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    President in South Korea

    Sri Lankan president Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa is currently visiting South Korea. President Rajapaksa with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
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    UNHRC: ACF and SPEAK to submit report

    Action Against Hunger (ACF) and human rights initiative SPEAK will submit a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) condemning the obstructionism and failures of the Sri Lankan authorities in advance of the HRC’s review of Sri Lanka’s human rights practices in October 2012...
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    13 plus ? UNP asks Govt. to make clear statement

    Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) says the government needs to make a clear statement about its stance on the 13th Amendment and the claim about going beyond the 13th Amendment. UNP parliamentarian Harin Fernando said President Mahinda Rajapaksa has once again...
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    Rupee hits new record low

    Sri Lanka's rupee fell to a record 132.30 against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday. Dealers said they expect the rupee to go down further.
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    SL Muslims decry radical Buddhist mosque attack

    The main umbrella group of Sri Lankan Muslims says radical Buddhists are trying to damage peaceful co-existence between the country's main ethnic communities. The statement came three days after hardline Buddhists tried to storm a mosque, after which the government said it would be...
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    Govt violates UN Convention-JVP

    Internally Displaced people (IDPs) who were originally living in the Mullathivu Coast and were engaged in fisheries as a livelihood have been resettled in an inland village Thimbili in the same district by violating the UN Convention on the status of refugees, JVP charged today. JVP...
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    Samsung Galaxy S3 ?

    3Ei61wWOr4w Official launch May 3 2012
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    Moulana objects to relocating dambulla mosque

    Governor of the Western Province, Alavi Moulana today expressed his objection towards the relocating of the mosque in Dambulla, following a protest by Buddhist monks and lay supporters last Friday. Moulana said he had not attended the discussion held by Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne...
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    Teen shot dead

    A sixteen year old boy was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen at Uragasmanhandiya, Elpitiya Road today, Police said. The assailants are at large and investigations are on to arrest them, police added. The body of the youth had been placed at the Uragasmanhandiya Hospital morgue. TN
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    Anuradha in Olympics

    A Sri Lankan marathon runner has qualified in London to represent the country at 2012 London Olympics. Anuradha Indrajith Cooray, the first ever Sri Lankan to compete in London Marathon, qualified as he clocked two hours 17 minutes and 50 seconds, just 10...
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    Ready to attack Iran says top Israeli general

    Israel's military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has said the army is prepared to launch an attack on Iran' s nuclear facilities once a government decision to that end is made. "In principle, we are ready for action. The State of Israel thinks that a nuclear-armed Iran is a very bad thing that...
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    Politicians invade forests

    Environmentalists allege that nearly 20,000 acres of protected forest land located inside the Ruhunu National Park in Buttala has been encroached, and claim that the Department of Forest Conservation (DFC) continues to turn a blind eye to the entire episode. According to the Environment...
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    vehicle prices to go up

    Sri Lanka's Associated Motor Ways (AMW) Company says that the prices of motor vehicles will further go up with the government's decision to shift disembarkation of motor vehicles to Hambantota from May 31. A company spokesman said the car carriers will be used to transport motor vehicles...
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    Mosque closed & to be relocated

    A decision was made to relocate the mosque in Dambulla following discussions with several Muslim political and religious leaders, Media Secretary to the Prime Minister’s office, Sisira Wijesinghe told Ceylon Today Online. “Following discussions with several Muslim political figures in...
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    Swiss NGO Car attacked

    A vehicle belonging to a local officer of the Switzerland demining NGO in Vavuniya was extensively damaged following a petrol bomb attack last night, police said. The vehicle had been parked at the FSD Technical consultant officer’s home in Vavuniya at the time of the incident.
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    Jehan arrested

    Former national cricketer Jehan Mubarak has been taken into custody following a fatal accident that killed one person at Maikkulam in Chillaw on the Chillaw-Colombo main road today, police said. DM
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    SAITM hospital : no approval granted

    The Ministry of Health today said it has not approved the construction of a teaching hospital affiliated to the private medical college in Malabe. The institution has so far made no request regarding building of such a hospital, a spokesman of the Ministry said. Recent reports had claimed...
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    Namal to US with GOSL team

    The Sri Lankan delegation to Washington DC in May, in response to an invitation by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to further engage on reconciliation processes and accountability issues will include External Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, Ministry of External Affairs Monitoring MP Sajin...
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    Muslims unhappy over Dambulla incident

    Western Province Governor Alavi Mowlana has said the attack on the Masjidul Khaira in Dambulla was the work of professional extremists. A group of over 1000 protestors led by Buddhist monks gathered at the mosque on Friday (20) preventing the obligatory Jummah prayers. Protestors threw...
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    iPhone 5 in October

    Rumor has it that Apple's sixth-generation iPhone will have a new "liquid" metal back and will arrive in October. Korea IT News first announced the rumor saying the iPhone will be made of zirconium, titanium, nickel, copper and will have a "surface smooth like liquid," according to Apple...

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