World

Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva was the commanding officer of an army division in the island's northern war-zone in the final months of the military offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.

The move comes amid deepening turmoil in the newspaper industry, with most of the "legacy" companies struggling with the shift to digital news and tech platforms taking up much of the online advertising revenues.

According to a report by The Washington Post and German public broadcaster ZDF, the Swiss company, Crypto AG, entered into a deal with CIA in 1951 and came under its ownership in the 1970s.

As the epidemic squeezed the world's second-biggest economy, Chinese firms struggled to get back to work after the extended Lunar New Year holiday, hundreds of them saying they would need loans running into billions of dollars to stay afloat.

Weinstein, 67, has pleaded not guilty to charges in New York of raping Mann and to sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi.

A key aspect of Trump's defence budget proposals are a massive nuclear modernisation worth $28.9 billion, missile defeat and defence budget $20.3 billion.

Australia had been trying to deport two men — Papua New Guinea citizen Daniel Love and New Zealand citizen Brendan Thoms — under laws that allow a convicted criminal's visa to be cancelled on character grounds.

Indians lead the category of UK visas granted to skilled professionals from outside the EU, with 56,241 such Tier 2 visas granted over the previous year. That figure is expected to rise following the changes.

The event will continue as planned, and companies that have pulled out represent about 8 per cent of participants, said the event organiser Experia Events.

The final decision on a name is expected within days and is up to the WHO itself as well as coronavirus experts on the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).

On Tuesday, Pelosi publicly tore up her copy of Trump's annual State of the Union address, signalling the worsening relationship between the House Speaker and the US President.

Taiwan's China policy-making Mainland Affairs Council said the first flight back, on Monday, had one passenger confirmed to be affected and three others who had fevers.

At least three other cities in eastern Zhejiang province -- Taizhou, Wenzhou and parts of Ningbo -- have imposed the same measures, affecting some 18 million people.

In the nationally televised speech, Trump is speaking from the House of Representatives, on the opposite side of the Capitol from where the Senate one day later is expected to acquit him largely along party lines.

The attackers were apparently searching for specific targets, but then opened fire indiscriminately on customers. Two of the victims were aged 17 and 18.

So far, the new coronavirus has infected tens of thousands worldwide and killed more than 420 people mostly in mainland China.