January 2021

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka will use the National Election Commission electoral registry to select people for vaccination, but if people actually want to go ahead with it, vaccination is voluntary. Lalith Weeratunga Chief Advisor to President…
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By Lisa Friedman and Christopher Flavelle WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday (27) signed a package of executive orders elevating climate change at every level of the federal government, a move that the administration said will…
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COLOMBO – Half million (500,000) doses of COVISHIELD vaccine, gifted by the Government of India under its  #VaccineMaitri project will arrive in Sri Lanka on Thursday (28), via a  special Air India flight. The consignment, packed in…
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GENEVA -New COVID-19 variants that make the virus more contagious and could render vaccine and antibody protection less effective have spread rapidly across dozens of countries, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday (27). In…
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By Christophe Vogt and Amal Jayasinghe GENEVA/COLOMBO - The UN human rights chief has called for an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist conflict and sanctions on military officials accused of…
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By Benjamin Mueller and Matina Stevis Gridneff LONDON — The vaccine wars have come to Europe. For months now, wealthy countries have been clearing the world’s shelves of coronavirus vaccines, leaving poorer nations with little hope of…
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The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Soviet city of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front in World War II. The siege began on…
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Emma Goldman (June 1869 – May 1940) was an anarchist political activist, writer and renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy…
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RIYADH - At least one loud explosion rattled Riyadh on Tuesday (26), AFP correspondents reported, three days after the kingdom intercepted a projectile over the Saudi capital. Authorities in Saudi Arabia, which has come under repeated…
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By Elisabetta Povoledo ROME — Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy resigned Tuesday (26) after weeks of political infighting, thrusting the country into renewed instability as the coronavirus pandemic ravages lives and livelihoods.…
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