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COLOMBO: The remains of Priyantha Kumara, the businessman killed in Silkiot, Pakistan, in recent days, arrived in Sri Lanka on a Sri Lankan Airlines flight from Lahore. Waiting for him at Bandaranaike International Airport were his wife Nilushi and other...
HAGUE: The European Union drug regulator gave its backing Tuesday to mixing different types of vaccines in initial vaccination and booster campaigns to battle the coronavirus. The European Medicines Agency said in a statement that using different types...
Canberra: Australia will not send officials to the upcoming winter Olympics in Beijing, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Wednesday, joining a US diplomatic boycott of the event. Canberra's decision comes amid 'disagreement' with China over a number...
NEW DELHI: US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter will visit Qatar, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on December 7-17, the State Department said. "In Qatar and UAE, in addition to meeting with embassy staff, she will...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday the West would impose "strong economic and other measures" on Russia if it invades Ukraine, while Putin demanded guarantees Nato would not expand further eastward. The...
MOSCOW: Two people were killed and three were injured in a shooting that took place in a public service office in Moscow’s southeast Tuesday, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced on his VK page. "A tragedy happened in the Ryazansky public service office....
Suspected Khashoggi murder squad member arrested at Paris airport PARIS: A suspected member of the team that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Khalid Alotaibi, was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris on Tuesday, according...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will warn Russian President Vladimir Putin of severe economic consequences should Russia go ahead with a threatened invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. CIA Director William Burnsofficial said on Monday. ‘We don’t know...
DOHA: The Houthi movement rebels governing northern Yemen have launched a massive missile and drone attack on military and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sare'e said on Tuesday. "In response to the crimes of the US-Saudi...
Basra: Four people were killed and four others injured on Tuesday in a motorcycle explosion in Iraq's southern city of Basra, the Iraqi military said. The blast took place before noon when a booby-trapped motorcycle detonated at the al-Somoud intersection...
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Tuesday expressed its disappointment over recent developments in Myanmar wherein ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced four-year jail term over charges of inciting dissent. Her sentence was later...
WASHINGTON: After the Biden administration announced the diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, former US diplomat on Monday (local time) informed that the athletes will still be able to take part in the games. The remarks came from...