[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka will need about $3 billion in external assistance in the next six months to help restore supplies of essential items including fuel and medicine, its finance minister told Reuters on Saturday. The island nation of 22 million people has been hit by prolonged power cuts and shortages which have […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met Prime Minister Boris Johnson, one of his staunchest backers, in Kyiv on Saturday, with the British leader using the visit to set out a new financial and military aid package for Ukraine. Johnson is the latest foreign leader to visit Kyiv after Russian forces pulled back from the […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai’s vice mayor admitted to shortcomings in the city’s handling of its COVID-19 outbreak as a record 23,600 new cases were reported on Saturday, while the U.S. allowed non-essential staff and their families to leave its consulate in the city. Deputy Mayor Zong Ming praised the support from the public and […]