International Affairs

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi sat down with VOA’s Ayesha Tanzeem this week for an exclusive interview to discuss the impact on the region of the United States withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan, how Pakistan sees its future relationship with its western neighbor, and whether putting forward a resolution in parliament to expel the French ambassador from the country, over French support for publication of caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, is dangerous.

India supports the call of international community for the Sri Lankan government to fulfill its commitments on devolution of political authority including through early holding of elections to provincial councils, according to S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister.

හමුදාපති ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වාට මැග්නිට්ස් සම්බාධක පනත යටතේ සම්බාධක සහ තහංචි පනවන ලෙස ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ ඉහළ පෙළේ නිලධාරිනියක් වන යස්මින් සුකා බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇත.

Ambassador of Norway to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Trine Jøranli Eskedal with Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda and State Minister of Ornamental Fish, Inland Fish and Prawn Farming Kanchana Wijesekera

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will attend the opening ceremony of the annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) 2021 via video link today.

The number of people who have died worldwide in the Covid-19 pandemic has surpassed three million, according to Johns Hopkins University.

We must not forget that the Russian Federation was amongst the first countries to assist Sri Lanka in establishing its industrial base, and at that time the three industrial projects, Ceylon Steel Corporation, along with Ceylon Tire Corporation and Ceylon Sugar Corporation, were established in Sri Lanka with the assistance of Soviet Union,” Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in Parliament recently.

ANNAPOLIS, MD - Ahead of this week’s White House Leaders Summit on Climate, the United States is reaffirming fighting climate change as a top foreign policy priority, as it hopes to drive a green energy revolution. 

U.S. President Joe Biden says he and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are committed to working together to counter challenges from China and North Korea, following Biden's first White House summit since taking office.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday called on the Boao Forum for Asia member states to make Sri Lanka a destination appropriate for investments.

India's health ministry Monday announced a record 273,810 new COVID cases in the previous 24-hour period while officials in the capital, New Delhi, announced a weeklong lockdown.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Friday announced that the country would begin easing some of its stricter COVID-19 restrictions April 26.

තත්ත්පර කීපයක් ඇතුළතදී කොවිඩ් වයිරසය හඳුනා ගත හැකි පරීක්ෂාවක් හඳුන්වා දීමට ඇමෙරිකා නිව් මෙක්සිකෝ ප්‍රාන්තයේ සමාගමක සේවයේ නියුතු මෙරට විද්‍යාඥවරියක් ඇතුළු කණ්ඩායමක් සමත් වී ඇත.

ISLAMABAD - Clashes between a recently banned Islamist party and police in Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, reportedly left at least two people dead and scores of others wounded Sunday.

A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has submitted a 50-page dossier on Army Commander General Shavendra Silva to the Sanctions Department of the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

ඉන්දියාවේ හිටපු අගමැති මන්මෝහන් සිංටද කොවිඩ් ආසාදනය වී ඇතැයි එන්ඩීටීවී ඇතුළු ඉන්දීය ජනමාධ්‍ය ආයතන වාර්තා කරයි.

NEW DELHI - For a second time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, rural migrants in India are packing buses and trains to head back to their villages as cities such as Delhi and Mumbai reimpose restrictions to control an unprecedented surge in infections.

Sri Lanka is yet to set a date as to when it will begin the second round of COVID-19 vaccinations as India is yet to confirm if it can cater to the Sri Lankan Government's urgent request to export one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Daily Mirror learns.