Category: FOREIGN

Mexico launches raids after assassination attempt of police chief

Mexico launches raids after assassination attempt of police chief

Jun 28, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Mexican authorities have carried out a series of raids while investigating the attempted assassination of Mexico ... Read More

Shaoquett Moselmane: Australian lawmaker’s office raided ‘amid China probe’

Shaoquett Moselmane: Australian lawmaker’s office raided ‘amid China probe’

Jun 27, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - An Australian lawmaker is to be suspended from his party following reports his office is facing ... Read More

Coronavirus: US has ‘serious problem’, says Fauci

Jun 27, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci says the nation has a "serious problem" as 16 ... Read More

US imposes visa restrictions on Chinese officials over Hong Kong security law

US imposes visa restrictions on Chinese officials over Hong Kong security law

Jun 27, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Washington is imposing visa restrictions on Chinese ... Read More

Singapore bans Britons for lockdown bar crawl

Singapore bans Britons for lockdown bar crawl

Jun 26, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -   A group of British men living in Singapore have been banned from working there again ... Read More

US House passes sweeping police reform bill

US House passes sweeping police reform bill

Jun 26, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -   The US House of Representatives has passed a sweeping police reform bill that currently has ... Read More

Coronavirus: Australia sends 1,000 army personnel to Victoria to fight outbreak

Coronavirus: Australia sends 1,000 army personnel to Victoria to fight outbreak

Jun 25, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Australia is sending 1,000 army personnel to Victoria amid a surge in virus cases in the ... Read More

France’s Eiffel Tower reopens

France’s Eiffel Tower reopens

Jun 25, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - France's iconic Eiffel Tower has opened again to guests after its longest closure since World War ... Read More

Delhi to survey 29 million residents as cases surge

Delhi to survey 29 million residents as cases surge

Jun 25, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  India's capital, Delhi, has announced that it will screen its nearly 30 million residents for Covid-19 ... Read More

Galwan Valley: Satellite images ‘show China structures’ on India border

Galwan Valley: Satellite images ‘show China structures’ on India border

Jun 25, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - China has built new structures near the site of a Himalayan border clash that left 20 ... Read More

Vote counting under way in Malawi’s re-run election

Vote counting under way in Malawi’s re-run election

Jun 24, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Votes are being counted in Malawi following a re-run of last year's election on Tuesday. Polling ... Read More

Nigeria police rescue 300 workers ‘locked in rice factory’

Nigeria police rescue 300 workers ‘locked in rice factory’

Jun 24, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Police in Nigeria have rescued 300 people they say were locked in a rice-processing factory and ... Read More

Israel West Bank annexation rejected by European MPs in letter

Israel West Bank annexation rejected by European MPs in letter

Jun 24, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - More than 1,000 parliamentarians from across Europe have signed a letter strongly opposing plans by Israel ... Read More

Southern Mexico hit by 7.4 magnitude earthquake

Southern Mexico hit by 7.4 magnitude earthquake

Jun 24, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were ... Read More

Top US health official Fauci warns of ‘disturbing’ new US surge

Top US health official Fauci warns of ‘disturbing’ new US surge

Jun 24, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - America's top infectious disease expert has told lawmakers that the US is seeing a "disturbing surge" ... Read More