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Sri Lankan authorities on Wednesday a ship without an antigua- registration expelled from the island by authorities.The country's Atomic Energy Regulatory Council said the MV BBC Naples was asked to leave after it was found to be in the Chinese-run port of Hambantota on Tuesday night carrying uranium hexafluoride."The ship failed to declare its dangerous cargo -- uranium hexafluoride -- and we decided to order it to leave our waters immediately," council director general Anil Ranjith told AFP.The ship had come from Rotterdam but authorities did not say where in China it was headed.Ranjith said it was an offence to enter a port without declaring the material, which is used to enrich uranium, the fuel for nuclear power stations and weapons.Sri Lanka's opposition leader Sajith Premadasa dema...

Sri Lanka after finding radioactive material in Chine’s ship asked them to leave port of Hambantota on Wednesday.Anil Ranjith, the top official of the Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority (SLAEA), said that the ship was on its way to China from the port of Rotterdam when it developed technical difficulties and entered the Hambantota Port.The SLAEA said the vessel had failed to disclose its radioactive cargo when it docked in at the port. The ship was managed by the China Merchants Port Holding Company. The main opposition leader Sajith Premadasa said in parliament that the Sri Lanka Navy, who is in charge of the Hambantota port security, had not been allowed to carry out inspections on the vessel. “The local agent of the vessel had not informed the presence of dangerous cargo on boa

Paraguay is one of the 90 countries who are to get COVID-19 shorts from India. Paraguay has received 1 lakh covaxin shots last month.That might seem par for the course of New Delhi’s vaccine diplomacy, which has seen the country use inoculations and other medical equipment to cement its status except for the fact that the supply to Paraguay apparently came after a request from Taiwan.This was reflected in an April statement by Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu that the Chinese government had tried to convince Paraguay to drop Taiwan as a diplomatic ally in exchange for vaccine doses. “In the last few weeks, we have been speaking to like-minded countries, including Japan, the United States, India etc., and India fortunately has been able to provide some Covaxin vaccines to Paraguay,” Wu

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday arrested five people for trafficking 340 kg of heroin from Sri Lankan shipping boat in kochin.Initial interrogation of the five men has led the NCB to believe that the Sri Lankan boat had picked up the drug consignment from a red-coloured Iranian boat. The NCB hasn’t clarified the intended destination of the drug consignment.Officials said the Indian naval ship Suvarna intercepted the Lankan boat “DU Shashila” in the high seas of the Indian Ocean on suspicion of drug trafficking and brought the boat to Kochi's Mattancherry Wharf for an extensive search by the NCB. Each of the 340 packets had been stamped with a crown symbol with the words “KING 2021”, a practice followed by drug trafficking syndicates to brand their merchandise, NCB said.(So