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Colombo Chief Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala yesterday (06) ordered the release of the father of the bomber who blew himself up at St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019. He had been in remand prison…
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UK: After flying its founder Richard Branson to space, Virgin Galactic is restarting ticket sales beginning at $450,000, the company announced Thursday. The new price is about double the $200,000 to $250,000 paid by around 600…
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AFGHANISTAN: The UN Security Council, currently being presided over by India, has declared that it does “not support the restoration of the Islamic Emirate" in Afghanistan as it expressed deep concern over the high levels of violence…
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UK: Former US President Donald Trump offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One after a summit in Hanoi two years ago, according to a new BBC documentary. Kim and Trump first engaged in a war of words…
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CHINA: The latest resurgence of COVID-19 in China, caused mainly by the Delta variant, is more complicated but the epidemic is generally controllable, Chinese officials said Thursday. In the latest wave, 15 provincial-level…
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UK: Most children with COVID-19 recover within a week, but a small percentage experience long-term symptoms, according to a new study of more than 1,700 British children. The researchers found that 4.4% of children had symptoms that…
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SINGAPORE: A team of researchers here has found a combination of antiviral and anti-inflammatory drugs that can be used to treat COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate disease. The team from the National University of Singapore…
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US: The US Coast Guard announced Thursday it had seized about $1.4 billion worth of cocaine and cannabis during several operations. "This is the largest illicit drug offload in Coast Guard history," said Commander Steve Poulin…
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US: India Representative to United Nations TS Trimurti, said that India wants develop peaceful and normal relations with Pakistan but in Absence of terrorism. In a UN statement, the Indian Ambassador to the UN informed that…
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SWITZERLAND: There were more than 4 million new COVID-19 cases reported globally in the last week, driven mostly by spikes in the Middle East and Asia. That''s according to the World Health Organization''s latest weekly report on…
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