Sri Lanka seeking another US $ 250 Mn swap from Bangladesh

MADISON, Wis. - Sarah Shulze, a runner on the University of Wisconsin's track and cross country teams and former student-athlete in Ventura County, has died. She was 21.Shulze's family announced on April 15 that she died by suicide two days earlier."Sarah took her own life," the family said.

Victoria Beckham has detailed the interesting health treatments she recently underwent during a relaxing spa holiday. The 48 year old, who recently returned from Miami with her family, is known for living an ultra-healthy lifestyle, and has previously shown fans a glimpse of her gruelling workouts and strict diet online. Most recently, the former Spice Girl headed to Northern Italy where she stayed at The Palace Merano, a luxurious spa located in the mountains.

The number of people who have died with Covid-19 since the virus was first recorded in Ireland has passed 7,000.

Ontarians say will help them determine how to cast their ballots in the upcoming provincial election, a new Ipsos poll has found.The survey, conducted exclusively for Global News between April 13 and 14, had each respondent identify their three most important issues ahead of the election.The survey found that Ontario voters said health care, the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, lowering taxes, helping with day-to-day expenses, and making housing more affordable were the top five issues that will determine how they vote on election day. Key promises in the Ontario NDP’s 2022 election platform A total of 31 per cent of respondents chose health care as a top-three issue, while 25 per cent said the handling of COVID-19 was one of the top three issues that would determine how they would vote.Meanwhile, 24 per cent said lowering taxes was a top-three issue.

Coronation Street fans were left thinking the worst when it became clear George Shuttleworth was hiding something from Eileen Grimshaw. The funeral director, played by actor Tony Maudsley in the ITV soap, has been refusing to stay over at his girlfriend's house or let her pay him a visit at his.

Tony Staggs reeled in a 50-pound lake sturgeon at the Lake of the Ozarks. (Missouri Dept. of Conservation) An angler in Missouri recently reeled in something you don't see every day — a lake sturgeon.Troy Staggs caught the elusive fish, according to the Missouri Dept.

Beijing has launched mass coronavirus testing for nearly all its 21 million residents, as fears grew that the Chinese capital may be placed under a strict lockdown like Shanghai.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, on Tuesday reported 31 fresh Covid-19 infections in the campus, with the total tally touching 111.

The National Health Authority (NHA) has revised the draft Health Data Management (HDM) policy with the objective to protect individuals’ personal data.

COVID is at higher risk for heart issues—clots, inflammation, arrhythmias—a risk that **persists even in relatively healthy people** long after the illness has passed, tweeted Eric Feigl-Ding.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Cement prices were increased with effect from midnight on Monday (25).The price of a bag of imported cement was increased by Rs.500/-, and the new price of a bag of imported Cement is Rs. 2,850/-.The price of a bag of local cement has also been increased by Rs.400/- from midnight yesterday.

COLOMBO (News 1st); China has said it does not prefer debt restructuring, but is ready to offer another loan to settle existing loans, says Cabinet Spokesperson & Minister Nalaka Godahewa on Tuesday (26).Addressing the weekly Cabinet Media Briefing said given the present crisis in Sri Lanka, the country needs around US $ 4 Billion to over come the crisis.“China’s position is that since it has offered loans to many countries, permitting debt restructuring for one country, it would affect the others. Therefore, they have proposed for another loan to settle the existing loans.

Premier John Horgan’s future after he used some inappropriate language in the B.C. legislature on Monday.Following a question from BC Liberal MLA Trevor Halford about the family doctor shortage, Horgan was heckled relentlessly by the opposition.“They don’t want an answer, Honourable Speaker, because they are part of the problem.

The Satanic Temple has filed a lawsuit against a Pennsylvanian elementary school after the school board voted to deny the establishment of the After School Satan club.Northern Elementary School in York, Pa., is being sued on the grounds of constitutional violation. The Satanic Temple intends to prove the school board discriminated against the temple by barring the creation of the After School Satan club, despite other organizations being allowed to operate their own programs.Mathew Kezhaya, the general counsel for The Satanic Temple, told ABC the litigation could take up to two years to complete — potentially longer if the case were moved to the U.S.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka must tighten monetary policy, raise tax and adopt flexible exchange rates to address its debt crisis, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said on Tuesday.The country of 22 million people has requested loans from the IMF as it struggles to pay for imports amid crushing debt and a sharp drop in foreign exchange reserves that has fueled soaring inflation.“We’ve had very good, fruitful, technical discussions on preparations for the negotiations with authorities over the past weekend and couple of days before,” said Anne-Marie Gulde-Wolf, acting director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department, speaking at an online news conference.Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ali Sabry was in Washington last week to talk to the IMF, the World Bank, India and others about financing help for his country, which has suspended payments on portions of its $51 billion in external debt.“The requirement for fund lending will be progress toward debt sustainability,” Gulde-Wolf said, calling on Sri Lanka for measures to increase tax revenues to address critical spending needs.“Monetary policy has to be tightened to keep inflation in check,” she said. “We see a need for flexible exchange rates.”Gulde-Wolf did not reply to a question on the total value for any IMF package, nor the estimated timing of a conclusion to the negotiations with Sri Lanka.

Covid-19, according to news agency PTI report. 

With the new infections, the total cases in the country have gone up to 43,06,02,569 including 15,636 active cases. The active cases account for 0.04% of the total cases

LOWER MERION, Pa. - A volunteer Lower Merion firefighter is back doing what he loves after recovering from an accident on I-76 last summer.Sam Shaffer, 18, is back with the Lower Merion High School's men’s lacrosse team as he makes his debut back on the field this week after recovering from severe injuries caused by an accident that seriously injured one of his colleagues and killed another. Back on July 24, around 3 a.m., emergency crews responded to a crash involving two vehicles in the westbound lanes of I-76 in Lower Merion Township.At 3:23 a.m., authorities say Jacquelyn Walker, 63, was operating a Jeep Grand Cherokee in the right lane as she approached the scene of the crash. They say she then crossed over the rumble strips on the side of the highway and plowed into the crash scene, injuring Shaffer and his friend, Alex Fischer and killing firefighter, Tom Royds. RELATED:Shaffer was flown from the scene of the accident to Penn Presbyterian where he spent about a week with a brain bleed, fractured eye socket, broken leg, and a torn ACL and MCL. Now, Shaffer is back in both uniforms, and he says he owes it all to his family and his never-give-up attitude. "It feels great finally getting back out with the family, the team, firefighting again, it feels great," he said.

PHILADELPHIA - Pascal Siakam scored 23 points, Precious Achiuwa had 17 and the Toronto Raptors forced a return home for Game 6 in their Eastern Conference first-round series against Philadelphia, beating the 76ers 103-88 on Monday night.Yo, Canada! Once holding a 3-0 series lead, the 76ers are headed back north.The Raptors have won two straight in the series and jumped all over injured Sixers center Joel Embiid and ineffective James Harden to make Thursday night's game a necessity.Embiid had 20 points and 11 rebounds playing with a thumb injury. Harden scored 15 points on 4-of-11 shooting.Sixers coach Doc Rivers is dragging the weight of ignominious NBA history with him through customs.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (FOX 9) - The Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin police chief is warning residents to be vigilant after a 10-year-old girl was found dead on Monday.The body of 10-year-old Iliana "Lily" Peters was found Monday morning in a wooded area near a trail in Chippewa Falls.

CHERRY HILL, N.J. - Days after New Jersey opened the market on recreational marijuana, some dispensaries have needed to make adjustments to manage the high demand between customers and medical marijuana patients.New Jersey joined 18 other states - plus the District of Columbia - last Thursday when it officially allowed recreational cannabis sales. Thirty-seven states have allowed for medical marijuana, including Pennsylvania and Delaware.In the early days of recreational marijuana in New Jersey, the state is trying to figure out how customers and patients can coexist.

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LOS ANGELES - On March 30, the sun released one of the strongest types of solar flares — known as an X-class flare — prompting organizations like The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to sound the alarm on the arrival of a "cannibal" coronal mass ejection (CME).While "cannibal" sounds like a scary word, it’s simply a frenzy of fast-moving solar eruptions that group together in the same region of space triggering a powerful geomagnetic storm.While the solar storm caused no Hollywood-style destruction, its most visible effect was instead a colorful show of the aurora borealis that could be visible at latitudes farther south than usual.Though the energy of this storm was harmlessly absorbed by Earth’s magnetic field, large solar storms do have the potential to wreak havoc.Here’s everything you need to know to survive a potentially devastating coronal mass ejection. In order to understand what a CME is, it's important to understand the solar cycle. Every 11 years, the sun completes a solar cycle in which mass amounts of radiation and plasma are emitted in the form of solar storms. During this cycle, large eruptions of immense energy containing the power of several nuclear bombs explode from the surface of the sun, ripple through space and inevitably strike Earth.

Today we are reporting 6,380 community cases, 508 hospitalisations and four deaths.

COVID-19 working in a high-risk setting for close to two years, a Hamilton doctor says he feels fortunate to have been vaccinated when the affliction caught up with him in March.Dr. Sunjay Sharma couldn’t believe it when his rapid antigen test turned up positive on the 10th after having followed prevention protocols for years and dodging the affliction during some of the pandemic’s darkest days.“I got home that evening and I wasn’t feeling well.

Police announced charges against Antonio Burke in connection with a murder in Palmyra last week.  PALMYRA, N.J. - A New Jersey man is facing murder charges in the killing of his ex-girlfriend who was found shot to death in the parking lot of a Burlington County car wash last week. Authorities say Antonio Burke, 32, of the 2000 block of Harbor Drive in Palmyra was charged with murder of a 28-year-old woman who was found fatally shot in the parking lot of a self-service car wash on Filmore Street in Palmyra. Burke, was taken into custody early Monday morning following a traffic stop in Texas, where he will appear in court on Tuesday.RELATED: Police say the investigation began after officers from the Palmyra Police Department were called to the Hot Wet and Wax car wash at around 10:45 p.m. on April 18 for a report of an unconscious woman who was bleeding.

US actress Amber Heard looks over he shoulder during the 50 million US dollars Depp vs Heard defamation trial at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia,on April 14, 2022. - Heard is being sued for defamation by her former husband, US a FAIRFAX, Va. - A cosmetic company is refuting claims that actor Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard used its makeup product to cover up abuse, claiming the product-in-question didn’t exist at the time. Depp is suing Heard for libel and the lawsuit itself is supposed to be over whether Heard libeled Depp when she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post about domestic violence.

Canada’s border rules are changing again as the country enters a warming spring season with restrictions easing across the nation.

Gallery: ‘My mother and father didn’t know what to do!' Did you know these stars lived with epilepsy? (BANG Showbiz)Halsey previously confessed to having surgery shortly before they attended the Grammys. The chart-topping star explained that despite their health problems, they were determined to attend the ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

BRISTOL, Pa. - A Bucks County man is facing charges in a deadly Christmas Eve hit-and-run after he turned himself in on Monday. According to police, 65-year-old John Dugan was walking to a Christmas party with a woman on State Road near 4th Avenue just after 5 p.m. when a suspected medical condition caused him to fall into the road. The woman who was walking with Dugan told responding officers that she tried to help him up, but a passing truck ran him over, authorities said.

DALLAS - A Texas appeals court on Monday delayed the execution of Melissa Lucio amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter in a case that has garnered the support of lawmakers, celebrities and even some jurors who sentenced her to death.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a request by Lucio's lawyers for a stay of execution so a lower court can review her claims that new evidence would exonerate her. It was not immediately known when the lower court would begin reviewing her case. Lucio had been set for lethal injection Wednesday for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah in Harlingen, Texas.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stepped in just two days before Lucio was scheduled to die by lethal injection. In its decision, the state court ordered the Cameron County trial court to consider new evidence presented by Lucio’s legal team.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia father was killed in a rowhome fire when neighbors say he went back into the inferno to search for his three children who also perished. The School District of Philadelphia on Monday identified the young victims of the fire as Yamalier, 5, Yadriel, 9, and 12-year-old Alexangel. Authorities say the children, along with their father Alexis, died in a fire that erupted in a rowhome on the 3200 block of Hartville Street around 2 a.m.

EMMAUS, Pa. - A Lehigh Valley Borough is suing nearly 2 dozen companies that make foam used to put out fires because officials in the borough say that the toxic chemicals found in the foam were also found in its water supply. The Borough of Emmaus is alleging that two of the borough's wells became contaminated from a nearby fire-fighting facility. They're saying that the foam, which was used at the facility for more than 50 years, seeped into the ground and contaminated the water wells. Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) say that when they tested the water wells of Emmaus last year, they found well over the 70 parts per trillion of cancer-causing chemicals that the EPA deems safe. In one of the wells, which is 150 feet away from the fire facility, the EPA say they found 456 parts per trillion of the chemicals.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Winds from the East will keep temperatures in the 50s and low 60s across the Delaware Valley Monday evening.Clouds will keep temperatures mild overnight, but they will rise tomorrow with an average high of 68.High of 72 in Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon, with showers and clouds moving in. After Tuesday, we have a dry week with blustery temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday. Northern parts of Pennsylvania have unexpected snow on the radar Wednesday afternoon.Mild temperatures will return to the 60s and will lead us into a mostly sunny and pleasant weekend. TUESDAY: A few p.m. showers.

PHILADELPHIA - Law enforcement sources tell FOX 29 that criminal charges are expected in a deadly assault that happened outside a Philadelphia bar earlier this month.Police say surveillance video shows from Apr. 16 shows 41-year-old Eric Pope being escorted out of Tabu Lounge and Sports bar in Center City around 1 a.m.

MARLBOROUGH TWP. - Authorities say two adults and a child were killed in an apparent murder-suicide at a home in Chester County. Officers from the East Marlborough Township Police Department went to a home on Federal Walk in Kennett Square Monday for a wellness check. Police say a 55-year-old man, a 50-year-old woman and a 12-year-old were found shot to death. Police found multiple spent shell casings and a semi-automatic handgun at the home.

As China battles an Omicron-fueled COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai, its largest city, it is also now seeing cases rise in Beijing, its capital and home to more than 21 million people.

Three new observational studies from Scotland, Denmark, and the United States detail reduced hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits for Omicron COVID-19 infections relative to those caused by the Delta variant, as well as strong but waning third-dose vaccine effectiveness over time against Omicron.

Santa Claus photographed with a sign that reads "Medicare for all, Health care is a right." NORTH POLE, Alaska - Santa Claus is among 48 candidates running for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat following the death last month of Republican Rep.

COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.2, has peaked, the region’s medical officer of health said Monday.However, Dr. Alex Summers stresses that he’ll be more confident to make an official declaration once there is a sustained decline in COVID-19 transmission, noting that risk of infection remains at its highest point compared to any time before the Omicron wave.“Making those conclusions is always easier to do in the rear-view mirror.

COVID-19 present in Prince Albert’s wastewater has more than doubled.The latest findings from the University of Saskatchewan monitoring team show the amount of virus RNA jumped up 112.7 per cent over the previous reporting period. COVID had him on his deathbed, then frontline hospital workers saved this Sask man’s life USask toxicologist John Giesy told Global News “100 per cent is a doubling.”“It sounds like a lot, but it’s about typical for what we see when we’re on the upward swing in one of these waves.

A modeling study estimates that COVID-19 vaccination prevented more than 1.5 million infections, 72,000 hospitalizations, and 19,000 deaths in the first 10 months of vaccination in California, according to a study published late last week in JAMA Network Open.University of California researchers created a statistical model usin

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As much as 80-90% of blood and throat swab samples collected from covid-19 patients in Delhi have been found to contain Omicron sub-variants, according to researchers at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS). 

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (FOX 2) - Grand Rapids police identified the officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop earlier this month.Officer Christopher Schurr shot 26-year-old Lyoya in the back of the head on April 4. Police released video of the encounter between Schurr and Lyoya but hadn't named the officer because he wasn't charged.

Selling Sunset stars Christine Quinn and Amanza Smith both tested positive for COVID-19 before the fifth season reunion taping at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles on Sunday.And while the 45-year-old brunette did her own make-up and hair so she could join the cast of the No. 1 Netflix hit show remotely, the 33-year-old blonde 'wasn't feeling well enough to do it.'Christine's rep confirmed her diagnosis to TMZ on Monday: 'She tested positive for COVID on Saturday and out of an abundance of caution, she did not attend the reunion.' Health update: Selling Sunset stars Christine Quinn (L) and Amanza Smith (R) both tested positive for COVID-19 before the fifth season reunion taping at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles on SundayIt's Quinn's second time coming down with it after claiming to Goss Chats in 2020 that she was sick with the coronavirus during her December 2019 wedding ceremony.Season five premiered last Friday and the streaming giant just unveiled the first image of Queer Eye's Tan France moderating the reunion, which is scheduled to air on May 6.

TORONTO, ON - APRIL 23: Joel Embiid #21 of the Philadelphia 76ers looks on in the second half of Game Four of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena on April 23, 2022 in Toronto, Canada. NOTE TO USER: User PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia center Joel Embiid has been fined $15,000 for criticizing the officiating in Game 4 of the 76ers' first-round playoff series against Toronto, the NBA announced Monday.Embiid made his remarks to reporters after a 110-102 loss on Saturday at Scotiabank Arena.For the first time in the series, the Raptors shot more free throws than the 76ers.

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2022/01/11: Makeshift memorial on the site of senseless killing of 19-years old woman during robbery at Burger King in East Harlem. Kristal Bayron-Nieves was shot during a hold-up while working an overnight shift.