International Affairs

The Group of 20 virtual summit vowed Sunday to spare no effort in making a COVID-19 vaccine widely available to all populations.

MINSK (BelTA): Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has extended greetings to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the two countries celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relatioans, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

LONDON (Reuters) - Israel, Uruguay and Sri Lanka were added to England's safe travel list on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to name the first members of his Cabinet on Tuesday, a key aide said Sunday, even as President Donald Trump urged on Republicans to help him in his longshot legal effort to overturn his re-election defeat.

MINSK (BelTA): Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has extended greetings to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the two countries celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relatioans, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

Stresses trade is not a one-way street and import restrictions having a negative impact on Sri Lankan and EU biz, FDI and impairs Sri Lanka’s efforts to become a regional hub
The European Union yesterday reiterated support for Sri Lanka, but urged the lifting of restrictions on imports, whilst calling for rule of law and fostering of a vibrant civil society.

Border measures and entry restrictions for Sri Lankans travelling Singapore have been relaxed by the Health Ministry of that country.

Ambassadors seek clarifications and likely timeframe for lifting of restrictions

A "tough" six months lies ahead for Europe, which is again the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.

The pandemic and the twin crisis of economic recession dominated the first day of the two-day virtual summit of the top 20 industrial and emerging-market countries. It concludes Sunday under host Saudi Arabia.

KHARTOUM - Sudanese health authorities say a total lockdown is not out of the question after a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases across the country over the past four weeks.

වැඩිහිටි පුද්ගලයින් සඳහා ශක්තිමත් ප්‍රතිශක්තිකරණ ප්‍රතිචාරයක් ඇතිකරන එන්නතක් ලෙස ඔක්ස්ෆර්ඩ් කොවිඩ් එන්නත හැඳින්විය හැකි බව නවතම පර්යේෂණයකින් හෙළිවී තිබේ.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that the United States would “sit on the side and help where we can” as he met in Qatar with Afghan government negotiators amid signs of progress to reach a peace agreement with the Taliban.

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In two months, he'll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සිය සංවර්ධන ප්‍රයත්නයේ දී තවදුරටත් විදේශ ණය ලබා ගැනීම වෙනුවට ආයෝජන ආකර්ශණය කර ගැනීමට ප්‍රමුඛත්වය දී ඇති බව ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටිනවා. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටියේ මෙරට චීන මහජන සමූහාණ්ඩුවේ නව තානාපති ක්වි සෙන්හොං මහතා (Qi Zhenhong) අද සිය අක්ත පත්‍ර භාරදීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී.

මෙරට ටයර් නිෂ්පාදන හා අපනයන ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයට නව මං පෙත් විවර කරමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආයෝජන මණ්ඩලය ලොව ප්‍රමුඛ ටයර් නිෂ්පාදන සමාගමක්වන චීනයේ Shandong Haohua Tyre Co. Ltd සමාගම සමඟ ටයර් නිෂ්පාදන කර්මාන්තය ආරම්භ කිරීම සඳහා 19 දින ගිවිසුම් ගත විය.

While the official poverty rate is very low, the majority of Sri Lanka’s children live in families that are struggling financially, and 36 per cent of children live in families with a per person expenditure of less than Rs. 278 a day, a new UNICEF report said.

Chinese giant Shandong Haohua to invest $ 300 m initially for a radial car and truck/bus tyre manufacturing plant for export