Category: WORLD

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –India and the US have signed defence, energy and telecoms deals but failed to reach a much-talked about trade accord.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – ousted by the military in 2011 – has died in Cairo at the age of 91.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – A car has been driven into a crowd at a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – Iran reported eight deaths from the new coronavirus, reaching a grim milestone for the highest death toll outside China where the epidemic started originated.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –US President Donald Trump has just addressed a massive public rally in India with PM Narendra Modi on his first official visit to the country.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –A gunman opened fire on two shisha bars in the western German city of Hanau, killing at least eight people and injuring several others, police say.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced on Monday that he will commit a whopping $10 billion to fight climate change as part of a new initiative.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China reached at least 1,868 as of the end of Monday, with additional 93 deaths from Hubei and five more in other parts of the country, according to the country’s health commission on Tuesday.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The coronavirus infection rate in China’s Hubei province is again on the rise after two days in which the number of new cases slowed, with 1,933 new infections and 100 deaths reported.