Colombo,  Four people were killed and over 170,000 were affected by days of strong gales and heavy rains which lashed Sri Lanka in recent days, the Disaster Management Centre said on Saturday.

Till Saturday morning, seven people were also missing due to the inclement weather while two others were injured

Ankara,  Turkey has discovered 135 billion cubic meters of addition natural gas in the Black Sea, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

The new discovery in the Amasra-1 field has raised the total potential in the region to 540 billion cubic metres, Xinhua news agency quoted the President as saying on Fri

Moscow,  Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed the need to join efforts globally in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

The world has not yet recovered from the difficulties and restrictions caused by Covid-19, and effective results could only be achieved through cooperation, Putin said on Fr

Mexico City,  Mexico is gearing up for the largest ever mid-term elections in the country's history on Sunday, with tens of thousands of candidates vying to fill more than 20,000 public posts, according to authorities.

The race to watch, said political observers, is the one to fill the Chamber of Dep

Washington,  An unruly US passenger was arrested after he allegedly tried to breach the cockpit on a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Nashville, said authorities Friday.

Delta on Friday expressed the company's gratitude in a statement to the crew and passengers of Flight 386, from the Los A

Baghdad,  French President Emmanuel Macron said that his government is ready to support the Iraqi parliamentary elections slated for October 10, according to an official statement issued in Baghdad.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi received a phone call from Macron on Friday, in which the Presiden

Bern, The Swiss Federal Council announced that certificates for Covid-19, both in electronic and paper form, will be issued from June 7 onwards and the complete system surrounding certificates should be ready by the end of this month.

As the ordinance forming the legal basis of Covid-19 certificates was appro

Rome,  Italy's economy is poised to start a period of "sustained growth", according to the country's National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT).

The institute on Friday predicted that the country's economy would grow 4.7 per cent this year and 4.4 per cent in 2022, reports Xinhua news

Gaza,  Egypt has sent massive engineering equipment and crew to the Gaza Strip for its reconstruction after the 11-day devastating bloodshed in and around the Palestinian enclave last month.

The equipment, including a large number of trucks, bulldozers and cranes, will remove debris and rubble from the b

New York,  Amid the leaked Anthony S Fauci emails and independent investigations into the Wuhan lab secrets, reports have emerged again that the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China was funded by the US government and the virology lab, headed by Shi Zhengli, received nearly $600,000 in 'gain-of-fun