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Colombo, June 11 (UNI) The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), the country’s electricity regulator, has approved a 15% nationwide hike in electricity tariffs, which will come into effect from tomorrow. In a statement, the PUCSL said tariffs for electric vehicle charging stations will remain unchanged. The tariffs come after a comprehensive government review…
United Nations, June 11 (UNI) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns Tuesday’s school shooting in Graz, Austria, said his spokesman. The secretary-general is deeply shocked and saddened by the school shooting and strongly condemns “this senseless act of violence,” said Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman. Guterres extends his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, the…
Canberra, June 11 (UNI) The Australian government has offered aid to a television news reporter who was shot with a rubber bullet while covering protests in Los Angeles (LA). Penny Wong, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, said on Wednesday that the government has reached out to reporter Lauren Tomasi through the Consulate General in LA…
Bogota, June 11 (UNI) Eight people were killed and 28 others injured Tuesday in a wave of terrorist attacks in southwest Colombia, local authorities confirmed. The latest terrorist attack occurred in a rural area in Jamundi, a town in western Valle del Cauca department, which claimed three lives. Jamundi mayor Paola Castillo condemned the attack…
Washington, June 11 (UNI) People, who burn US flags during protests, should be sentenced to 1 year in jail and the US authorities are working to introduce this measure, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. “People that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year. What they should be doing. We’ll…
Washington, June 11 (UNI) The United States condemns the imposition of sanctions on two sitting ministers in the Israeli government imposed by the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries, and urges their reversal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday. “The United States condemns the sanctions imposed by the governments of United Kingdom,…
Washington, June 11 (UNI) A curfew will be enforced in some parts of Los Angeles amid the ongoing protests, Mayor Karen Bass said. “I wanted to let the city know that I have declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting,” Bass said…
London/Moscow, June 10 (UNI) Urging for a 5% hike in NATO’s defence expenditure, the body’s secretary general Mark Rutte claims that Russia seeks to attack NATO nations by 2030. During his visit to London, Reutte asked all 32 NATO member states to agree to his demand for a big hike in military spending at a…
Aden, Yemen, June 10 (UNI) Yemeni security forces rescued 177 African migrants, including dozens of women, from a human trafficking ring in the Bab al-Mandab area along Yemen’s Red Sea coast on Monday, a security source told Xinhua. Government forces freed the migrants mostly Ethiopians from a smuggling network operating in the coastal district of…
Sydney, June 10 (UNI) Two teenagers have been killed and a third has been injured in a late-night car crash east of Melbourne. Emergency services were called to reports of a car crashing into a tree in the town of Orbost, 300 km east of Melbourne in Australia’s East Gippsland region, at about 12:20 a.m….
