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China retaliates to US envoy's 'Spoiler' comment
"'China, China, China!', our US colleague starts chanting this infamous mantra and blaming China as a 'spoiler' to the island's negotiation with the IMF during her recent interview with a UK television program on Sri Lanka's debt issue," the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said on Twitter and also in a statement.
China strongly resists 'sneaky' visit of the Dalai Lama to Sri Lanka
A top-level delegation from the Chinese Embassy in Colombo met the head monk of one of the influential Buddhist chapters in the country and told him that China strongly opposes any foreign country receiving the Tibetan spiritual leader, who is exiled in India.
Tunisia sees sharp rise in tourism revenues
"In the first 10 days of this year, the number of tourists visiting Tunisia is up 147.9 per cent compared to the same period in 2022," said a Ministry statement. For the whole year of 2022, tourist revenues increased by 83.3 per cent compared to those of 2021, and nearly 6.5 million foreign tourists visited Tunisia
Japan urged to delay discharge of contaminated Fukushima wastewater
While speaking at a livestreamed seminar here on Wednesday, PIF Secretary General Henry Puna is backing the call from independent global experts who say they are not satisfied that the evidence provided so far is independent and verifiable, reports Xinhua news agency.
Iran calls for joint mechanisms to counter unilateral sanctions
Making the remarks in a meeting with Igor Levitin, a senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Iran, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani on Tuesday warned that the unilateral sanctions system disrupts targeted countries' development and exacerbates regional and international crises.
US reports 26,000 weekly child Covid-19 cases
This is a decrease from the previous week, but likely an undercount that increased during the holidays and in 2023, according to the report. Nearly 15.3 million children in the country have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic. More than 140,000 of these cases have been added in the past four weeks, Xinhua news agency reported.
Sweden's refusal to probe Erdogan's puppet incident 'absurd': Turkish FM
"The decision by the (Swedish) prosecutor's office not to probe the incident is extremely absurd, and we all know what the rule of law means," Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a press conference with his visiting Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in the capital Ankara on Tuesday. The incident was a "racist, hateful, hate crime act" and therefore is also against universal values and is a crime according to international law, the Turkish Foreign Minister added.
71 bodies recovered at Nepal's plane crash site, one still missing
"We have found one more body in the Seti River," Guru Datta Dhakal, assistant chief district officer of the Kaski district where the ATR-72 aircraft crashed, told Xinhua. "So the total number of bodies recovered has reached 71. "A Yeti Airlines plane crashed into the Seti river gorge near the city of Pokhara on Sunday when it was flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara with 72 people on board
Developed world to help small farmers in developing nations: India
India is providing millions of solar water pumps to farmers, and will soon produce enough green ammonia to stop imports of ammonia-based fertilisers, which form a big chunk of its import bills, the Minister said.Asked why India is continuing to import cheap Russian gas despite international opprobrium
Republicans, Democrats prepare for big fiscal fight in Congress on raising debt limits
The US debt limit is defined as the money in total the government is allowed to borrow from the Federal Reserve. First created in 1918 and originally set at $11.5 billion, was raised to $45 billion under the aggregate debt limit act enacted by the government in 1939.
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