International Affairs

The remittance flow to Sri Lanka is projected to decline by 19% due to the economic crisis induced by Covid-19 pandemic and shutdown, according to a World Bank report published yesterday (22).

WHITE HOUSE - Amid the coronavirus pandemic there will be a pause of at least 60 days in the issuance of green cards, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday – a move that will potentially close the country off to tens of thousands of people.

London: US oil prices crashed to unprecedented lows Monday as futures in New York ended in negative territory for the first time amid a devastating supply glut that has forced traders to pay others to take the commodity.

කොවිඩ්-19 වෛසරය සඳහා බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය විසින් නිපදවූ එන්නතක් අද (23වැනිදා) නිල වශයෙන් මනුෂ්‍යයින් යොදාගෙන සායනිකව අත්හදා බැලීමට නියමිතය.

The United States today said that it stands with Sri Lanka in the commitment to counter terrorism.

In a step to repatriate foreign nationals from Pakistan and bring back countrymen stranded abroad, Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Saturday allowed Sri Lanka and South Africa to operate special flights to the country, ARY News reported.

ත්‍රිකුණාමලයේ පිහිටි තෙල් ටැංකි සංකීරණයේ ඇති ටැංකි දහයක් නැවත ලබා ගැනීමට රජය කළ ඉල්ලීමක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පිහිටි ඉන්දීය තානාපති කාර්යාල‌යෙන් යහපත් ප්‍රතිචාරයක් ලැබී නැති බව විදුලිබල අමාත්‍යංශ ආරංචි මාර්ග පවසයි.

Sri Lankan fishermen, who venture on high seas for 'multi-day fishing', are caught poaching in Seychelles waters, news agency report revealed.

President Goatabaya Rajapaksa today thanked China for supporting Sri Lanka’s efforts in the fight against the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa briefed UNESCO’s Cultural Ministers on the steps taken by Sri Lanka to protect the cultural sector in the face of the ongoing global pandemic.

කොරෝනා වෛරසය වැළදී ඇත්දැයි සොයා බැලීමේ පරීක්ෂණ අඩුම ප්‍රමාණයක් කරන ලද රටවල් අතර ශ්‍රී සිටින බව https://www.worldometers.info/ වෙබ් අඩවිය පෙන්වා දෙයි.

New Delhi/Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged Fox News report that the novel coronavirus (nCoV) may have been accidentally leaked by an intern working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

In a humanitarian and health welfare gesture the Japanese Government has granted a total sum of USD 1,212,500 (approx. Rs. 230 million) through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to tackle the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka.

The United Nations (UN) stresses that no one should be left behind in the response to the COVID- 19 global threat.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to review the current funding program provided to Sri Lanka.

There is no plan to send the Indian Army to Sri Lanka for whatever purpose, sources from the Indian High Commission in Colombo said today.

The Acting High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Vinod K. Jacob called on the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Dinesh Gunawardena in Colombo yesterday.

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