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February 16, 2026 9:30 PM
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A delegation led by Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, arrived in Sri Lanka today for a three-day visit to assess damage caused by Cyclone Ditwah. The team will visit affected areas in central Sri Lanka before holding talks in Colombo with President Anura K...
February 16, 2026 9:07 PM
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, including other Foreign dignitaries, will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in Bangladesh tomorrow, led by Tarique Rahman following his party’s landslide victory in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad elections. India’s Ministry of External Affairs said Birla ...
February 16, 2026 9:21 PM
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency in Geneva today, ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Minister met with Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Raf...
February 16, 2026 6:05 PM
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The Election Commission of Nepal has set a 15-day period for election campaigning for the House of Representatives elections, directing all stakeholders to fully comply with the election code of conduct. According to the commission, political parties and candidates are permitted to campaign from m...
February 16, 2026 5:18 PM
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A Baloch student was extrajudicially killed by Pakistani forces in Balochistan. Condemning the extrajudicial killing of 22-year-old Junaid Ahmed, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department Paank said that Ahmed's body was found on the eastern bypass in provincial capital Quetta yesterd...
February 16, 2026 2:03 PM
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Myanmar has ordered today the head of ASEAN member state East Timor’s diplomatic mission to leave the country within seven days. This came a month after Myanmar's Chin state Human Rights Organisation (CHRO) filed a complaint with the justice department of East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, alleg...
February 16, 2026 1:39 PM
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Israel's cabinet approved a plan on Sunday to restart formal land registration in the occupied West Bank, marking the first such measure since Israel captured the territory in 1967. The decision, advanced by far-right ministers including finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, justice minister Yariv Le...
February 16, 2026 12:09 PM
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Former Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko was detained at the state border while trying to exit the country. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) said its detectives apprehended the ex-minister yesterday while crossing the state border as part of the long-running corrupti...
February 16, 2026 11:16 AM
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Twenty-five fishermen from Karaikal were apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy while fishing near the International Maritime Boundary Line this morning. The incident occurred near the Kaarainagar sea area. The Sri Lankan naval personnel, who were on patrol, alleged that the fishermen had crossed the ma...
February 16, 2026 10:45 AM
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Members of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) have decided to refrain from appearing before courts nationwide in protest over the fatal shooting of a lawyer and his wife in Colombo on Saturday. BASL President Rajeev Amarasuriya has said the decision was taken at a special general meeting foll...
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