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Editor's Note: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to many aspects of social development and people's lives. In a series of reports titled "Fighting the Pandemic: 2020 in Review", we look at achievements made in different fields. This is the fourth part of the series.

Sunday, 03 January 2021 - 12:16 Since the evacuation of 33 students from Wuhan City, in February 2019, the Ministry has been carrying out the task of repatriation for almost a year now and to date 60,470 Sri Lankans, composed of pilgrims, students, Officials of Government or Armed Forces, migrant workers, short term visitors, sea farers and cases on compassionate grounds have been repatriated from 137 countries by the Ministry through the Sri Lanka Missions overseas. Despite the worsening glob...

Sunday, 03 January 2021 - 16:08 A man (stowaway) who clung to the undercarriage of a jumbo jet and survived an 11-hour, 5,639-mile flight from South Africa to London has spoken for the first time of his terrifying journey. He recalled how he emerged from a coma months later to learn his best friend had fallen 5,000ft from the aircraft to his death. Themba Cabeka, whose identity is revealed for the first time, was unconscious in hospital for six months after being discovered on the ground at Hea...

Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The Indian badminton team and support staff left for Thailand on Sunday to compete in two back-to-back BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournaments and the BWF World Tour Finals. The team includes Olympic hopefuls Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth while world champion P.V. Sindhu will be travelling from England where she has been training since October. To get full access of the story, click here to subscribe to IANS News Service © 2...

Saturday, 02 January 2021 - 9:03 The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) says that it has facilitated online filing of complaints from foreign workers. Accordingly, the complaint of the migrant worker can be directed to the website of the Foreign Service Bureau www.slbfe.lk  by the migrant worker or a relative. The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) announced that the service can be obtained by entering the passport number, name, telephone number and complaint of the mi...

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Opinion January 1, 2021 The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan. Writing about Pakistan’s foreign policy is not easy. It is a function of Pakistan’s national policy which is determined by domestic realities and power structures that have, by and large, proven inimical to the interests of its people. What needs to be done to break free of these vice-like limits on Pakistan’s potential is generally known. Despite unwarranted co...

ICE arrests 21 across the US during Operation No Safe Haven Plus 12/30/2020 ICE arrests 21 across the US during Operation No Safe Haven Plus WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 18 foreign nationals sought for their roles in known or suspected human rights violations or human smuggling and trafficking during a nationwide operation which concluded on Dec. 17. The ICE National Fugitive Operations Program, in coordination with the ICE Human Rights Violators a...

Cuban foreign minister denounces new US aggression Cuban foreign minister denounces new US aggression 30 de diciembre de 2020, 15:19Havana, Dec 30 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday denounced US Secretary of State Mike Pompeos pretentions to include Cuba in the list of nations that sponsor terrorism. On his Twitter account, the minister noted that with that action, Pompeo seeks to please the extreme right wing in Miami, from where terrorist groups act with impunity...

Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive Moscow, Dec 31 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law, broadening the range of individuals and organisations that can be labelled as foreign agents and allowing stricter monitoring. To get full access of the story, click here to subscribe to IANS News Service © 2021 IANS India Private Limited. All Rights Reserved. The reproduction of the story/photograph in any form will be liable for legal action. For news, views and gossips, follow IANS at...