Topic: Transport — Neutral reports only
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[2025-12-03 14:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Kaduwela–Battaramulla road, which had been temporarily closed due to flooding, was reopened to traffic this morning, police said.
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[2025-12-03 08:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens — which heat coal to produce a fuel called coke — had broken off and tumbled to the ground.
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[2025-12-03 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The cyclonic disaster claimed a heavy toll of lives and destruction to property, including the collapse of bridges, damage to culverts, and other serious damage caused to infrastructure and both public and private property. Most people were caught off their guard, as the cyclone descended without warning. Hence, the need for the authorities to emphasise the need for disaster preparedness to the public.
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[2025-12-03 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Hundreds of people remain missing after devastating heavy rainfall and catastrophic mudslides ravaged the country in what authorities are calling the deadliest natural disaster the nation has faced in years. The true scale of the destruction in the worst-affected central region was gradually emerging on Sunday as emergency relief workers worked tirelessly to clear roads obstructed by fallen trees, debris, and massive mudslides that have cut off entire communities from vital aid and communication.
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[2025-12-03 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Many areas of Sri Lanka were devastated by Cyclone ‘Ditwah’. The violent wind and relentless rain caused major flooding, provoking landslides. Entire villages were cut off and major towns went under the raging waters. Main roads and highways became inaccessible. Thousands of citizens were rendered homeless by the landslides and floods which preyed on them like a frensied predator.
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[2025-12-03 00:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: India’s aviation regulator said it was investigating the carrier after it operated eight flights without a valid airworthiness certificate
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[2025-12-02 16:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Transport Department closed Gage Street lane to traffic at 8.44am on Tuesday following incident, before reopening it at 11.54am
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[2025-12-02 15:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Some 20 tankers registered in the microstate allegedly smuggled Russian and Iranian fuel between 2024 and 2025 amid lax oversight
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[2025-12-02 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The city risks becoming marginalised if it does not improve its connectivity with the Greater Bay Area and mainland high-speed rail networks
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[2025-12-02 06:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Government has decided to initiate a medium – and long-term recovery programme, integrating both the public and private sectors, to mobilise resources for rebuilding the country’s essential infrastructure such as highways and irrigation systems damaged by the recent disaster.
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[2025-12-02 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The passengers first noticed the water near the Kala Oya bridge. The Puttalam–Anuradhapura road had dipped under the river after overnight rain, and the bus from Pulmude slowed as the driver stepped out to check the submerged stretch. Inside, people shifted bags, checked their phones and waited for a signal to move.
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[2025-12-02 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sampath Bank PLC recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DIMO at the Bank’s Head Office, unveiling an exclusive vehicle financing scheme designed to enhance the ownership experience for DIMO customers.
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[2025-12-02 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: All of us want safe journeys. No one wishes to be injured or lose their life while travelling on public transport. No one sets out expecting to end up in a valley or ravine instead of their destination. Yet, tragically, many innocent passengers have done just that—plunging into valleys or mountain passes where their trips should have ended safely.
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[2025-12-02 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: State-owned carmaker invests US$31.8 million to take a 50 per cent stake in Changan Tianshu Intelligent Robotics Technology
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[2025-12-01 23:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Germany has been warned for years that it risks becoming an "industrial museum" unless it embraces radical modernization — and that includes artificial intelligence (AI).
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[2025-12-01 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lanka Police have announced a special grace period for drivers who were unable to renew their driving licenses due to the ongoing adverse weather and natural disaster conditions across the island.
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[2025-12-01 21:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: When Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and their two cabinets meet in Berlin for intergovernmental consultations on Monday, the intention is that talks will focus above all on present-day problems and future solutions, especially in relation to Russia's war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, migration, security and infrastructure.
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[2025-12-01 21:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The government has decided to initiate a medium and long term recovery programme, integrating both the public and private sectors, to mobilize resources for rebuilding the country’s essential infrastructure such as highways and irrigation systems damaged by the recent disaster.
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[2025-12-01 20:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Badulla–Passara main road has been reopened to traffic to allow essential services to reach communities affected by recent landslides. Several sections of the road had been blocked, preventing government officials, the military, and police from accessing displaced residents.
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[2025-12-01 16:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ella-Wellawaya road has been fully reopened for traffic, according to Badulla District Secretary Panduka Sri Prabath Abeywardena.
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[2025-12-01 15:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Three people have tragically lost their lives in separate road accidents across the country.
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[2025-12-01 15:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Booking.com’s ‘Travel Predictions 2026’ survey also finds Hongkongers are seeking nature, thinking of their skin and open to robot help
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[2025-12-01 06:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB), in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the European Union (EU), successfully concluded the Pitching Event for the second batch of SMEs under the ExpoScaleUp program. Supported under the European Union’s regional initiative ‘Accelerating Climate Smart and Inclusive Infrastructure in South Asia (ACSIIS)’ as part of the EU Global Gateway Strategy, this milestone event is a key component of the Sri Lanka Export Excellence Initiative (SLEEI) 2025.
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[2025-12-01 06:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The National Transport Commission (NTC) has issued a special notice instructing private bus owners, drivers and conductors to strictly follow the directions of Police officers on duty when approaching police barricades or roadblocks set up due to adverse weather conditions.
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[2025-12-01 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: FERNANDO – DONALD – Retired Post Master. Beloved husband of Amali, loving father of Rohitha and Dushanthi, loving father-in-law of Sandhya, grandfather to Gayan, Sanuda and Hiruni, cherished brother to Tina and the late Enid, Ellen, Violet, Freda, Reggie, Una, beloved son of the late Mr and Mrs George Fernando, beloved son-in-law of Mr and Mrs Cyril Fernando, passed away peacefully.
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[2025-12-01 00:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Department of Motor Traffic (DMT) has announced that several key driving licence services will remain suspended tomorrow (Monday, 1 December 2025) due to ongoing technical issues caused by the recent adverse weather conditions.
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[2025-11-30 21:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A landslide has damaged a 100-meter section of the Talawakelle-Thawalantenna-Kotmale road in the Kotmale Paluwatte area, obstructing access for relief teams to the region.
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[2025-11-30 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has confirmed that fuel prices will remain unchanged throughout December 2025.
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[2025-11-30 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Thousands of protesters marched in the Philippines on Sunday, demanding that the government take strong action against officials involved in a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure scandal.
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[2025-11-30 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Starlink has announced that it will offer free connectivity to all new and existing users in disaster-affected regions of Indonesia and Sri Lanka, where devastating flooding linked to Cyclone Ditwah has caused rising death tolls and severe infrastructure damage.
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[2025-11-30 19:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Road Development Authority (RDA) has taken steps to temporarily close the Colombo-Kandy main road near Yakkala Ayurveda.
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[2025-11-30 14:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Several access roads to Bandaranaike International Airport have been affected by flooding due to the ongoing emergency situation.
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[2025-11-29 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: In 2023, a 15- and a 17-year-old plotted to attack a Christmas market in Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia). In online chats, the two supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS), considered a terrorist organization by German domestic intelligence, plotted to kill as many people as possible by driving a truck into the crowd of revellers.
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[2025-11-29 16:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lankan Navy has successfully rescued 49 individuals who were stranded on a bus swept by floodwaters at the Kala Oya Bridge along the Anuradhapura–Puttalam road. The operation, which began last night, is still ongoing to assist a few remaining individuals affected.
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[2025-11-29 15:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A landslide reportedly struck Rambadagama in Kotmale during the night of November 27 and the early hours of November 28. Residents have revealed that the central part of Rambadagama village, located between the Nuwara Eliya–Pudalu Oya roads, collapsed during the incident.
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[2025-11-29 14:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The passengers of the bus swept by floodwaters on the Kala Oya bridge along the Anuradhapura–Puttalam road are currently sheltering on the roof of a nearby house, as rescue operations continue.
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[2025-11-29 07:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka has woken this week to a lesson no textbook had scheduled. Cyclone Ditwah trespassed the island with the blunt certainty of nature reclaiming its authority. Within hours, the winds felled power lines, landslides swallowed roads, and the Colombo Stock Exchange had to shut its doorsat midday yesterday. Now, this is an unusual capitulation for an institution built on the promise of predictability.
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[2025-11-29 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lanka Navy relief teams evacuated 37 individuals trapped by a landslide in the Unuwinna area of Maoya – Kosgalanda, Hanguranketha on Thursday (November 27). The collapse of an earth mound had blocked the only road to the Unuwinna village in Maoya, stranding 17 families. The Navy relief team, assisted by local residents, safely guided all individuals, including 18 children, to secure locations.
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[2025-11-29 06:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The road from Jaffna city thins into quiet lanes where life moves at its own pace. Three kilometres from the centre, I checked into The Thinnai, a place that borrows its name from the open verandah found in traditional Jaffna homes. That verandah idea—conversation, rest and shared time—set the tone for what unfolded.
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[2025-11-29 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Андрей Бабиш, лидер победившего на парламентских выборах в Чехии правопопулистского движения "Акция недовольных граждан" (ANO), 26 ноября посетил Пражский град, чтобы представить президенту Петру Павелу список кандидатов на министерские посты в своем будущем правительстве. В их числе и Филип Турек, выдвинутый на пост министра окружающей среды крайне правой партией евроскептиков "Автомобилисты за себя" (AUTO), одной из двух коалиционных партнеров ANO.
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[2025-11-29 01:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to secure former lawmaker Zaldy Co‘s air assets believed to be in Malaysia and Singapore.
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[2025-11-28 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Num comunicado do Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Angola manifesta repúdio e condena o golpe "perpetrado pelo auto-proclamado Alto Comando Militar para a Restauração da Segurança Nacional e Ordem Pública do Estado", pedindo respeito pelos direitos humanos.
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[2025-11-28 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The National Transport Commission (NTC), together with bus owners, has issued a special advisory to all operators providing public passenger transport services, urging heightened caution amid the prevailing adverse weather conditions across the island.
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[2025-11-28 19:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A tragic landslide in Nawalapitiya claimed the lives of three members of the same family today (28), after their home on Old Railway Yard Road was buried under mud and debris.
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[2025-11-28 17:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2025-11-28 17:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Several areas in Colombo have been affected by the ongoing adverse weather, with reports of fallen trees and flooding blocking key roads, according to the Police Media Division.
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[2025-11-28 16:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A bus carrying 70 passengers has been stranded on the Kalawewa Bridge along the Puttalam Road for over an hour and a half, authorities reported.
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[2025-11-28 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A portion of the Colombo-Kandy main road between the 88 km and 89 km markers in Meepitiya, Kegalle has been temporarily closed due to an increased risk of landslides.
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[2025-11-28 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The fact that even after 16 years since the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka, Tamil diasporas in Europe and North America have remained politically active. Last week there were recurring signs of renewed public visibility of so-called Eelam lobbies in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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[2025-11-28 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: BYD, together with its sole authorised distributor John Keells CG Auto (JKCG Auto), announced the official launch of the all-new BYD ATTO 1 and BYD ATTO 2 in Sri Lanka.
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