Sri Lanka’s new Chinese Ambassador, Wei Huaxiang, met VIII Executive President Ranil Wickremesinghe at his political office on Flower Road in Colombo, in an engagement between China’s new diplomatic representative and the
Sri Lanka and India took another step toward strengthening their long-standing military partnership this week with an official visit by General Upendra Dwivedi, Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army,
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Questions over alleged corruption in Sri Lanka’s energy sector intensified in Parliament on Tuesday as opposition lawmakers accused the government of irregularities in the awarding of a major coal supply tender for
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Britain’s embassy in Caracas refused repeated pleas for help from Venezuela’s ousted president Hugo Chávez during the April 2002 coup that briefly removed him from power, according to newly released documents from
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The Trump administration has been sending some unaccompanied migrant teens to a secure juvenile detention center in southeast Pennsylvania that has a long-documented history of abuse, according to a Washington Post investigation.
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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya admitted to senior Buddhist leaders that a serious error occurred in the country’s new Grade 6 English module, which included a reference to a questionable website.
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Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are reportedly negotiating the conversion of approximately $2 billion in Saudi loans into a potential deal for JF-17 fighter jets, according to two Pakistani sources cited by Reuters.
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Sri Lanka’s government has confirmed that 418 people detained in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks have been released without charge, as lawmakers renewed scrutiny of the long-running investigations nearly
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Six people have died and several others are hospitalized following a mass poisoning incident in the Waikkal area of Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka, authorities confirmed. The tragedy, which came to light on January
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Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala confirmed in the Sri Lankan Parliament today that investigations have revealed Sarah Jasmine is not dead, though authorities have not been able to verify whether she is
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India’s Chief of the Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi, arrived in Sri Lanka this week on a two-day official visit, highlighting New Delhi’s growing defence engagement in the Indian Ocean region at
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Sri Lanka is bracing for adverse weather as a low-pressure system in the Bay of Bengal, currently located about 700 kilometers southeast of Batticaloa, is expected to approach the country’s eastern coast
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Local authorities in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana have acknowledged a serious breakdown in safety oversight after a fire at a bar-nightclub killed 40 people and injured 116, revealing that no
More U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Republican lawmakers that failure to retain control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections could lead to his impeachment by Democrats, framing the vote as a
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More than 2 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remain under review, Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday, offering the most detailed estimate yet of the
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The U.S. State Department has expanded its visa bond pilot program, requiring travelers from seven additional countries to pay up to $15,000 in reimbursable deposits when applying for visitor visas. Effective January
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