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    Tsunami warning

    8.9 Earthquake Indonesia
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    Earthquake 8.9 - NORTHERN SUMATRA

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    SriLankan cuts meals, flights to europe

    Sri Lanka’s national carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines, has cut down meal services and is scaling down scheduled flights to several European sectors as a cost-cutting measure, a spokesperson from the airline said yesterday. “We have cut down several scheduled flights to Europe, including those...
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    Gunaratnam claims torture

    THE Australian man abducted in Sri Lanka over the weekend has contradicted the claims of the Colombo government, claiming it abducted him, and were it not for Canberra's intervention he would have faced certain death. Premakumar Gunaratnam, a 42-year-old Sri Lankan left wing politician who...
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    Ranil meets Krishna

    Sri Lanka's Leader of Opposition and the main opposition United National Party Ranil Wickremasinghe has met with the India's External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Tuesday and held discussions on the resettlement of the displaced Tamil civilians in the North. Wickremasinghe, who is on a...
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    Ranil: abductions daily routine in SL

    Abductions and disappearances have become a part of daily life in Sri Lanka indicating the breakdown of the law and order in the country, the leader of opposition and United National Party, Ranil Wickremasinghe has said. Wickremasinghe has pointed out that within the last six months 56...
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    Chandrika: India's vote against SL not a ‘let-down'

    The former Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, does not share the view that India's vote against Sri Lanka at the U.N. Human Rights Council was a “let-down” as she feels there must have been “justifiable reasons” for the decision. Ms. Kumaratunga, 66, who ruled the island nation...
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    Clinton, Gemba warn N Korea

    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. would pursue "appropriate action" at the U.N. Security Council if North Korea goes ahead with a long-range rocket launch. She said if North Korea wants a peaceful, better future for its people, it should not...
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    Protest against abductions in London

    A demonstration held in London has called the Sri Lanka government to stop abductions and disappearances. Protesters who gathered in front of the Sri Lankan High commission in London on Tuesday blamed the government for not being able to stop abductions that...
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    Body found in Kirulapone

    An unidentified body was found this morning in a canal in Kirulapone, the Police said. The Police are currently investigating the incident and are looking to ascertain the identity of the body. DM
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    Video: Dimuthu speaks

    JVP dissident group member Dimuthu Attygala, who was reportedly missing along with Kumar Gunaratnam, has turned up at the party office in Madiwela a short while ago. She is to address the media conference shortly, our reporter said. Speaking to the Daily Mirror Waruna Rajapakshe a leading...
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    Australia thanks SL

    While confirming the departure of Frontline Socialist Party’s leader Kumar Gunaratnam’s from Sri Lanka, the Australian authorities today thanked the police and other agencies in Sri Lanka for facilitating his departure. A spokesman for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told...
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    Facebook buys Instagram

    Facebook has acquired photo sharing service Instagram for $1 billion. +
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    Happiest countries in the world

    Happiest countries of the world (155 listed) The first ever World Happiness Report, commissioned for the April 2nd United Nations Conference on Happiness (mandated by the UN General Assembly). The report, published by the Earth Institute and co-edited by the institute’s director, Jeffrey...
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    SL braces for tough times

    Tough economic times lie ahead for Sri Lanka as it grapples with an uncertain global climate and a ballooning trade deficit after posting record growth in 2011, the Central Bank said Monday. The bank has already predicted lower growth of 7.2 percent for the tropical island nation in 2012, down...
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    Chandrika criticise govt policy

    Sri Lanka has a “marvellous opportunity” to heal and reconcile its twin populations after 25 years of civil war, says Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka’s former prime minister and president. Which is why she is more than a little baffled at the slowness with which the Mahinda Rajapaksa...
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    Iran rejects West's 'demands' before elusive talks

    Iran on Sunday rejected demands the West is reportedly to submit at talks due to take place in days, saying it will neither close its Fordo nuclear bunker nor give up higher-level uranium enrichment.Those two demands, outlined by European and US diplomats to The New York Times newspaper...
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    SL concerned over Indian nuke plants

    Concerned over nuclear power plants located in south India, the Sri Lankan government plans to raise the issue before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). According to Sri Lankan minister for Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka, the issue would be raised at the next International...
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    N Korea: rocket ready, nuke test

    (Kim Jong-un, North Korea's supreme leader, Age 28) North Korea has put a long-range rocket into position for a April 12-16 launch. Foreign reporters were shown the launch site in the coastal village of Tongchang-ri in northwestern North Korea. North Korea says it is launching an...
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    New tax on vehicles

    Hot on the heels of increase import duty on motor vehicles, the government is planning to introduce a new tax. It is reliably learnt, according to the new regulation, second-car owners will be subjected to a massive tax. CT

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