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Once booming, the Sri Lankan tourism sector, which has seen its worst days since 2019 because of Easter Bombings and Covid-19 lockdowns, has now become collateral damage of the war in faraway Europe.

Western leaders had expressed horror Friday after the Zaporizhzhia plant in southern Ukraine was attacked with shell fire and taken over by invading Russian forces.

The students highlighted in the video that there are at least 500 students stuck in Sumy.

'We agreed to keep the negotiations going,' the Russian delegation head, Vladimir Medinsky said.

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, called Sunday for an end to fighting.

European Union also agreed to impose harder sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine and closed its airspace to Russian aircraft.

A large number of those escaping to neighbouring countries have crossed over into Poland, where the authorities have counted some 156,000 crossing since the invasion started early Thursday.

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded by saying that relations have reached a point from where there is no return

In the statement, the regulator also accused Facebook of 23 similar instances of "censorship" since October 2020.

The United States has accused Putin of massing more than 150,000 troops near Ukraine's borders in preparation for what it fears could be a full-scale invasion.

A patient standing on a hospital balcony was killed by a stray bullet fired by security forces in Sudan on Sunday, medics said, as protesters pursued a fourmonth campaign against military rule.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to set out plans next week to remove selfisolation requirements for people infected with COVID19, his office said on Saturday.

India has already supplied four shipments of medical assistance to Afghanistan, consisting 5,00,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine and essential life-saving medicines.

Russia's Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine within days, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday after separatists backed by Moscow told civilians to leave breakaway regions on buses, a move the West fears is part of a pretext for an attack.

Cuba is struggling to reawaken its tourism industry after months of pandemicinduced slumber as travelers stay away, threatening to derail the government's plan to haul the economy out of a deepening crisis.

Gold retreated slightly from the key $1,900perounce level on Friday as hopes for U.S.Russia talks brought some calm to wider markets, but lingering concerns over Ukraine kept bullion on track for a third straight weekly gain.