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Sri Lanka Resumes on Arrival Visa for Tourists, Except from Pakistan and 9 Other Countries

[ad_1] Sri Lanka has announced the resumption of visa on arrival facility for international tourists, except travelers from 10 countries including Pakistan and Nepal. The on-arrival visa facility for foreign tourists was on hold since the pandemic broke out in the country in 2020. The move is expected to give a much-needed boost to the […]

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Biden Warns Putin That Ukraine Attack Will Bring ‘Swift and Severe Costs’: White House

[ad_1] President Joe Biden warned his Kremlin counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call Saturday that the United States “will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on Russia” should it invade Ukraine. According to a readout from the White House, Biden stressed that “while the United States remains prepared to engage in diplomacy,

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One Killed, 42 Injured in Bus Blast in China’s Shenyang City; Probe Underway

[ad_1] At least one person was killed and 42 others injured when a bus exploded in Shenyang City in northeast China’s Liaoning Province on Saturday, police said. Two of the injured sustained critical injuries. Local police said the incident happened at the junction of Huanghe Street and Ningshan Road in Shenyang’s Huanggu District. An investigation

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Biden-Putin Phone Call on Ukraine Crisis Starts: White House

[ad_1] A call Saturday between President Joe Biden and his Kremlin counterpart Vladimir Putin on attempts to avert what the United States says is the danger of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine has begun, the White House said. “President Biden’s secure call with Russian President Putin convened at 11:04,” (1604 GMT), an official told

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US Senators Claim CIA Has Been Collecting Data From Americans Without Their Knowledge

[ad_1] The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said. While neither the agency nor lawmakers would disclose specifics about the data, the senators alleged the CIA had long hidden details about the program from the public and Congress. Sens. Ron Wyden

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From Pakistan to Russia-Ukraine, Quad Meeting Served India a Huge Diplomatic Victory

[ad_1] The Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in Melbourne on Friday had interesting timing. China has been bruised by diplomatic boycotts of its Beijing Winter Olympics and tensions between the United States and Russia on Ukraine are peaking, to say the least, in a telling show of US President Joe Biden’s priorities in foreign policy. Fears

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US Orders Non-emergency Embassy Staff to Leave Ukraine

[ad_1] The United States on Saturday ordered all non-emergency Kyiv embassy staff to leave because of the threat of Russia invading Ukraine. The advisory also repeated an earlier call by US President Joe Biden for Americans to leave the former Soviet republic immediately. The State Department has “ordered the departure of most US direct-hire employees

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Germany Advises Nationals to Leave Ukraine as Tensions Mount

[ad_1] Germany on Saturday asked its nationals whose presence in Ukraine was not “imperative” to leave, saying a “military conflict cannot be excluded” as tensions mount. “Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have again shot up in the last few days due to the massive movements of Russian military units near the Ukrainian border,” the foreign

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Gunmen Kill 9 in Road Ambush in Southern Philippine Town

[ad_1] Gunmen in the southern Philippines killed a Muslim rebel and eight of his companions in a road ambush Saturday that authorities said was apparently sparked by a land dispute. Several attackers raked two SUVs with assault rifle fire in an early morning ambush in an isolated farming village in Guindulungan town in Maguindanao province,

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