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Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel jurist who pressed Sri Lanka on wartime accountability as UN rights chief honoured for decades of human rights advocacy.
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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy cited the classicist's 'bold and inventive oeuvre'. Carson was in Iceland when the call came, listening to the wind.
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Christa Pike walking in hospital after Tennessee execution attempt failed
A lawyer says Christa Pike is up and walking after surviving two lethal injections in Tennessee, in what experts call an unprecedented case.
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Iran warns it will block unauthorised Hormuz routes as tanker attacks mount
A chemical tanker was struck off Qatar on Thursday. Tehran has told regional states that opening new export routes would be treated as a hostile act.
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Sri Lanka tells Iran it will not supply the stranded vessels, citing US sanctions exposure
The Foreign Ministry has informed Tehran it will withhold food, water and medicine from about 20 crews, and advised private firms to do the same.
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Maldives bars switching to work visas after arrival
Foreign nationals entering the Maldives on business or special visas can no longer convert to a work visa. The rule has applied since 15 September.
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Montana Governor Greg Gianforte arrives in Sri Lanka on Friday to push pulse exports
Montana Governor Gianforte's delegation meets pulse importers; Adjutant General advances US-Sri Lanka State Partnership.
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Sri Lankan monk jailed in Melbourne for abusing six girls at a Buddhist temple
Naotunne Vijitha, 71, former chief monk at the Dhamma Sarana temple, was sentenced in Victoria's County Court over offences committed between 1994 and 2002.
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Sri Lanka and Lithuania sign MoU on first high-level visit in 30 years of ties
Vice-Minister Vidmantas Verbickas led the first Lithuanian state delegation to Sri Lanka, signing a political consultations MoU and opening talks on.
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US proposes $70,000 fee for international students to work after study
US proposes charging F-1 students $70,000 for Optional Practical Training—up from $500. Impacts path to H-1B visa.
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Sri Lanka's new ambassador to France presents credentials to Macron
Sugeeshwara Gunaratna was received at the Elysee Palace on Monday, completing an accreditation process that began when he assumed duties in Paris in July.
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India tells its Supreme Court it will not reopen the Katchatheevu accords, and directs fishermen to stay out of Sri Lankan waters
India refuses to revisit Katchatheevu agreement; Supreme Court adjourns fisheries dispute.
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Sri Lanka's former envoy to Nigeria sends condolences after military air crash
A Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 with 32 aboard came down in Ondo State. Former ambassador Kana Kananathan conveyed a message to the Nigerian Air Force.
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Nobel chemistry prize goes to two scientists who taught molecules to pick a hand
2026 Nobel Prize Chemistry awarded for single-handed molecule synthesis breakthrough.
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Nobel physics prize goes to the man who turned Antarctic ice into a telescope
2026 Nobel Prize Physics awarded for IceCube neutrino detection from deep space.
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US Navy littoral combat ship USS Tulsa docks at Colombo for second visit in two years
The Independence-variant warship will refuel and resupply before resuming its Indo-Pacific mission. It last called at Colombo in August 2025.
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Sri Lanka's ambassador to Lebanon visits UNIFIL headquarters and the Sri Lankan contingent
Ambassador meets UNIFIL force commander, visits Sri Lankan peacekeepers at Naqoura.
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Cabinet clears mutual visa exemption with Thailand three weeks after Colombo lost its 60-day waiver
Ordinary passport holders from both countries could travel visa-free for 30 days at a time, capped at 90 days in any 180-day window.
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UN climate chief calls pregnancy a 'new faultline' of the heat crisis
Simon Stiell cites a Wellcome survey in which 73% of maternal health professionals report a rise in heat-related complications over five years.
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Nobel medicine prize goes to the three scientists behind optogenetics
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 prize for the light-switch technique that reshaped neuroscience.
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Foreign Minister denies US pressured Sri Lanka over Iranian vessels
Vijitha Herath says 47 vessels sit outside Sri Lanka's territorial waters, 19 of them Iranian, and that Washington made no request and applied no pressure.
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UAE calls flydubai cockpit attack a terrorist act as airline halts Israel flights
Co-pilot used crash axe on captain in cockpit attack; flydubai suspends Dubai-Tel Aviv flights indefinitely.
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Two oil tankers struck by projectiles near Strait of Hormuz, UK maritime agency says
UKMTO says tankers were hit by unidentified projectiles, one of them four nautical miles off Oman. All crew on that vessel were reported safe.
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Indian police detain protesters for second day as 'Cockroach' movement targets election chief
Demonstrators in New Delhi demanded the resignation of India's election commissioner over voter-roll changes they say favour Narendra Modi's party.