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World A close encounter with the Sun.Tags: Print EditionUS: A NASA spacecraft has officially 'touched' the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona. Scientists announced the news Tuesday during a…
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WorldTaliban fighters in Afghanistan.Tags: Print EditionUN: The UN has said there are “credible allegations” of more than 100 extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August, with most blamed on the…
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WorldThe making of Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral pills, Paxlovid, inside a laboratory in Freiburg, Germany. Tags: Print EditionSWITZERLAND,US,UK: The World Health Organization Tuesday warned Omicron was spreading at an unprecedented rate…
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WorldUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaking at the Geneva conference on Tuesday.Tags: Print EditionSWITZERLAND: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a…
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WorldTags: Print EditionHAITI: A petrol tanker truck exploded and killed at least 75 people in Haiti on Tuesday, after bystanders swarmed the vehicle to collect spilled fuel -- a precious commodity in a nation plagued by acute…
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WorldThe Earth’s magnetic field is generated in the very hot molten core of the planet.Tags: Print EditionUS: The ice shelf was cracking up. Surveys showed warm ocean water eroding its underbelly. Satellite imagery revealed long,…
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WorldA member of the Brooklyn Hospital Centre in New York helps a person who was just tested for COVID-19 put an object in a biohazard bag.Tags: Print EditionUS: New York’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have jumped by 70% since the U.S.…
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WorldThe devastation caused by the tornadoes in Kentucky.Tags: Print EditionUS: The barrage of tornadoes that tore through Kentucky and surrounding states killed a dozen children, including a 2-month-old infant, governor Andy Beshear…
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Law & OrderShavini MadharaTags: Print EditionUnderworld figure Janith Madushanka Silva alias ‘Podi Lassi’, who was under the Criminal Investigations Department on a Detention Order, was remanded till December 21 by Colombo Chief…
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Law & OrderDilshan TharakaTags: Print EditionThe Attorney General yesterday informed the Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar that former National Intelligence Chief Sisira Mendis, the third prosecution witness in the case, will not be…
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