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US: US President Joe Biden opened a COVID-19 summit of world leaders Wednesday with a promise to donate a “historic” extra 500 million vaccines to countries struggling to push back against the pandemic. “This is an…
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US: Unvaccinated Heads of State attending the UN General Assembly this week have to settle for a piece of pizza on a sidewalk instead of fine dining at New York’s restaurants. That is how Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro dined…
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AFGHANISTAN: One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of…
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SWITZERLAND:Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has gained wide support for a second term as head of the World Health Organisation, formally nominated by at least 17 European Union members and backed by countries in other regions, diplomats…
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A Buddhist monk chants as local residents offer prayer during a ceremony to celebrate Pchum Ben or Ancestors’ Day at Kob Srov Pagoda on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians began the celebration of the traditional 15-day…
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Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday said that the Government has no right to sell the Kerawalapitiya Yugadanavi Power Station to an American based company in a secret manner. The related agreement has been signed by the…
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and First Lady Ioma Rajapaksa place floral tributes at the 9/11 Memorial in New York during a 20th anniversary commemoration ceremony organised by the UN yesterday.  (UN Photo)
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Keeping the crops safe from monkeys is an exhausting task for farmers in some rural villages in Matale. They have to come up with new ways to keep the monkeys away from their crops. The farmers decided to take the matter into…
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US Ambassador in Sri Lanka Alaina B Teplitz has tweeted that she enjoyed listening to the violin cover of the hit Sri Lankan song Manike Mage Hithe by Yohani and Satheeshan. The Ambassador said the violin version played by…
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Two men aged 60 and 44 were killed and another injured when two trap guns intended to kill wild animals were accidentally triggered in the Thirappane area.The incident had taken place close to the Muriyakalla tank in the Thirappane…
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