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Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse has been killed in an attack on his home in the nation's capital, according to the country's interim prime minister. Claude Joseph said the president's residence in Port-au-Prince was stormed by…
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The services of the Naval Surgeon who was apprehended on Monday with regard to an alleged incident of sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl has been suspended by Navy Commander Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne, with effect from today.…
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38 deaths reported due to COVID-19 within 24-hours, stated the Department of Government Information
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The National Election Commission today issued a Gazette Extraordinary nominating former Economic Development Minister and SLPP founder Basil Rajapaksa as a Member of Parliament. The Commission in the Gazette Extraordinary…
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INDIA: Legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, who was popularly known as the tragedy king of Bollywood, passed away on Wednesday morning. The actor was 98 and is survived by his wife, veteran actor Saira Banu. The actor’s…
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CHINA: Any action that politicizes origin-tracing poisons the atmosphere of scientific research, hampers global cooperation in this regard, and undermines global efforts to fight the novel coronavirus, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson…
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INDONESIA: Indonesia said Tuesday it was importing emergency oxygen from neighbouring Singapore as hospitals crumbled under the weight of COVID-19, while the Delta variant wrought havoc around the globe. On Tuesday, the United…
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UK: Britain’s Government is facing growing criticism over how it awarded contracts for virus-related goods and services during the pandemic, its detractors alleging a “chumocracy” in which politically connected companies got priority.…
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PERU: Classified as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 17, the lambda, or C.37, variant of the coronavirus has already been detected in 29 nations — seven of them in Latin America. In Peru, where it…
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UN: The COVID-19 pandemic has rolled back years, or even decades, of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a UN report shows. The effects of the pandemic have reversed much of the progress made in reducing…
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