Category: FOREIGN

New curbs as US COVID-19 cases surpass 11 million

New curbs as US COVID-19 cases surpass 11 million

Nov 16, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  Michigan and Washington are the latest US states to bring in strict measures to try and ... Read More

Austria shuts schools, most stores, to curb spread of virus

Austria shuts schools, most stores, to curb spread of virus

Nov 15, 2020

(FASTNEWS |   BERLIN) - Austria announced Saturday that it is tightening its partial lockdown, including by closing non-essential stores and ... Read More

Typhoon Vamco heads for Vietnam after 53 are killed in the Philippines

Typhoon Vamco heads for Vietnam after 53 are killed in the Philippines

Nov 15, 2020

(FASTNEWS |  PHILIPPINES) - Typhoon Vamco is hurtling towards Vietnam, expected to make landfall early Sunday, after leaving 53 dead ... Read More

US election security officials reject Trump’s fraud claims

US election security officials reject Trump’s fraud claims

Nov 13, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  US election officials have said the 2020 White House vote was the "most secure in American ... Read More

Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi’s party wins majority in election

Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi’s party wins majority in election

Nov 13, 2020

(FASTNEWS | MYANMAR) - The ruling party of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won enough parliamentary seats to ... Read More

Joe Biden thanked Pope Francis for ‘extending blessings and congratulations’

Joe Biden thanked Pope Francis for ‘extending blessings and congratulations’

Nov 13, 2020

(FASTNEWS |  US) -  President-elect Joe Biden, the second Catholic elected president of the United States, spoke this morning with ... Read More

China Sinovac vaccine trial halted in Brazil

China Sinovac vaccine trial halted in Brazil

Nov 10, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  The Brazilian clinical trial for a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine has been suspended after health authorities reported ... Read More

Trump camp vows legal fight just began

Trump camp vows legal fight just began

Nov 10, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  US attorney general William Barr has allowed prosecutors to probe alleged irregularities in the presidential election, ... Read More

Global COVID-19 cases surge past 50 million

Global COVID-19 cases surge past 50 million

Nov 9, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  The total of confirmed coronavirus cases has surged past 50 million following record numbers of new ... Read More

Myanmar vote count begins with Suu Kyi win expected

Myanmar vote count begins with Suu Kyi win expected

Nov 9, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -   Vote counting is under way in Myanmar following Sunday's general election, with Aung San Suu ... Read More

White House Chief of Staff tests positive for COVID-19

White House Chief of Staff tests positive for COVID-19

Nov 7, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for Covid-19, officials have told US ... Read More

Biden predicts victory over Trump as counts go on

Biden predicts victory over Trump as counts go on

Nov 7, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Joe Biden has again said he is confident of victory as he inches closer to beating ... Read More

Trump alleges “Shenanigans” as Biden urges calm

Trump alleges “Shenanigans” as Biden urges calm

Nov 6, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  US President Donald Trump has accused Democrats of voting "shenanigans" as the result from Tuesday's White ... Read More

Guatemala landslide kills at least 50

Guatemala landslide kills at least 50

Nov 6, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  At least 50 people have been killed by landslides in Guatemala after Storm Eta's torrential rain ... Read More

US election 2020 live results

US election 2020 live results

Nov 4, 2020

LIVE (FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Early results from the US presidential election between incumbent Republican Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger ... Read More