Tag: UK

Special Rapporteur’s slams both Lanka and UK on accountability failures

Advanced countries decry protectionism after growing under protectionism themselves

The Sri Lankan government welcomes UK’s decision as the LTTE continues to be a threat

The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities, the country's second- and third-largest after Kabul, and a strategic provincial capital on Thursday, further squeezing the embattled government just weeks before the end of the American military mission in Afghanistan.

People who have received both doses of their coronavirus vaccine are three times less likely to get infected with COVID-19, a latest UK study has found.

Britain is taking a more ambitious, generous, and pro-growth approach to trading with developing nations

“They are shrinking civic space at a time when the global environment crisis demands that people’s voices be heard,” said rights rapporteur David Boyd.

Falling sales blamed for the closure

Vietnam has discovered a new COVID-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the strains first found in India and Britain, health officials confirmed Saturday.

The Covishield Astra Zeneca vaccine, which is being used to inoculate health workers and members of the general public is effective against the new UK COVID-19 variant which has been detected in Sri Lanka, Dr. Palitha Abeykoon, WHO Director General's Special Envoy to coordinate the global response to COVID-19