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The world has set a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases confirmed across the globe with more than 350,000, according to the World Health Organization.

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Sri Lanka Ambassador to Luxembourg Grace Asirwatham during her visit to Luxembourg met with Secretary General of Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) Maurice Bauer.

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Sri Lanka is still engaged in discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with regard to its request seeking a Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) from the Fund, according to an IMF official.

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A Trump administration official leading the response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.S. can expect delivery of a vaccine starting in January 2021, despite statements from the president that inoculations could begin this month.

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A high-powered Chinese delegation led by the former Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will arrive in Sri Lanka today and will only meet with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa due to COVID-19 infection concerns, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement yesterday.

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එක්සත් ජනපද ජනාධිපතිවරණය උඩු යටිකුරු වී ඇත.

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A Delhi police volunteer holds a mobile phone for a health worker as she takes an urgent call during testing for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Saturday, 2020.
The world now has more than 36 million cases of the coronavirus.   

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Cabinet this week approved utilising a $ 400 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to make key reforms to Sri Lanka’s education system including developing secondary schools, increase the numbers of teachers and raising the number of national schools to 1000.

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අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මොහොමඩ් අලි සබ්රි මහතා සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉතාලි තානාපතිනී රීටා ජී. මැනෙල්ලා (Rita Giuliana Manella) මහත්මිය අතර හමුවක් අධිකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශයේදී පැවත්විණි.

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Sri Lanka’s Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Philippines Shobini Gunasekera paid a courtesy call on President of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Ambassador Benedicto V. Yujuico on 1 October in order to allow Filipino investors to invest in Sri Lanka’s tea, gemstones, jewellery, food processing and agriculture.

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OAKLAND, CALIF. - Facebook said it will ban groups that "represent" QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that paints President Donald Trump as a secret warrior against a supposed child-trafficking ring run by celebrities and "deep state" government officials.

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වසර 4 යි හා මාස 10ක් සිය මුල් සේවා කාලය නිම කර මෙරටට පැමිණ සිටින කොරියානු රැකියාලාභීන් නැවත තමන් පෙර සේවය කල ස්ථානයේම සේවයට පිටත් කිරීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙලක් යටතේ 1008 වන කණ්ඩායම කොරියානු ගුවන් සේවයට අයත් යානයක් මෙරටින් පිටව යාමට නියමිතය. කොරෝනා වසංගත කාලය තුළ එලෙස පිටවන 2වන කණ්ඩායම මොවුන් වන අතර, රැකියා ලාභීන් 36 දෙනෙකු ඇතුළත් වේ.

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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon offered no additional details on Afghanistan Thursday, a day after President Donald Trump tweeted that all U.S. forces in the South Asian nation should return home before the end of the year.

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WHITE HOUSE - In a video released Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump termed his catching COVID-19 a “blessing in disguise.”

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Sri Lanka has exported close to $3 billion worth of goods to the United States in 2019. A whopping 72 percent increase over the past decade.

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පදනම් කර ගනිමින් චීනය සහ අමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය අතර මත ගැටුමක් උද්ගතව තිබේ. මීට හේතුවී ඇත්තේ කොළඹ එක්සත් ජනපද තානාපතිනි ඇලයිනා ටෙප්ලිට්ස් දේශීය පුවත්පතකට ලබාදුන් සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවකදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ව්‍යාපෘති චීනයට පමණක් ලබාදෙන බව පවසමින් කර තිබූ ප්‍රකාශයකි.

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(Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit surged in August to the largest in 14 years with imports climbing again, suggesting that trade could be a drag on economic growth in the third quarter.

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ලොව පුරා සිටින පුද්ගලයින්ගෙන් දස දෙනෙකුගෙන් එක් අයෙකුට කොරෝනා වෛරසය ආසාදනය වී ඇතැයි ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය පවසනවා.