macedonia, Malawi and Montenegro, issuing a joint statement yesterday, said it intends to present a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to “promote reconciliation, accountability and human rights” in Sri Lanka.
Facebook is facing mounting criticism after it blocked news content in Australia amid a dispute with the government over a planned law.
Sri Lanka will open new embassies in Spain, Romania as well as a Consulate General Office in Madagascar, Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena informed the consultative committee on the Ministry.
The Government has sought India’s support at the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), where a resolution on the country is being mooted.
The United States (US) has expressed disappointment with Sri Lanka’s discriminatory cremation policy.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and the Government of Sri Lanka have welcomed a funding of CAD 1 million (Rs. 151 million) from Global Affairs Canada to help smallholder farmers cultivate nutritious crops for the National School Meal Program.
President Joe Biden toured a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing plant Friday afternoon outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he touted the safety of the vaccine.
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පැවැති තිස් වසරක යුද්ධය 2009 වසරේ මැයි මසදී අවසන් කිරීම හේතුවෙන් වියරු වැටී සිටින කොටි ඩයස්පෝරාව ඇතුළු අධිරාජ්‍යයවාදී බලවේග රට බෙදුම්වවාදී ත්‍රස්ථවාදීන්ගෙන් බේරාගත් අභිත රණවිරුවන් මෙම මස 22 දා සිට ජිනිවා හි පවත්වන ජාත්‍යන්තර මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම් සභා සැසිවාරයේදි රණවිරුවන් මනුෂ්‍ය ඝාතනය කලා යැයි අභුත චෝදනා නගමින් පෝරකයට නැංවීමට දරණ උත්සාහයට එරෙහිව ප්‍රංශයේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක අතිපූජ්‍ය ගරැ පරවාහැර චන්දරතන නාහිමිපාණන්ගේ අනුශාසකත්වයෙන් ප්‍රංශයේ වාසය කරන ජාතිමාමක සහ දේශ හිතෛෂී ශ්‍රිලාංකිකයින් විශාල පිරිසකගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් ඊයේ දින (පෙබරවාරි 17දා) සවස 2 සිට 4 දක්වා ප්‍රංශයේ විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය ඉදිරිපිට දැවැන්ත උද්ඝෝෂණයක් පවත්වන ලදි.
Japanese Ambassador Sugiyama Akira on Tuesday presented anti-terrorism surveillance and investigation vehicles to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat Office.
CAIRO - Iranian media reported tentative steps by the U.S. and its European allies in the P5+1 group, which negotiated the original 2015 nuclear accord with Tehran, to resume adherence to that deal and back away from Trump administration policies, including the 2018 reimposition of economic sanctions.
JOHANNESBURG - Africa’s viral epicenter, South Africa, confirmed Tuesday that it is jettisoning plans to use the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and will switch to a different one. That announcement came a day after the vaccine, which is the leading choice for the developing world, was cleared for emergency use authorization from the World Health Organization.
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