International Affairs

New Delhi: In a stunning revelation, a Chinese virologist has claimed that the coronavirus was created in a government-controlled laboratory in Wuhan, the original epicentre of the outbreak.

There are almost 29 million COVID-19 infections worldwide.

The World Bank said yesterday it has reallocated $ 56 million from ongoing projects in Sri Lanka to protect the most vulnerable in the agriculture sector, improve COVID-19 protection measures on public transport, facilitate tele-education for schoolchildren, and provide digital solutions to improve delivery of public services.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉතාලි තානාපතිනි රීටා ජුලියානා මැනෙල්ලා මහත්මිය අද 2020.09.14 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා හමුවූවාය.

ISLAMABAD - Warring sides in Afghanistan have accused each other of staging fresh battlefield attacks as their representatives held a second day of historic, U.S.-brokered peace talks Sunday away from home in Qatar.

The Sri Lanka Medical Council's (SLMC) decision to remove three prominent Russian State Universities from the SLMC Approved List without prior information, has caused much concernin Russia, the Cultural Section of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Sri Lanka said.

The United Nations (UN) has recalled it encouraged the warring parties in Sri Lanka to reach a peaceful solution.

ISLAMABAD - The United States pressed Afghanistan’s warring factions Saturday to approach their first-ever direct peace talks with an intent to strike a power-sharing deal that would accommodate “competing views” and permanently end decades of bloodshed in the country.

Sri Lanka has come under criticism on transitional justice, in a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Acting Chinese Ambassador Hu Wei said Sri Lanka and China should not limit its bilateral relations only to economic cooperation.

United States and Sri Lanka are addressing defence related issues jointly further strengthening the existing friendly relation in is field.

Sri Lanka’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been swift, decisive and coordinated using whole-of-society approach under the strong leadership of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa with technical guidance from the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO), a monthly selection of case studies released by the WHO said.

ගෙවුණු පැය 24 තුළ ඉන්දියාවෙන් නව්‍ය කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින් 94,409 දෙනෙකු වාර්තා වී තිබෙනවා.

පැය 24ක් ඇතුළත වාර්තා වූ වැඩිම කොරෝනාවෛරස් ආසාදිතයන්ගේ ගණන ප්‍රංශයෙන් නිවේදනය කෙරිණි.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thursday called for $35 billion in additional funding for the World Health Organization's Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator program, designed to develop and equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines and treatments worldwide.

Sri Lanka has called for collective efforts by the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Regional Forum (ARF) member states to address traditional and non-traditional security threats.

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව සම්බාධක පනවන ලෙස කැනඩා මන්ත‍්‍රී ගානට් ජීසස් කැනඩා අගමැති ජස්ටින් ටෘඩෝගෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇත.

Shipping a coronavirus vaccine around the world will be the "largest transport challenge ever" according to the airline industry.