Promises not kept: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (left) and Leader of the Opposition R. Sampanthan.
By Meera Srinivasan
The Hindu: After two years of engaging the Sri Lankan Government on reconciliation and constitutional reform, the country’s Tamil polity seems to be losing patience, if Leader of the Opposition R. Sampanthan’s address in Parliament is any indication.
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The Department of Meteorology has issued a weather alert, warning that extreme heat can be expected in parts of the island tomorrow (20).
Oil slipped on Friday after prices spiked earlier on reports that Israel had attacked Iran as market fears of a major escalation to hostilities in the Mideast appeared to ease.
State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe says that the government is confident of reaching resolution with commercial creditors and the private bondholders which will enable Sri Lanka to be a debt sustainable country, as the engagements with them are underway.
The 19-year-old Sri Lankan national charged in the mass killing of a newcomer family in Ottawa has no plan to seek bail, his lawyer says.
Kenya s defence chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area of the country, President William Ruto said.
Sri Lanka has participated in the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) in Washington DC, which brings together debtor countries and creditors, in a bid to build greater common understanding among key stakeholders on debt sustainability, debt restructuring challenges and ways to address them.
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