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Sri Lanka’s new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed all state institutions to display the national emblem in place of the traditional portrait of the incumbent President. Among…

Polling for Presidential elections in Sri Lanka has concluded with around 80 per cent voting reported from all over the country. The voting remained largely peaceful with stray…

Israel has begun another round of airstrikes on targets linked to Islamic Jihad in Gaza despite a ceasefire that came into effect yesterday. In a WhatsApp message to reporters, the…

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all parties in Syria to exercise maximum restraint, amid Turkey's preparations to start a military operation in the north of the…

Bangladesh, Myanmar and China have agreed to form a tripartite joint working mechanism to oversee the repatriation process of Rohingyas to Myanmar. Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Dr A K…

In Sri Lanka, lawyers in the Tamil-majority northern province are on a strike today, demanding the arrest of a Buddhist clergy and other persons who had gone against a court order and…

US says it will make its case against Iran at the United Nations this week and insisted that Washington wants to give diplomacy every opportunity to succeed in the wake of an attack on a…

The United States has announced that it was sending military reinforcements to the Gulf region following attacks on Saudi oil facilities that it attributes to Iran.Earlier, President Donald…

The US wants a peaceful solution to the crisis sparked by attacks on Saudi oil facilities, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said, after Iran raised the prospect of all-out war. Pompeo…

European Union (EU) parliamentarians Ryszard Czarnecki and Fulvio Martusciello have backed India on the Kashmir issue and slammed Pakistan for harbouring terrorists. During a special…