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India to announce dates for general election: official

NEW DELHI, March 10 . India is set to announce Sunday the dates for a national election that will see hundreds of millions of...

Vodafone logs 7.6-billion-euro annual loss

LONDON, May 14. British telecoms giant Vodafone announced Tuesday that it recorded a vast annual loss of 7.6 billion euros ($8.5 billion), hit by...

Toll in Sri Lanka blasts rises to 207: police

COLOMBO, April 21 . The toll in a series of eight blasts in Sri Lanka on Sunday has risen to at least 207, with...

Sri Lankan companies to lose 161.6 mln USD due to COVID-19: Fitch Ratings

COLOMBO, July 21. The COVID-19 pandemic is set to cost listed companies in Sri Lanka 161.6 million U.S. dollars in revenue this financial year,...

Time for a Global Financial Makeover

  New York, April, 25 . In 2015, United Nations member states came together and committed to achieving a comprehensive and universal set of 17...

China raises 2018 defence budget by 8.1 percent

Beijing, March 5. China will raise its defence budget by 8.1 percent in 2018, up from last year's 7 percent, as the communist country...

Disney closes $71B deal for Fox entertainment assets

New York, March 20 . Disney has closed its $71 billion acquisition of Fox's entertainment business, putting "Cinderella," ''The Simpsons," ''Star Wars" and "Dr....

Chinese FM calls for mutual trust with India

BEIJING, March 8. Foreign Minister Wang Yi Thursday called mutual trust "an issue that needs to be addressed urgently" between China and India. "With political...

China protests Taiwan leader’s US transit

BEIJING, March 21 .  China on Thursday protested Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's stopover in the United States after a visit to three Pacific nations,...

More than 113 mn people suffer ‘acute hunger’: UN

PARIS, April 3 . More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced "acute hunger" last year because of wars and climate disasters, with...

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