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US: Former US President George W. Bush on Wednesday criticised the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan and said civilians were being left to be “slaughtered” by the Taliban. “Afghan women and girls are going to suffer…
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RUSSIA: The Kremlin said Thursday that Moscow had no immediate plans to allow foreign coronavirus vaccines into Russia, despite the country’s sluggish vaccination rates and rising death count in a third wave of the pandemic.…
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AUSTRALIA: Melbourne’s streets returned to the eerie quiet of lockdown for the fifth time Friday, as Australia battled to contain an outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in its two largest cities. More than 12 million…
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GERMANY: At least 60 people have died and as many as 1,300 remain unaccounted as a result of freak flooding in western Germany and Belgium where some areas saw the highest rainfall in more than 100 years. Two firefighters sent to…
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Recently, a group of state experts of South Korea has compiled and submitted to the Government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) a draft plan for electricity generation in the country for the period up to 2050. The document provides for a…
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UNP Chairman Vajira Abeywardena yesterday said that the country will have a formidable UNP Government by end of 2023 under the leadership of former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. He said that preliminary arrangements are…
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Sixteen Trade Union activists including Ceylon Teachers Union Secretary Joseph Stalin who were placed under quarantine at a Quarantine Centre in Mullaitivu have been released. They were to be taken to Colombo in buses yesterday…
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A majority of the Sri Lankan Muslims has urged the Wakfs Board to reconsider the ban on the slaughter of Qurbani animals inside the mosques in Sri Lanka during the forthcoming Haj festival. Early this week, the Wakfs Board of Sri…
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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina B Teplitz had a lengthy and fruitful discussion on the Sri Lankan Government’s commitment to the international community to resolve the Tamil issue and the…
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