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Lack of jet fuel in Colombo forces SriLankan, other airlines to refuel in other airports
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- Sri Lanka faces risk of international airlines pullout after fuel notice (Category: Breaking News)
Regional plantation companies and smallholders are harvesting green leaf and arranging deliveries
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USAID Administrator Samantha Power has assured Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe USAID support. USAID Spokesperson Rebecca Chalif said that Power held a call with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to discuss how USAID is responding to the country’s political and economic crises. Administrator Power expressed her sympathy for those Sri Lankans who were killed or injured in the […]
- Samantha Power to visit Sri Lanka to discuss crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Samantha Power notes unrest forced GR to flee Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Samantha Power announces $40 million in development assistance to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Power to raise human rights issue during Sri Lanka visit (Category: Breaking News)
Moscow [Russia], May 20 (ANI): The Russia-Ukraine war has reaped massive economic benefits for China and the country has even “profited from Russia’s misfortune”. Chinese officials view the sanctions given by the Foreign Ministers of G-7 countries against Russia as economic opportunities. According to US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Chinese technology exports to Russia have […]
- China might arm up Russia’s war to reshape global politics: Report (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia’s Putin to visit China in first foreign trip since re-election (Category: Breaking News)
- Will China Promise Russia Arms After Biden’s Ukraine Visit? (Category: Breaking News)
- China and Belarus express ‘extreme interest’ in Ukraine peace (Category: Breaking News)
Beijing [China], May 20 (ANI): Chinese hackers, reportedly sent emails with malware links to scientists and engineers at several of Russia’s military research and development institutes on March 23 in order to purportedly obtain critical data on the country’s security systems. The emails, which were supposedly sent by Russia’s Ministry of Health and contained seemingly […]
- China probes 'gutter oil' claims (Category: Technology)
By Nick Beake Billions of dollars of Chinese money are boosting some European economies – but some of the deals being struck have a catch. Critics say they are “debt traps”, where China gets to choose what happens if loans aren’t repaid. China insists it is a reliable investment partner – but it is also […]
- China urges EU to reach debt deal without delay (Category: Business)
- Beijing envoy warns Dutch of retaliation for chip curbs: ‘China won’t just swallow this’ (Category: Breaking News)
- China to keep investing in euro zone debt – China c.bank gov. (Category: Business)
- China signs forced labour treaties as Xinjiang scrutiny grows (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post War On China? – II: US Military-Industrial Complex & The War Without End appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- War On China? – IV: Rules-Based International Order: Normalising Global State Terrorism (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – V: A “Carnival” Of Quads (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – III: Pivot To East (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – VI: India & The US: Forward Policy & The Brzezinskian Project (Category: Breaking News)
By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana The Asia-Pacific region is at a crossroads today – to further breakdown or breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future. Since the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was established in 1947, the region has made extraordinary progress, emerging as a pacesetter of global economic growth that has […]
- Persons with disabilities integral players in determining innovative solutions to fully inclusiv... (Category: Breaking News)
- The right policies can protect the workers of Asia and the Pacific (Category: Breaking News)
- EGUARDIAN and UiPath: Giving customers a competitive edge through world-class enterprise automat... (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreign Minister Peiris to visit Singapore for bilateral talks (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Hold Elections & Avert A Dual-Power Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW Vs. GR: Who Will Outwit Whom? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A SWOT Appraisal (Category: Breaking News)
- We Are On Course To A Dual Currency Regimen (Category: Breaking News)
- Oh Frabjous Day! Calloo Callay! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Could A ‘National Government’ Resolve The Crisis? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Crisis Deepens Without Rescue Plan (Category: Breaking News)
- Recent Political Violence And Its Consequences (Category: Breaking News)
- Current Political Scenario: Smoke & Mirrors (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Causes Of Economic Crisis In Sri Lanka & Lessons For A New Age appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Inflation – Public Enemy Number One (Category: Breaking News)
- Navigating The Economic Reawakening & Sustainable Growth (Category: Breaking News)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- The Contribution Of The Monetary Policy For Overcoming The Current Economic Crisis Faced In Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it is in talks with stakeholders to support a timely resolution of the crisis in Sri Lanka. IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said that the IMF remains committed to help Sri Lanka in line with the IMF policies. “There’s currently a virtual IMF staff mission engaged in those technical talks […]
- IMF seeks stability to resume talks with Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF wants Sri Lanka to restore debt sustainability (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF wants Sri Lanka to reach deal with creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- Court dismisses petition challenging changes to SLFP constitution (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post War On China? – I: Justifications For War: Thucydides “Trap”, Clash Of Civilisations, Domino Theory appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- War On China? – II: US Military-Industrial Complex & The War Without End (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – III: Pivot To East (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – VI: India & The US: Forward Policy & The Brzezinskian Project (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – V: A “Carnival” Of Quads (Category: Breaking News)
The WTA has followed the ATP’s lead in deciding ranking points will be awarded for next month’s UK grass-court events. But Wimbledon could still be stripped of points in response to the All England Club and the LTA’s ban on Russian and Belarusian players following the invasion of Ukraine. The decision is said to be […]
- Nordic nations join calls for ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes to be upheld (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia players criticise rights record of World Cup hosts Qatar (Category: Breaking News)
- Wimbledon to let female players wear dark-coloured undershorts (Category: Breaking News)
- Paris Mayor wants Russia banned from 2024 Olympics (Category: Breaking News)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause global food shortages in the coming months, the UN has warned. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war had worsened food insecurity in poorer nations due to rising prices. The world could face famines that last for years if Ukrainian exports are not restored to pre-war levels, he added. The […]
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
- EU awards Ukraine and Moldova candidate status (Category: Breaking News)
- Somalia’s new president elected by 327 people (Category: Breaking News)
TAIPEI — The world’s leading shippers all stopped deliveries to and from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine — with one crucial exception. That, according to the London-based data analytics company GlobalData, was the industry’s fourth-biggest player, China COSCO Shipping Corporation Ltd. – (NikkeiAsia)
Ukraine has confirmed that hundreds of its fighters trapped for more than two months in Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks have been evacuated. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said 53 badly wounded soldiers were taken to the town of Novoazovsk, held by Russian-backed rebels. She said another 211 were evacuated using a humanitarian corridor to Olenivka – […]
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- EU awards Ukraine and Moldova candidate status (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky orders civilians to evacuate Donetsk region (Category: Breaking News)
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson announced on Monday that Sweden will join Finland in seeking NATO membership in the wake of Russia s invasion of Ukraine.
[…]The post Masks Of Democracy & Energy Geopolitics: Is Full Spectrum Dominance The Endgame? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Staged Default & Sovereign Bond Debt Trap? IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War (Category: Breaking News)
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF, Sri Lanka’s Resource Curse & Privatization Of The Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota Back In The USA & A Chilling Killing: Welcome To 2023 A (Virtual) Realty In A Post-Truth Wo... (Category: Breaking News)
Somalia’s former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been elected president after a final vote that was only open to the country’s MPs. He defeated the current president, Mohamed Abudallahi Farmajo, who has been in office since 2017. The ballot was limited to Somalia’s 328 MPs due to security concerns over holding a wider election, and […]
- Somali forces claim end to deadly 30-hour hotel siege (Category: Breaking News)
- Man arrested after 4 July mass shooting in US (Category: Breaking News)
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- EU awards Ukraine and Moldova candidate status (Category: Breaking News)
Russian gas supplies to China have shot up by almost 60% in the first four months of 2022 compared to the same period last year, Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Sunday. The deliveries are made through the Power of Siberia pipeline as part of the contract between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), […]
- Russians here to look for oil (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, Gazprom discuss oil exploration-ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- CORRECTED - Sri Lanka, Gazprom discuss oil exploration-ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- Vietnam have all held talks with Sri Lanka on oil exploration (Category: Breaking News)
As Covid-19 tore through the United States in 2020, Elon Musk, Tesla Inc.’s billionaire owner, described lockdowns in the country as “fascist” and a violation of citizens’ freedoms. Two years later, amid far more stringent restrictions in Shanghai, Musk has levelled no such criticism of Beijing’s pandemic response. The contrast reflected what some human rights […]
- Elon Musk Twitter poll shows majority want him to step down (Category: Breaking News)
- Elon Musk says he has appointed new Twitter boss (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan tells Elon Musk it is ‘not for sale’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Elon Musk no longer world’s richest man (Category: Breaking News)
The director of the CIA said that Chinese President Xi Jinping has been “unsettled” by the war in Ukraine, which had demonstrated that the friendship between Beijing and Moscow had “limits” at a time when Western allies were moving closer together. Speaking at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington on Saturday, William Burns said the […]
- Sri Lankan assistance sought after Chinese vessel with 39 crew capsized (Category: Breaking News)
- China refuses to condemn Russia’s Ukraine invasion during G20 deadlock (Category: Breaking News)
- Police fire tear gas on IUSF protest near Education Ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- Shehan Karunatilaka’s book shortlisted for Booker Prize (Category: Breaking News)
Bodies of 44 civilians have been found in the rubble of a collapsed building in the Ukrainian city of Izyum as the battle for control of the area rages. The five-storey building collapsed in March as residents hid in the basement from Russian shelling. But rescuers have only just been able to reach the building, […]
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
- Hong Kong’s John Lee: Ex-security chief set to become new leader (Category: Breaking News)
- EU awards Ukraine and Moldova candidate status (Category: Breaking News)
- Ten dead in attack at supermarket in New York state (Category: Breaking News)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new weapons and equipment for Ukraine on Sunday after an unannounced visit to Kyiv, the capital.
By Steve Grant In 1993 then premier of China, Zhu Rongji, stood in front of a large map on his office wall, pointed to it and saw China’s destiny. China was largely landlocked, he said, open to the sea only on one side. It was different to other great powers who looked out onto a […]
- Chinese military raises tensions everywhere it goes (Category: Breaking News)
- Obama tells Asia, U.S. ‘here to stay’ (Category: Business)
- 2023 outlook: India will mark its rise by showing leadership (Category: Breaking News)
- No inflation respite for Asia despite fall in food, fuel prices (Category: Business)
Copenhagen [Denmark], May 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday said that the green strategic partnership will bring Denmark and India closer and together. Addressing the members of the Indian community in the presence of PM Narendra Modi, Frederiksen said, “I truly hope and believe that this partnership (green strategic partnership) will bring us […]
- Trump presents PM Modi with top US honour ‘Legion Of Merit’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump presents PM Modi with top US honour ‘Legion Of Merit’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump presents PM Modi with top US honour ‘Legion Of Merit’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Our ties have entered T20 mode: PM on deepening relations with Australia (Category: Breaking News)
Russia has dismissed speculation that it will declare all-out war in Ukraine in the coming days as “nonsense”. Moscow has up until now denied it is at war, instead referring to the invasion as a “special military operation”. But Western officials have speculated that President Vladimir Putin could use the 9 May Victory Parade to […]
- Ukraine invasion could cause global food crisis, UN warns (Category: Breaking News)
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel and Switzerland confirm Monkeypox cases (Category: Breaking News)
- North Korea orders strict lockdown with first official Covid cases (Category: Breaking News)
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict highlighted the need for achieving self-reliance in defence even as he lauded the Indian Navy for being at the forefront of the “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” initiative. “Coming to the prevailing security environment in the world, the ongoing Russia and Ukraine conflict has once again highlighted […]
- Indian Defence Minister postpones Sri Lanka visit at 11th hour (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan security forces couldn’t pay training fees to India (Category: Breaking News)
- India will be among top three economies of the world by 2047: Rajnath Singh (Category: Breaking News)
- Myanmar Ports key to China’s Strategy of Controlling Indian Ocean (Category: Breaking News)
The United States is engaging with India over the issue of Ukraine and this will continue in the upcoming Quad summit in Japan next month, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. “We have had a number of engagements, as you know, with leaders in India about our approach to supporting the Ukrainians in […]
- Sri Lanka to discuss debt restructuring with China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka military at Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee pageant (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka seeks Maldives assistance in war on drugs (Category: Breaking News)
- High security briefcase handed over to President (Category: Breaking News)
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