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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has announced his resignation for health reasons.

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Acting British High Commissioner Lisa Whanstall discussed a range of areas on which Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom could collaborate on when she met Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning, the Prime Minister’s Office said.

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NEW YORK - The president of the U.N. Security Council said Tuesday there is no consensus for restoring international sanctions on Iran in the 15-member council and that he would take no further action on a U.S. demand to re-impose them. 

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ඉන්දියාවේ නව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස්වරයා ලෙස මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ මහතා පත්වීමට නියමිත බව වාර්තා වේ. මේ වනවිට ඔහුගේ නම පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ උසස් තනතුරු කමිටුව වෙතද යවා අවසන් බවයි වාර්තා වන්නේ.

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The Australian government is planning to introduce legislation which would enable it to veto agreements made by local governments and public organisations with foreign governments.
The foreign relations bill would require any deals with foreign countries to get final approval from the foreign affairs minister.

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The Republican Party’s foreign policy agenda has been almost entirely shaped in the past four years by President Donald Trump’s approach to international relations, including new trade deals, skepticism of international organizations, and calls to reduce U.S. troop deployments overseas.

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Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka Trine Jøranli Eskedal yesterday called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday he is hopeful the recent agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to normalize relations will help advance Middle East peace, amid what Washington says is Iran’s "malign influence.”

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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable people across the country have faced multiple challenges, including the loss of income. This has led to a cascading socio-economic impact on communities at the grassroots level in Sri Lanka, upending their daily lives.

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High Commissioner of India Gopal Baglay yesterday called on Speaker of the Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena and congratulated the Speaker on assuming the high office and on the safe and successful conduct of the general elections.

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යාපනය පලාලි ගුවන්තොටුපල සංවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ඉන්දීය රජය සමඟ අත්සන් කිරීමට අපේක්ෂා කරන කෙටුම්පත් කරන ලද අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම ඉදිරි සති දෙක තුළ කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් කරන බව සංචාරක ඇමති ප්‍රසන්න රණතුංග පවසයි.

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China’s Acting Ambassador Hu Wei yesterday called on State Minister of Finance, Capital Markets and Public Enterprise Reforms Nivard Cabraal. The Chinese Embassy in a tweet said Chargé d’affaires Hu Wei had a broad and fruitful discussion on finance and investment with Cabraal and added China will continuously support Sri Lanka on its economic revival.

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Security was stepped up the last time Frans Hals's painting Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer was stolen from a small museum in the Dutch town of Leerdam.

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13 වැනි සංශෝධනය ඇතුළත් පළාත් සභා ක‍්‍රමය ඉදිරියට ගෙන යා යුතු බව මෙරට ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස් ගෝපාල් මැග්ලේ කළ ප‍්‍රකාශය පළාත් පාලන රාජ්‍ය ඇමැති සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා ඊයේ 25 වැනිදා ප‍්‍රතික්‍ෂේප කළේය.

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Hong Kong scientists are reporting the case of a healthy man in his 30s who became reinfected with coronavirus four and a half months after his first bout.

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Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are currently working on the possibility of establishing direct air links between both countries.

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නව්‍ය කොරෝනා ව්‍යාප්තිය හේතුවෙන් දකුණු කොරියාවේ අගනුවර වන සෝල් නුවර සියළු පාසල් සහ පෙරපාසල් තාවකාලිකව වසා දැමීමට එරට බලධාරීන් පියවර ගෙන තිබෙනවා. ඒ, ගත වූ සති 02 ක කාලය තුළ සෝල් නුවර අවට පාසල්වල සිසුන් සහ ගුරුවරුන් 200 කට අධික පිරිසක් කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින් බවට හදුනා ගැනීමත් සමගයි. ලබන සැපැත්ම්බර් මස 11 වනදා තෙක් පාසල් සිසුන්ට ඔන්ලයින් ක‍්‍රමවේදය මගින් පන්ති පැවැත්වීමට තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා.

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WHITE HOUSE - Calling it “a truly historic announcement,” U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday hailed a federal government emergency authorization for use of convalescent blood plasma that he declared would “save countless lives” of coronavirus patients.