Category: FOREIGN

Coronavirus: South Africa bans alcohol sales again to combat Covid-19

Coronavirus: South Africa bans alcohol sales again to combat Covid-19

Jul 13, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - South Africa has introduced new restrictions, including another ban on alcohol sales, to help contain the ... Read More

Poland’s Duda holds slim lead in presidential election, exit poll suggests

Poland’s Duda holds slim lead in presidential election, exit poll suggests

Jul 13, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Poland's incumbent President Andrzej Duda holds a slim lead after Sunday's presidential election, according to an ... Read More

Australia’s Victoria sees record infections

Australia’s Victoria sees record infections

Jul 12, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Victoria has detected 288 new infections in the past 24 hours - the highest daily tally ... Read More

Mali’s President Keïta dissolves constitutional court amid unrest

Mali’s President Keïta dissolves constitutional court amid unrest

Jul 12, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has announced the dissolution of the constitutional court in an attempt ... Read More

Mali protesters occupy national broadcaster

Mali protesters occupy national broadcaster

Jul 11, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Protesters in Mali have forced the state broadcaster off air during large demonstrations in the capital ... Read More

Bosnia’s Srebrenica massacre 25 years on – in pictures

Bosnia’s Srebrenica massacre 25 years on – in pictures

Jul 11, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  "All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be ... Read More

Emirates set to cut 9,000 jobs, citing pandemic

Emirates set to cut 9,000 jobs, citing pandemic

Jul 11, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -   The president of Emirates said the Middle Eastern airline is set to cut as many ... Read More

Singapore ruling PAP party wins elections, but support falls

Singapore ruling PAP party wins elections, but support falls

Jul 11, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  Singapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has retained power in Friday's general election but with a ... Read More

Roger Stone: Trump spares ex-adviser from prison, sparking critics’ anger

Roger Stone: Trump spares ex-adviser from prison, sparking critics’ anger

Jul 11, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - US President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of his longtime ally and former adviser ... Read More

Indian underworld gang leader Vikas Dubey shot dead by police

Indian underworld gang leader Vikas Dubey shot dead by police

Jul 10, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Vikas Dubey, an underworld gang leader who was arrested while fleeing after plotting to assassinate eight ... Read More

Coronavirus: US surpasses three million cases

Coronavirus: US surpasses three million cases

Jul 9, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - More than three million people in the US have now tested positive for Covid-19, according to ... Read More

Ivory Coast PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly dies after cabinet meeting

Ivory Coast PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly dies after cabinet meeting

Jul 9, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  Ivory Coast's PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly has died after falling ill at a ministerial meeting. The ... Read More

Melania Trump sculpture in Slovenia set on fire on US Independence Day

Melania Trump sculpture in Slovenia set on fire on US Independence Day

Jul 9, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - A quirky wooden sculpture of US First Lady Melania Trump is reported to have been set ... Read More

National security law: Australia suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty

National security law: Australia suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty

Jul 9, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Australia has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in response to fears over a new ... Read More

Oxfam warns Covid hunger could kill more than virus

Oxfam warns Covid hunger could kill more than virus

Jul 9, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Oxfam has warned that, by the end of the year, "12,000 people per day could die ... Read More