International Affairs

Russia launched its coronavirus vaccine initiative Saturday to contain the disease that is spreading at a record pace.

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.

China stands ready to lift the bilateral relations to a new high through close cooperation with Sri Lanka,and promote the strategic synergy of the Belt and Road initiative with Sri Lanka’s ‘Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour, Sri Lanka foreign ministry announced.

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.

කොටි සංවිධානය සමග දැඩි සබඳතා පැවැත්වූ රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ප‍්‍රධානියකු මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමේ සාමාජිකයකු ලෙස නිර්දේශ වී ඇතැයි ඉහළ පෙළේ බුද්ධි අංශ ආරංචි මාර්ග ඊයේ 4 දා හෙළි කළේය.

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.

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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%.