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Colombo: Sri Lanka has given the nod to begin a freight transportation service between its northern port of Kankesanthurai and Tamil Nadu, which is separated from the island nation by a strip of sea, a Minister said in...

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will announce an extension of the increased US military presence in Poland while in Madrid for a NATO leaders summit, NBC News reported, citing a European and several US officials.Biden is set...

Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities have announced the shutting down of schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains, and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to...

Brussels:  NATO countries at the summit in Madrid will discuss the strengthening of military contingents in Eastern Europe, as the region’s member states would like to double the number of military personnel, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Monday,...

Kyiv: Ukraine terminates two agreements with Russia in the field of nuclear safety, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine said on Monday."The state regulatory inspectorate terminates a number of agreements with Russia in the field of nuclear security,"...

Madrid: Thousands of demonstrators rallied to call for peace and protest against a NATO summit to be held here this week.Social, antimilitarist and pacifist movements from around the world gathered to show support for a congress concluded here on...

Berlin: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she does not support the idea of boycotting the G20 summit if Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part.Von der Leyen told the German ZDF broadcaster at the G7 summit...

Colombo: The women's wing of Sri Lanka's largest leftist party has called upon the people to quit standing in serpentine queues daily for food and fuel and help overthrow the government which it said was incapable of resolving the...

Washington/New Delhi: Even as the Biden administration is planning to “make sure that the costs keep rising” for Moscow including through a ban on gold imports from Russia, there would be “a lot to discuss on the agenda with...

London: The UK has plans to support Ukraine with an additional package of $525 million in guarantees for World Bank lending, the PM office said.According to an official statement, PM Boris Johnson will be telling world leaders this week...