International Affairs

MUMBAI (Reuters): India’s coronavirus case tally topped 7 million after it reported 74,383 new infections in the last 24 hours, data from the Health Ministry showed yesterday, even as the spread moderated in Western states such as Maharashtra.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has noted its role in Sri Lanka after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon offered no additional details on Afghanistan Thursday, a day after President Donald Trump tweeted that all U.S. forces in the South Asian nation should return home before the end of the year.

WASHINGTON - More than a week after testing positive for the coronavirus, U.S. President Donald Trump described himself Sunday as being “in very good shape” and said he was no longer taking any medication.

ස්විස්ටර්ලන්තයේ හිරු මාකවිටගේ මෙවර ජිනීවා සැසියේ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාශාවෙන් කතා දෙකක් ද, සැසිවාරය සදහා කරන ලද අවසන් කතාව ප්‍රංශ භාශාවෙන් ද දේශප්‍රේමී ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් වෙනුවෙන් සිදු කරනු ලැබීය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පදනම් කර ගනිමින් චීනය සහ අමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය අතර මත ගැටුමක් උද්ගතව තිබේ. මීට හේතුවී ඇත්තේ කොළඹ එක්සත් ජනපද තානාපතිනි ඇලයිනා ටෙප්ලිට්ස් දේශීය පුවත්පතකට ලබාදුන් සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවකදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ව්‍යාපෘති චීනයට පමණක් ලබාදෙන බව පවසමින් කර තිබූ ප්‍රකාශයකි.

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Sunday there are more than 37.2 million global COVID-19 cases and more than a million deaths.

The world has set a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases confirmed across the globe with more than 350,000, according to the World Health Organization.

Sri Lanka Ambassador to Luxembourg Grace Asirwatham during her visit to Luxembourg met with Secretary General of Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) Maurice Bauer.

ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය ලේකම් මයික් පොම්පියෝ සහ ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් මාර්ක් එස්පර් යන ඇමරිකාවේ ඉහළම රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනා තව සති දෙකකින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සැපත්වන බවට විදේශ ලේකම් ජයනාත් කොළඹගේ මහතා විසින් එළිදරව් කොට ඇත.

A Trump administration official leading the response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.S. can expect delivery of a vaccine starting in January 2021, despite statements from the president that inoculations could begin this month.

A high-powered Chinese delegation led by the former Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will arrive in Sri Lanka today and will only meet with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa due to COVID-19 infection concerns, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement yesterday.

The Sri Lankan Government submitted a written demand for compensation of Rs. 1.69 billion from the UK Government for the 263 containers filled with waste that were imported to Sri Lanka in 2017, The Sunday Morning learnt.

A Delhi police volunteer holds a mobile phone for a health worker as she takes an urgent call during testing for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Saturday, 2020.
The world now has more than 36 million cases of the coronavirus.   

Cabinet this week approved utilising a $ 400 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to make key reforms to Sri Lanka’s education system including developing secondary schools, increase the numbers of teachers and raising the number of national schools to 1000.

Following the controversial removal of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) from the Colombo Light Rail Transit Project (LRT), the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has now removed Asian Development Bank (ADB) from the Kelani Valley Railway Improvement Programme, The Sunday Morning learnt.

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Philippines Shobini Gunasekera paid a courtesy call on President of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Ambassador Benedicto V. Yujuico on 1 October in order to allow Filipino investors to invest in Sri Lanka’s tea, gemstones, jewellery, food processing and agriculture.

OAKLAND, CALIF. - Facebook said it will ban groups that "represent" QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that paints President Donald Trump as a secret warrior against a supposed child-trafficking ring run by celebrities and "deep state" government officials.