International Affairs

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today as India celebrated 74 years of independence.

WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities have seized millions of dollars and hundreds of virtual currency accounts used to funnel money to al-Qaida, Islamic State (IS) and Hamas’s military wing, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday called Senator Kamala Harris, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, “the kind of opponent everyone dreams of.”

WASHINGTON - The struggle to make a future for thousands of captured Islamic State fighters and their families currently in makeshift prisons and overcrowded displaced persons camps across northeastern Syria may be starting to erode key partnerships in the fight against the terror group.

WILMINGTON, DEL. - Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden is calling for a national mask mandate to cut the number of future deaths from the coronavirus in the United States.  

කොවිඩ් 19 ගෝලීය වසංගත තත්ත්වයෙන් පසු ලොව රටවල් කිහිපයක් විදේශ ශ්‍රමිකයින් රැකියා සඳහා බඳවා ගැනීම තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටවු නමුත් මැලේසියාව ගෘහ සහයකයින් සඳහා රැකියා වීසා ලබාදීමට පියවර ගෙන ඇති බව විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් සඳහන් කළේය.

අමෙරිකානු ඩිමොක‍්‍රටික් පක්ෂ අපේක්ෂක ජෝ බයිඩන් විසින් සිය උප ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂිකාව ලෙස කමලා හැරිස් නම් කර තිබෙනවා.

China’s civil aviation regulator has announced that an Etihad Airways’ Abu Dhabi-Shanghai flight, a China Eastern Airlines’ Manila-Shanghai flight, and a SriLankan Airlines’ Colombo-Shanghai flight, would be suspended after several passengers tested positive for COVID-19 on recent flights, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Facebook announced new regulations Tuesday that prevent U.S. publishers with demonstrated ties to political groups from running advertisements that look like news reports on the social networking site.

චීනයේ නගර දෙකක් වෙත ආනයනය කරන ලද ශිතකළ ආහාර ද්‍රව්‍ය මත තිබී නව කොරෝනා වෛරසය හමුවූ බව එරට බලධාරින් සඳහන් කර සිටිනවා.

කොවිඩ් – 19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය හේතුවෙන්, සයිප්‍රස් රාජ්‍යයේ රැකියා සඳහා යොමුවන ශ්‍රමිකයින් එරටට පැමිණීමට ප්‍රථම කොව්ඩ් 19 වැළඳී නොමැති බවට තහවුරුවක් ලබා ගත යුතු අතර, එම පරික්ෂණ වාර්තාවේ අනිවාර්යෙන් අඩංගු විය යුතු කරුණු පිළිබඳව සයිප්‍රස් රජය විසින් දැනුම් දී ඇත.

WASHINGTON - Five U.S. states are holding an array of elections on Tuesday, with Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a staunch critic of President Donald Trump, facing a stiff challenge in a Democratic primary in her Minneapolis district.

Pakistan says it wants to strengthen ties with Sri Lanka through close cooperation in diverse areas.

Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi yesterday sent his congratulation message to Dinesh Gunawardena for the latter being reappointed as the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka and Russia have had talks ahead of Russia announcing it had discovered the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine.

Chinese nationals are no longer required to know English to apply for Sri Lankan tourist visas as a result of a newly signed agreement between the Sri Lankan Immigration Department and China travel specialist Travelzen International Travel Service (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

Two top U.S. health officials are expressing skepticism about Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russian scientists have come up with the world’s first safe and effective vaccine.

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess.