US labels Confucius Institute a Chinese ‘foreign mission’
UTV | COLOMBO – The US has designated the Confucius Institute (CI), the Chinese government-run global education programme, as a foreign propaganda mission. The order...
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US suspends private charter flights to Cuba
UTV | COLOMBO – The US administration has suspended all private charter flights between the United States and Cuba, to increase economic pressure on Havana....
US congratulates Sri Lanka for successful conclusion of polls
UTV | COLOMBO – The United States has congratulated Sri Lanka on conducting the General Elections in a peaceful and orderly manner despite the challenges...
Cyclone Isaias reaches Canada after killing at least five in US
UTV | COLOMBO – At least five people have been killed as Tropical Storm Isaias swept through US states on the Atlantic Coast. Two died...
Covid-19: Death toll in US surpasses 150,000
UTV | COLOMBO – The United States on Wednesday surpassed 150,000 recorded Covid-19 deaths — a milestone that comes as the country’s number of daily...
US consulate: China orders US consulate closure in tit-for-tat move
UTV | COLOMBO – China has ordered the closure of the US consulate in the south-western city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat escalation between the...
Major US Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam
UTV | COLOMBO – Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an...
Coronavirus: US surpasses three million cases
UTV | COLOMBO – More than three million people in the US have now tested positive for Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. Over 131,000...
FBI director: China is ‘greatest threat’ to US
(UTV | COLOMBO) – The director of the FBI has said that acts of espionage and theft by China’s government pose the “greatest long-term threat”...
Coronavirus: Trump moves to pull US out of World Health Organization
(UTV | COLOMBO) – President Donald Trump has formally moved to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). The president had made his...