International Affairs

Note sent after talks between two sides
Extradition request still under consideration

The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) European director Thursday called Britain’s approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine “phenomenal” but urged Europeans to remain vigilant.

India will take several meaningful steps to narrow the trade gap between the two countries, said Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of the Republic of India Nirmala Sitharaman, who was the guest of Honour at the opening day of the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2020 yesterday.

Singapore Airlines will resume flights to and from Colombo from tomorrow (Sunday) after a lapse of nine months.

European Union member states will lose their technology-led supremacy unless they are prepared to invest more in innovation and development, the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell has told Euronews.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has announced its Chang'e-5 spacecraft, designed to collect lunar samples and return them to Earth, successfully landed on the near side of the moon.

BURLINGTON, VT. - By late morning on Oct. 28, staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center noticed the hospital's phone system wasn't working.

NEW YORK - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that “the planet is broken” and made an urgent appeal for a course correction to avert a climate catastrophe.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Tuesday it expects the global economy to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic next year and grow as much as 4.2%.

NEW YORK - The head of the World Health Organization said Friday that with a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, nations must start investing and preparing for the next pandemic.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Delegates of warring sides in Afghanistan announced Wednesday they had agreed on a framework for their peace negotiations aimed at ending the country’s protracted conflict.

වෙළඳ, ආර්ථික, සංස්කෘතික හා මානුෂීය ක්ෂේත්‍රයන්හි අන්‍යෝන්‍ය වශයෙන් වාසිදායක සහයෝගීතාව තවදුරටත් පුළුල් කිරීමට අධිෂ්ඨාන කරගෙන සිටින බව රුසියානු ජනාධිපති වැල්ඩ්මීර් පුටින් මහතා සඳහන් කළේය.

තමන් ජනාධිපතිධූරයට පත්වී පළමු දින 100 ඇතුළත් මුඛ ආවරණ පළඳින ලෙස සියලූ අමෙරිකානුවන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කරන බව අමෙරිකාවට තේරීපත්වූ නව ජනාධිපති ජෝ බයිඞ්න් පවසනවා. අමෙරිකානු පුවත් සේවයක් සමග පැවැති සම්මුඛ සාකච්ජාවකට එක්වෙමින් නව ජනාධිපතිවරයා පැවසුවේ දින 100 ක් වැනි කෙටි කාලයක් තුලදී මුඛ ආවරණ පැළඳීමට අමෙරිකානුවන් පෙළඹුනහොත්, කොරෝනා ව්‍යාප්තියේ සැලකිය යුතු අඩුවීමක් ඉන් සිදුවනු ඇති බවයි.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $400 million loan to support the Government of Sri Lanka in transforming its secondary education system to align with the demand for highly skilled and agile workers who can compete in the rapidly changing global economy.

LONDON, AFP: London Police said yesterday they have launched an investigation into alleged war crimes by British mercenaries who trained a security force accused of brutalising Tamil people during Sri Lanka’s civil war.

NEW YORK - The U.N. secretary-general said Thursday that the damage COVID-19 has done globally will not be undone by a vaccine alone, and that a full recovery will take years, possibly decades.

The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use.

ISLAMABAD - The pachyderm dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant” arrived in Cambodia Monday, following his rescue from a Pakistani zoo.