International Affairs

A day after Britain failed to include Sri Lanka in a list of countries from where visitors will not be required to undergo a mandatory 14 day quarantine, the British Foreign Office lifted a global travel advise on a number of countries except Sri Lanka and other countries seen as unsafe because of the coronavirus.

ක්‍රිකට් ලෝක කුසලාන 2011 අවසන් මහා තරඟය පාවා දුන් බවට කිසිදු සැකයක් නොමැති බව ICC දූෂණ විරෝධී ඒකකයේ සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී ඇලෙක්ස් මාෂල් ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටිනවා.

පාස්කු ප්‍රහාර සම්බන්ධයෙන් සැකපිට අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන සිටින නීතිඥ හිජාස් හිස්බුල්ලා රඳවා තබාගැනීම සහ විශේෂ බළකායේ සැරයන් සුනිල් රත්නායකට ‘ජනාධිපති සමාව’ ලබාදීම ඇතුළු කරුණු ගණනාවක් පදනම් කරගනිමින් එක්සත් රාජධානිය ඇතුළු රටවල් පහක කණ්ඩායමක් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට චෝදනා එල්ල කර ඇත.

GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality.

The United Nations in New York belatedly commemorated the International Day of Vesak virtually on 2nd July 2020, the Foreign Ministry said today.

UK Visas and Immigration is beginning a phased resumption of services at select Visa Application Centres in 11 cities in India from 06 July 2020, namely Ahmedabad, Bengaluru (Global Tech Park only), Chandigarh, Chennai (subject to local lockdown regulations), Jalandhar, Kochi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai (Mahalaxmi only), New Delhi (Shivaji Metro Stadium only), and Pune.

President Donald Trump kicked off a “Salute to America” Saturday night on the grounds of the White House with a speech that took on the “angry mob” as he revisited the language and themes of his address a night earlier at Mount Rushmore.

කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරසය හේතුවෙන් ශ්‍රමිකයන් විදේශ රැකියා සඳහා යොමු වන්නේ කෙසේද යන්න පිළිබඳව, ලෝක කම්කරු සංවිධානයේ නියෝජිතයන් සමඟ නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, රැකීරක්ෂා හා කම්කරු සබඳතා
අමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වන ලදී.

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදී ඇති ණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉන්දියාව මේ දිනවල දැඩි අවධානයක් යොමුකරමින් ඇතැයි ඉන්දීය මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කරනවා.

The United Kingdom announced yesterday (Friday) that tourists from over 50 countries and territories will be able to visit the UK from Friday, July 10, without facing a mandatory 14-day quarantine period upon arrival.

The United Kingdom said extraordinary measures to tackle the COVID19 pandemic should not be used by Sri Lanka to roll back human rights.

The UN Core Group on Sri Lanka yesterday called on Sri Lanka to ensure that the country’s democratic space remains open and accountable, and called for detentions and arrests to follow due process and be compliant with international norms and universal rights.

Ambassador Majintha Jayesinghe presented Letters of Credence to Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen, Federal President of the Republic of Austria, at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna accrediting as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sri Lanka to Austria on 30 June.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has urged the Sri Lanka Government to follow “due process” if it intended to shift from Japanese funding for the Colombo light rail transit system (LRT) to a public-private partnership.

Chiyo Kanda has been appointed as the new World Bank’s new Country Manager for Sri Lanka.

Morris Copeland, of the Strategic Urban Response to Guideline Education group, center, passes out kits to be distributed to residents in COVID-19 hot spots, July 1, 2020, in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami.

Responding to views expressed by the UNHRC’s Core Group on Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Government today urged all parties to appreciate the country's approach of focusing on deliverable measures of reconciliation and to recognise the ground realities.

The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate worldwide and countries must use a comprehensive approach to bring it under control.