Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka on August 24, his cousin Udayanga Weeratunga said on Wednesday, over a month...
The much talked about Chinese research ship Yuan Wang 5 on Tuesday morning arrived and docked at Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port, according...
Salman Rushdie is still in a critical condition, but his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact, his son has...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again commended India for its independent foreign policy as he slammed the West for...
The Satanic Verses famed author Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children, was attacked by a man...
China has once again reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-governing Taiwan under its control, amid threatening Chinese military...
As China continue to hold military drills near Taiwan coast after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taipei, President Tsai...
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that Sri Lanka’s economic woes would last for another year and it will have to...
The United States has condemned the Chinese military drills in Taiwan Strait and described it as an action that is at odds...
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reaffirmed his commitment to the “one China policy” as well as to the UN Charter principles...
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