Sri Lanka makes travel easier for tourists, scraps visa fees and restores online applications

Sri Lanka has restored an online visa application platform to encourage tourism after its top court suspended a controversial multimillion-dollar deal that outsourced visa processing to a foreign consortium. The government…

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This article is more than 1 month old Anti-immigration mood sweeping EU threatens its new asylum strategy

In 2015, when more than 1.3 million people headed to Europe, mostly fleeing a brutal war in Syria, the response of Germany’s then chancellor, Angela Merkel, was to say “Wir schaffen…

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