A US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka’s navy said on Wednesday it recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people.

Defence secretary confirms strike on Iris Dena in first US attack on Iranian forces outside Middle East during conflict

Sri Lanka has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19 amid warnings from doctors that frontline health workers should be quickly inoculated to prevent the medical system from collapsing.