Tag: US

217 Sri Lankans return from the US

217 Sri Lankans return from the US

Jun 23, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - 217 Sri Lankans who were stranded in the United States due to COVID-19 restriction have returned ... Read More

Metin Topuz: Turkish court jails US consulate employee for terror offences

Metin Topuz: Turkish court jails US consulate employee for terror offences

Jun 13, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - A Turkish employee of the US consulate in Istanbul has been sentenced to almost nine years ... Read More

‘Identify US diplomat who refused PCR testing’

‘Identify US diplomat who refused PCR testing’

Jun 6, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Former MP Thushara Indunil charges that quarantine law has been undermined due to certain actions of ... Read More

US diplomat refusing PCR test is so disappointing: Namal Rajapakse

US diplomat refusing PCR test is so disappointing: Namal Rajapakse

Jun 5, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Expressing disappointment over the incident where a senior diplomat of the US Embassy leaving the airport ... Read More

Activism in US against systemic racism a powerful lesson to all: Kumar Sangakkara

Activism in US against systemic racism a powerful lesson to all: Kumar Sangakkara

Jun 3, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Former cricketer Kumar Sangakkara said today that the activism in the US against systemic racism and injustice ... Read More

Coronavirus deaths in US top 100,000

Coronavirus deaths in US top 100,000

May 28, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  The US has passed 100,000 deaths in the coronavirus outbreak in less than four months. It ... Read More

Coronavirus: US suspends travel from Brazil for foreigners

Coronavirus: US suspends travel from Brazil for foreigners

May 26, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The US has imposed travel restrictions on foreign nationals who have been to Brazil in the ... Read More

Iran oil tanker reaches Venezuela amid US tension

Iran oil tanker reaches Venezuela amid US tension

May 24, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) -  The first of five Iranian oil tankers has entered Venezuela's waters carrying more than a million ... Read More

SL origin in US wanted by FBI over alleged rape of minor

SL origin in US wanted by FBI over alleged rape of minor

May 22, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is on the hunt of Sri Lankan origin US citizen ... Read More

Coronavirus: Trump says US reopening, ‘vaccine or no vaccine’

Coronavirus: Trump says US reopening, ‘vaccine or no vaccine’

May 16, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - President Donald Trump says the US will reopen, "vaccine or no vaccine", as he announced an ... Read More

US targets Huawei with tighter chip export rules

US targets Huawei with tighter chip export rules

May 15, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The US has announced new export controls aimed at limiting Chinese technology giant Huawei's access to ... Read More

Sri Lanka to export 200 million face masks to US

Sri Lanka to export 200 million face masks to US

May 15, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Brandix Apparel Limited has started to export 200 million face masks to the United States, the ... Read More

Obama calls US response a ‘chaotic disaster’

Obama calls US response a ‘chaotic disaster’

May 10, 2020

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Former US president Barack Obama called the US response to the coronavirus pandemic a "chaotic disaster" ... Read More

Acting US Navy secretary resigns

Acting US Navy secretary resigns

Apr 8, 2020

(FASTNEWS | WASHINGTON) - Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday amid controversy over his attacks against a fired captain ... Read More

China to restrict US journalists from three major newspapers

China to restrict US journalists from three major newspapers

Mar 18, 2020

(FASTNEWS |Coronavirus Outbreak) - China has effectively expelled journalists from three US newspapers in retaliation for restrictions on its news ... Read More