International Affairs

A bipartisan investigation into Russian efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election found that Moscow successfully used a complex web of operatives and active measures to ensnare members of President Donald Trump’s campaign, in some cases, leaving the incoming administration open to manipulation.

පසුගිය 15 වැනිදා ඩේලි නිවුස් ඉලෙක්ට්‍රෝනික පුවත් පතට ප්‍රකාශයක් නිකුත් කරමින් නව විදේශ ලේකම් අද්මිරල් ජයනාත් කොළඹගේ මහතා ප්‍රකාශකොට ඇත්තේ නව ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්‍රතිපත්තිය ” ඉන්දියාව පළමුව ” යන්න බවය.

චීනයේ නගර දෙකක් වෙත ආනයනය කරන ලද ශිතකළ ආහාර ද්‍රව්‍ය මත තිබී නව කොරෝනා වෛරසය හමුවූ බව එරට බලධාරින් සඳහන් කර සිටිනවා.

විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයේ කි‍්‍රයාත්මක වන බටහිර රටවල්වල න්‍යාය පත‍්‍රය ගැන විමර්ශනය කිරීමට රජය තීරණය කර ඇත.

The prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has postponed the country's general election by a month amid a spike in coronavirus cases.

Pakistan says it wants to strengthen ties with Sri Lanka through close cooperation in diverse areas.

Commits to further bilateral cooperation on number of areas

Thousands of protesters called for radical changes to the Thai government Sunday — the latest in near daily protests lead by students against the government.

Chinese nationals are no longer required to know English to apply for Sri Lankan tourist visas as a result of a newly signed agreement between the Sri Lankan Immigration Department and China travel specialist Travelzen International Travel Service (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

WHITE HOUSE - On the day the Democratic Party began its virtual convention, the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, brought his campaign to the heart of the upper Midwest.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today as India celebrated 74 years of independence.

WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities have seized millions of dollars and hundreds of virtual currency accounts used to funnel money to al-Qaida, Islamic State (IS) and Hamas’s military wing, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Almost all current cases of Covid-19 in Victoria, Australia, can be linked to returned travellers quarantined in the state, an inquiry has heard.

WASHINGTON - The struggle to make a future for thousands of captured Islamic State fighters and their families currently in makeshift prisons and overcrowded displaced persons camps across northeastern Syria may be starting to erode key partnerships in the fight against the terror group.

WILMINGTON, DEL. - Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden is calling for a national mask mandate to cut the number of future deaths from the coronavirus in the United States.  

Sri Lankans overseas have been urged to join hands with the Government in its endeavours.

අමෙරිකානු ඩිමොක‍්‍රටික් පක්ෂ අපේක්ෂක ජෝ බයිඩන් විසින් සිය උප ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂිකාව ලෙස කමලා හැරිස් නම් කර තිබෙනවා.

China’s civil aviation regulator has announced that an Etihad Airways’ Abu Dhabi-Shanghai flight, a China Eastern Airlines’ Manila-Shanghai flight, and a SriLankan Airlines’ Colombo-Shanghai flight, would be suspended after several passengers tested positive for COVID-19 on recent flights, the Xinhua news agency reported.