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DHAKA - Tens of thousands of people scrambled to get the last trains, buses and ferries out of Dhaka on Tuesday (13) before a nationwide transport shutdown to halt the spread of coronavirus took hold. With new cases and deaths hitting…
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By Noah Weiland, Sharon Lafraniere and Carl Zimmer WASHINGTON — Injections of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine came to a sudden halt in much of the country on Tuesday (13) after federal health agencies called for a…
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By Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes and Thomas Gibbons Neff WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 20 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the…
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PARIS - Ratings agency S&P said there were a record seven defaults on sovereign debt repayments in 2020, the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, although the vast majority of countries' creditworthiness didn't lose out.…
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COLOMBO – German Ambassador Holger Seubert has warned Sri Lanka against wishing for a ‘Hitler’ after a minister expressed a wish for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to act more like Hitler, on top of a similar call by a Buddhist monk earlier.…
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By Farzana Haniffa On March 13, Sarath Weerasekara, Sri Lanka’s minister of public security, announced the government will ban wearing of the burqa and close more than 1,000 Islamic schools in the country. The minister was quoted as saying…
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By Steven Erlanger, Melissa Eddy and Helene Cooper BRUSSELS — The United States and NATO, anxious about a major Russian troop build-up on Ukraine’s border, signalled strong support for the Kyiv government Tuesday (13). And in what was…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO – Chinese Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe visit to Sri Lanka later this month may be described as a “routine ministerial visit”. But seen in light of the developing situation in Sri Lanka and the South…
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By Nicholas Bogel Burroughs and Azi Paybarah BROOKLYN CENTRE, Minn — A 20-year-old Black man died after a police officer shot him during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday (11), sending hundreds of people into the streets…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka secured a $500 million loan from China Monday (12) in a desperate bid to shore up its foreign exchange reserves as the local currency hit a record low. The Sri Lankan embassy in Beijing said the loan agreement with…
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