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US sanctions pressure leaves 20 Iranian tankers off Sri Lanka without supplies
Shipping agents say they cannot get approval to resupply 20 stranded Iranian tankers, even as captains request food and water.
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Basil Fernando, Sri Lankan jurist and Right Livelihood laureate, dies at 81
The lawyer, poet and long-serving head of the Asian Human Rights Commission spent three decades documenting torture and police abuse across Asia.
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28 Sri Lankan minority youth complete leadership training in India
Five-day ILOGE leadership programme at NIESBUD in Noida ran 21–25 September under Indian scheme offering 700 slots yearly to Sri Lankan professionals.
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MI5 issues its first public espionage alert over a Chinese institute funding UK academics
MI5 says the China General Technology Research Institute funded work by more than 100 UK-based academics on behalf of Beijing's intelligence service.
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Sri Lanka and Australia conclude sixth senior officials talks and fourth maritime dialogue
Colombo talks on September 21 covered political affairs, agriculture, trade, defence and education, with both sides agreeing to deepen maritime cooperation.
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Vijitha Herath wraps up UNGA81 with Guterres, UAE, Nepal and three UN meetings
The foreign minister's New York programme covered peacekeeping, debt architecture reform and the National Human Rights Review Mechanism across six engagements.
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Vijitha Herath meets Iran's Araghchi at the UN, urges de-escalation
Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister met his Iranian counterpart on the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly and called for regional tensions to be wound down.
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India sends three tonnes of anti-TB medicines to Sri Lanka
The consignment was flown into Colombo aboard an Indian Air Force C-130J, announced by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
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Foundation stone laid for 51 Indian-funded estate houses at Alagolla, Badulla
The units fall under Stage 2 of Phase IV of the Indian Housing Project, which targets 10,000 homes for the plantation community across six provinces.
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Singapore charges man over AI-generated crocodile image that shut a reservoir
A Myanmar national faces two charges after an AI image of a crocodile at Pandan Reservoir triggered a search operation and suspended water sports.
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Congo's Ebola outbreak passes 8,000 confirmed cases
Bundibugyo-strain outbreak reaches 8,067 cases and 3,901 deaths, now the largest and deadliest in Congo's history.
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Sri Lanka's envoy in Riyadh meets Saudi public diplomacy deputy minister
Ambassador Ameer Ajwad held talks with Raed bin Abdullah Al-Kurmaili on expanding cooperation, the Sri Lankan Embassy in Riyadh said.
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US and Sri Lanka Navy build nuclear smuggling detection capacity in Colombo workshop
US-Sri Lanka workshop builds capacity for detecting illicit nuclear and radioactive materials.
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Floods and landslides kill 19 across India and Nepal as major rivers breach danger marks
Uttar Pradesh recorded 19 times its normal rainfall in 24 hours. Ten workers are missing after an avalanche buried a Himlung Himal base camp in Nepal.
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India's foreign minister works the Gulf file at the UN, meeting Iran, Russia and Oman
India's Jaishankar meets Russian, Iranian FMs at UNGA81. Discusses Gulf conflict; co-chairs India-GCC Troika.
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Sri Lankan-origin schoolgirl, 16, named after fatal north London collision
Melissa Premaratne, a Year 12 pupil at Highgate School, died on North Road on September 24. A 68-year-old driver was arrested and released on bail.
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Pope Leo draws 800,000 to Paris Mass, the largest event of his France tour
The Vatican put the Champs-Élysées crowd at 800,000 — some 200,000 more than had registered. Leo heads to Lourdes to meet seven survivors of clerical abuse.
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Two mass shootings in South Africa leave 27 dead within hours of each other
Seventeen were killed at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday night and 10 outside a Cape Town venue hours later. No arrests have been made.
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Swiss voters reject bid to write a stricter form of neutrality into the constitution
More than two-thirds voted against an SVP initiative that would have barred Switzerland from sanctions not approved by the UN and from NATO cooperation.
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Venezuela's interim president leaves the UN with photographs but no deals
Delcy Rodriguez went to the General Assembly seeking debt, energy and mining agreements. She left with none, and still without an election date.
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Six dead, four of them American, as blast levels Athens tourist-district building
All six people missing in the Plaka explosion were found dead on Saturday. A suspected gas leak brought down a two-storey building at the foot of the Acropolis.
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Bangkok declared a disaster zone as three days of rain floods the city
Bangkok's 50 districts declared disaster zone after 300mm rain. Governor Chadchart orders evacuation shelters.
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Etna ash shuts Catania airport into Sunday as Italy raises red aviation alert
Sicily's busiest airport suspended flights on Saturday after Mount Etna sent an ash plume about 4km high. Arrivals are halted until midday Sunday.
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China and US agree $30bn tariff cut and AI talks — and rule out tolls on waterways
Beijing says an eight-point consensus from Xi's Washington visit covers tariffs, AI and a line on transit tolls that bears directly on the Hormuz dispute.