International Affairs

NEW YORK - The United Nations said Monday that 690 million people across the planet were undernourished last year, and an additional 83- to 132 million are at risk this year due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sri Lanka Life Saving has expanded its lifesaving services across the country. The US Embassy in Colombo has donated life saving safety equipment to Sri Lanka towards this end, Life Saving, the national body said on Friday.

තමාට අපහාස කළැයි ජාත්‍යන්තර සත්‍ය හා යුක්තිය ව්‍යාපාරයේ (ITJP) විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා යස්මින් සුකාගෙන් රුපියල් කෝටි සියයක වන්දියක් ඉල්ලා එන්තරවාසියක් යැවූ රාජ්‍ය බුද්ධි සේවාවේ ප්‍රධානී මේජර් ජෙනරාල් සුරේෂ් සලෙයි ඇගේ කීර්ති නාමයට හානි කළ බව කියමින් මානව හිමිකම් සංවිධාන හැටක් ලිපියකට අත්සන් තබා තිබේ.

The defence attaché of the American Embassy in Sri Lanka and Maldives, Lieutenant Commander Brian S.Page paid a visit to the Naval Headquarters, today (Monday).

The World Health Organization’s emergencies program chief said Friday that the new coronavirus probably could not be eliminated if current global conditions persisted.

ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානයෙන් ඉවත් වන බව අමෙරිකාව, එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයට නිල වශයෙන් දැනුම් දී තිබෙනවා.

The Free Trade Agreement signed between Sri Lanka and Singapore is still under review, the Supreme Court was informed today.

මෙවර ආසියානු කුසලාන පන්දුවාර 20 යි 20 කි‍්‍රකට් තරගාවලිය ලබන වසර දක්වා කල්දැමීමට ආසියානු කි‍්‍රකට් කවුන්සිලය තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා.

Sri Lanka and Maldives were today verified for having eliminated rubella, making them the first two countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve measles and rubella elimination ahead of the 2023 target.

යාපනය ඉයක්කච්චි හි සිදු වූ සී 4 බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සහ ඔස්ටේ‍්‍රලියාවෙන් යළි කළු කොටි බෝම්බකරුවන් මතුවිම නිසා කොටි ඩයස්පෝරා සංවිධාන 16 ක් සහ විදෙස්ගත කොටි ක‍්‍රියාකාරීන් 50 දෙනකුට යළි මෙරටට පැමිණීම තහනම් කිරීමට ආරක්‍ෂක බලධාරීන් තීරණය කර ඇත.

India said it was holding talks with Sri Lanka over its request for postponement of repayment of debt. “The matter has progressed and technical level discussions are presently underway,” spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said.

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Sri Lanka has called for greater regional and global efforts to address migrant health.

In the wake of cash crunch in local government institutions hit by Covid-19 contagion,the United Nations Development Program is now extending helping hand to these state bodies to fight tr deadly corona virus.

Australia's second-largest city has begun a second lockdown in response to a spike in new coronavirus infections.

Zoonotic diseases - which jump from animals to humans - are increasing and will continue to do so without action to protect wildlife and preserve the environment, UN experts have warned.