International Affairs

Attorney General William Barr, one of President Donald Trump's staunchest allies, is resigning amid lingering tension with the president over the president's baseless claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden's son.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ordered a Christmas lockdown amid an alarming rise in coronavirus cases in the country.

Norwegian Ambassador Trine Jøranli Eskedal and Deputy Head of Mission Hilde Berg-Hansen, called on WFP Sri Lanka Country Director Brenda Barton, for a joint celebration of WFP being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

WASHINGTON - With the casting of their Electoral College votes Monday, electors formally gave Joe Biden more than the 270 electoral votes needed to certify his election victory.

Germany has increased funding for demining in Sri Lanka, the German Embassy in Colombo announced. .

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a $ 9 billion vaccine initiative—the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX)—offering rapid and equitable support to its developing members as they procure and deliver effective and safe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines.

චීනය මගින් නිෂ්පාදනය කරන කොවිඩ් එන්නතේ සාර්ථකභාවය පිළිබඳ වාර්තාවක් ලබාදෙන ලෙස කොවිඩ් මර්දන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය චීනයේ පිහිටි ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති කාර්යාලයට දැනුම් දී තිබේ. චීනයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති ආචාර්ය පාලිත කොහොන වෙත ලිපියක් යොමු කරමින් මෙම වාර්තාව ඉල්ලා සිටි බව රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය අමල් හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා කියා සිටියේය.

කලාපීය සහයෝගීතා රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය තාරක බාලසුරිය මැතිතුමා, 13 වැනි බාලි ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී සංසදය (BDF) අමතමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සහ කලාපයේ පුරවැසියන්ගේ සෞඛ්‍යය සහතික කිරීම සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දක්වන කැපවීම අවධාරණය කළේය. “ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය තහවුරු කිරීම: කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය” යන මාතෘකාව යටතේ 2020 දෙසැම්බර් 10 වැනි දින පැවති අමාත්‍යවරුන්ගේ මණ්ඩලයේ දී එතුමා මේ බව පැවසීය. කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය වැළැක්වීම හා එලෙස පවත්වාගෙන යාම පිණිස රටවල රාජ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්ති බෙදාහදා ගැනීම කෙරෙහි මෙම අමාත්‍යවරුන්ගේ මණ්ඩලය අවධානය යොමු කළේය.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says action and money are needed to ensure coronavirus vaccines are available around the world as Western nations approve them.

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea welcomes you to participate in the ‘Korea Week 2020’ which is a virtual celebration of Korean cultural aspects including K-pop, Taekwondo, Korean language and Korean cuisine. It will be held from 14 to 20 December.

All South East Asian countries have taken concerted action to strengthen the delivery of noncommunicable disease (NCD) services at the primary level in line with the 2016 Colombo Declaration, WHO South East Asia Director Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh said yesterday.

European Union leaders say the most likely outcome after months of fractious haggling with London is that Britain will leave the bloc at the end of the year without a trade and security deal — an upshot that will have serious economic repercussions on both sides of the English Channel and could poison relations between the EU and the British for years to come.

Sri Lanka has endured its fair share of hardships, but that hasn’t fazed travellers who have just voted it the world’s best island according to popular Australian publication Escape.

LONDON - Trade talks between Britain and the European Union continued into the night Saturday ahead of the latest make-or-break deadline, as the Royal Navy readied armed ships to patrol U.K. fishing waters in case of a no-deal Brexit.

The United States launched a new Rs. 3.6 billion ($ 19.5 million) initiative to help small businesses and economically empower Sri Lankan women.

The UK and EU have agreed to carry on post-Brexit trade talks after a call between leaders earlier on Sunday.

The first coronavirus vaccine will begin arriving early Monday in U.S. states after the government approved a vaccine late Friday for emergency use as the COVID-19 death toll approached 300,000.

Sri Lanka’s second wave of COVID-19 pandemic is expected to worsen the contraction of the economy in 2020, the latest outlook on Asia by the multilateral lender ADB has warned.