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Francis Harrison, former BBC foreign correspondent whose book of accounts of survivors from Sri Lankas civil war is to be published this summer, says in an article in the Dawn, that there are "signs that the international community is gearing up for action to hold Sri Lanka accountable
- Reality check for doping in sport (Category: Technology)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- How the Amazon rainforest is being saved (Category: Technology)
A UN special envoy arrived Friday for talks with the new administration in the Maldives, as former president Mohamed Nasheed called for fresh elections after being ousted in what he called a coup d'etat, AFP reported. Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco reached the capital Male early Friday and was due to hold talks with new president Mohamed Waheed. “There will be a meetin...
- Nasheed demands election, warns of protests (Category: Business)
- Nasheed Won’t Seek Asylum (Category: Breaking News)
- Arrest warrant issued for M. Nasheed ! President inquires about Nasheed’s safety (Category: Breaking News)
- New president denies Maldives coup (Category: Breaking News)
During a meeting with the media the ousted Maldivian President said he will not consider leaving the country and would fight for a return to power, the BBC reported. Further a video clip on the BBC website captures President Nasheed commenting that should he leave the "
- First poppy flower (Category: Business)
- People’s Bank celebrates International Migrants Day (Category: Business)
- Ananda OBA donates ‘Ananda College four’ for rowing crew (Category: Business)
- Cory Bernardi's wife elected to council (Category: South Australia)
Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed has said that he was forced to resign “at gunpoint” by police and army officers in a coup, says a media report. “Yes, I was forced to resign at gunpoint,” Nasheed has told reporters. “There were guns all around me and they told me they wouldn’t hesitate to use them if I ...
- Another one of the President’s foreign allies removed (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives president was 'forced at gunpoint to resign' (Category: Breaking News)
- President’s support will be sought again if necessary – Maldivian President (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldivian President Credits Sri Lankan Army for defeating a ruthless terrorist orgarnisation (Category: Breaking News)
BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in the South, a report in a Sinhala website said.
BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka`s Yala N..
Feb 08, Colombo: BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in the South, a report in a Sinhala website said.
(Srilankamirror) - President of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed has resigned today (Feb. 07) following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge, the Associated Press reports. Nasheed fell out of public favor after he ordered the military to arrest Abdulla Mohamed, the chief judge of the Criminal Court.’ In a most recent development, a group of mutinyin...
- Maldives’ vice president takes oath (Category: Breaking News)
- New president denies Maldives coup (Category: Breaking News)
- Mohamed Nasheed injured in clash (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-Maldives leader not to seek asylum in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The extrajudicial killing of civilians, surrendering soldiers and dissident journalists under the direction of the Sri Lankan government has been alleged by a former general in the Army who was extremely well-placed to comment on military activity during the island nation’s bloody civil war. The source, whose name is withheld for reasons of safety, had high-level ...
- Sri Lankan govt gave orders to commit war crimes, new evidence shows — The International (Category: Breaking News)
- Time for a reality check on the Sri Lankan civil war (Category: Breaking News)
- Plaintiffs file opposition to suggestion of immunity in war crimes case against Rajapakse (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The 200 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees stranded in West Africa are enduring miserable conditions in Togo, the BBC reported. They say they are living on meagre rations and face the prospect of imminent deportation home. The refugees say they are being detained by the army in an open sports stadium
- Bound for Canada, stranded in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Smugglers dump Canada-bound Tamils in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- We are cleaning the toilets : Tamil refugees in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Togo authorities holding 150 Sri Lanka refugees (Category: Breaking News)
In a human smuggling operation gone sour, around 200 Sri Lankan refugee claimants hoping to come to Canada are stranded in West Africa, the BBC reported The BBC reports that 200 Sri Lankans travelled through India and Ethiopia before a smuggler abandoned them in Togo instead
- Expert body to reform the law (Category: South Australia)
- Desal firms in $9m suit strife (Category: South Australia)
- Matara MC Opp. leader leaves meeting in protest (Category: Breaking News)
- First poppy flower (Category: Business)
Two hundred Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka are stranded in West Africa, BBC reports, after the human smuggling ring they hired to bring them to Canada marooned them in Togo. The BBC says the contingent travelled by ship from Sri Lanka to India, then on to Ethiopia before flying to Togo
- Bound for Canada, stranded in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- 200 Sri Lankan refugees stranded in West Africa (Category: Breaking News)
- Smugglers dump Canada-bound Tamils in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Togo authorities holding 150 Sri Lanka refugees (Category: Breaking News)
Some two hundred Sri lankan refugees stranded in the tiny West African state of Togo have told the BBC that they fear for their life if they are deported back to their country. .
Stranded refugees from Sri Lanka, in the tiny West African state of Togo have told the BBC that they fear for their life if they are deported .
“Undercover Princes”: If the title makes you think of dashing Hohenzollerns trading secrets in romantic locales, think again. For one thing, the reality dating series of this title, beginning on Tuesday on TLC, is set not in Venice or Gstaad or even London but in the chip shops and seaside pubs of Brighton, England, which looks ...
- Patient SOS for doctor service (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Newlywed Prince William back at work (Category: AU, New South Wales)
- Bypass needs repairs already (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Bypass works peaceful (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
News Pre-premiere of ‘Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile’ and panel debate The Fritt Ord Foundation invites the public to a debate and film screening of Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile on Thursday 9 February 2012, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Vika Cinema (Vika 2) in Oslo. There will be ...
- New film tells story of Sri Lankan journalists forced into exile (Category: Breaking News)
- Silenced Voices speak – the real Sri Lanka story (Category: Breaking News)
- Movie on Sri Lankan journalists in exile (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Unpunished Crimes (Category: Breaking News)
BBC WS speak to Shehan Karunatilaka whose debut novel set in Cricket-mad Sri Lanka won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
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- Road mishaps kill 223 schoolchildren in 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia slow Sri Lanka charge (Category: Breaking News)
- India Take On Sri Lanka In Asia Cup Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Thalaimannar IDPs 'made refugees again' (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - The US will cut almost 100,000 troops, the BBC reports.
A Palestinian doctor whose three daughters were killed in Israeli shelling three years ago has been speaking to the BBC about the charity he has created in their memory.
Sri Lanka has reportedly ordered 161 foreign Muslim preachers to leave the country for flouting visa regulations. A senior immigration official was quoted as saying that the clerics had no right to preach in mosques because they had arrived on tourist visas, BBC reports. .
It’s December 2010, and two young law students are sitting for their exam. The one is in a hall full of students, who are being monitored closely by the examiner to make sure they’re following the rules: no phones, no electronic devices, no cheating. The other, meanwhile is taken to a private air conditioned room with a computer ...
- Sri Lanka Law college has passed Mr. Namal Rajapakse, failed me (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal was provided with A/C room for exam because there wasnt enough room in the exam Hall L... (Category: Breaking News)
- Law student who opposed Namal Rajapaksha abducted in white Van: released later in dead of night (Category: Breaking News)
- President cast his vallot (Category: Breaking News)
Jaffna Commander Says Abduction Claims Baseless By Easwaran Rutnam The Army yesterday slammed Sarath Fonseka after he had alleged that the military was behind a spate of abductions in the north. Jaffna Security Forces Commander Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe told The Sunday Leader that Fonseka was making baseless allegations while serving a prison sentence on ...
- Jaffna security tightened (Category: Breaking News)
- Jaffna district Army Commander informed Australian High Commissioner "Military gradually reducin... (Category: Breaking News)
- "Army Will Not Acquire Civilians' Lands" - Jaffna Commander (Category: Breaking News)
- "Army Will Not Acquire Civilians' Lands" - Jaffna Commander (Category: Breaking News)
An Indian school teacher has got the shock of his life when he has found his bank account showing a balance of US$ 9.8 billion, when it actually should have been just US$ 200, says a media report. Parijat Saha has initially found this when he has checked his bank balance via online. Later on he has ...
- US$1.5 bln loan from China to prop up ailing Lankan economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s July export earnings declines by 17.4% (Category: Breaking News)
- Commercial Bank Launches Software Escrow Services (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka keeps its key policy rates unchanged, expects a dampening effect on credit growth (Category: Breaking News)
I go to the trouble of writing to the Editor of The Sunday Leader because an aspect of Tissaranee Gunasekara’s journalism I have long admired has been her concern with exactitude. I am afraid, however, that her assertion that “the GMOA with 40 other institutions connected to the medical professions wrote to the President… requesting ...
- Kamala Harris' VP win is huge for HBCUs, Tougaloo president says (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Nothing is closer to the law of the jungle than a system of distorted laws and procedures” Haaretz Editorial (2.1.2012) President Rajapaksa won the Eelam War, with the help of countless others (including the imprisoned Gen. Fonseka). In fairytales, the hero who saves a country from some deadly peril is rewarded with ...
- Rajapaksas have rendered the judiciary as subservient as the armed forces or the police (Category: Breaking News)
- UPFA MP Says Hakeem Will Lose (Category: Breaking News)
- We will create an education system that protects dignity of labour – President (Category: Breaking News)
- We will create an education system that protects dignity of labour – President (Category: Breaking News)
Below is an interview with Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleke published in the French Diplomatic Review – La Lettre Diplomatique (The Diplomatic Letter) Two years after the end of a three decades conflict, the lifting of the emergency rule in late August 2011 confirmed the beginning of a new era for Sri Lanka. With the recent discovery of ...
- France assures assistance to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt (Category: Breaking News)
- French President Emmanuel Macron pledges strong support for debt restructuring in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- France continues support for Sri Lanka’s renewable energy plans (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has denied the Sri Lankan government was under pressure from India to devolve more powers to the provinces. "No no no no, there was no pressure. Neither India nor other country can dictate how our country is governed," he has said. Mr. de Silva, who is heading the SLFP delegation to talks with the TNA, was responding to a question...
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP leadership raises Sajith group’s absence at protest (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ screening from Jan. 21 (Category: Breaking News)
The head of a UK charity that sent a consignment of wheelchairs to Sri Lanka has condemned the decision to impose customs duties of over $8,000 (£5,180), the BBC reported. Peter Thompson, of the Yorkshire-based PhysioNet charity, said the shipment for Tamil war victims
- UK charity condemns 'wheelchair tax' by Lankan authorities (Category: Breaking News)
- Salman to help rehabilitate child soldiers in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Chicken and eggs imported to Sri Lanka to be distributed tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government distributes four million imported eggs among Lak Sathosa outlets (Category: Breaking News)
“…by clever and persevering use of propaganda, even heaven can be represented as hell to the people, and conversely the most wretched life as paradise”. Hitler (Mein Kampf) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Impunity is illimitable. If the law was allowed to take its normal course after the Kolonnawa mini-war, the Christmas Eve murder of a ...
- Strong parliament vital to accelerate development (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourist activities not affecting fishing industry Basil (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreigner killing - three arrested, wanted politician still at large (Category: Breaking News)
- New Year parties in hotels in Sri Lankas Southern city of Tangalle cancelled (Category: Breaking News)
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