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    New US Ambassador to SL, Maldives

    US President Barack Obama announced the nomination of foreign service diplomat Michele Sison as the new Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, Sison is currently Assistant Chief of Mission for Law...
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    Lankan to Hollywood ?

    Sri Lankan Model-turned-actress Jacqueline Fernandez, is all set to make her foray into Hollywood. Jacqueline Fernandez has been approached for ‘Definition of Fear’, a project that will be the first movie for producer James Simpson as well. “I have been approached for that. Talks are on...
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    SL to shut some embassies in Europe

    Less than a week after the West voted against Sri Lanka at a UN human rights meet, Colombo has decided to close some of its embassies in Europe. The external affairs ministry said Tuesday that the embassies in Europe that were not serving any purpose in winning support for Sri Lanka's national...
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    Dr. Peiris meeting Hillary on May 18

    U.S. state department says the secretary of state Hillary Clinton will meet Sri Lankan external affairs minister Dr. G. L. Peiris on May 18 in Washington, D.C.
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    US hopes SL will implement LLRC

    U.S. state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says they hope the SL government will implement the LLRC recommendations. A UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council) resolution also called on SL to implement the LLRC recommendations. Sri Lanka said yesterday they will not abide by the...
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    400 Gbps on 1 channel

    German internet service provider Deutsche Telekom (DT) say they reached a data transmission milestone of 400Gbps. The real-world speed was achieved over a single optical fiber channel over a 734km (456mi) distance between Berlin and Hannover and back again. With 48 channels available in the...
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    UK urge LLRC implementation, welcomes UNHRC vote

    Speaking today, UK Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne said: “...I also welcome the outcome of the vote on the Sri Lanka resolution. This underlines the importance that governments across the world attach to supporting lasting peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka. We urge the Sri Lankan...
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    SL will not abide by UNHRC resolution: Dr. Peiris

    Sri Lanka on Monday made it clear that it will not abide by the UNHRC resolution that censured it over its human rights record and said it would only implement feasible recommendations of its own panel that probed the three-decade-long bloody civil war. "We had taken a decision not to...
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    Govt. has misled people : UNP

    UNP Parliamentarian Harin Fernando speaking at a press conference at the office of the Leader of Opposition today (26) said that the government is trying to go for a snap election as it has now realized that before the next six months their true face will be blared to the people after...
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    SL will not fully implement own war report

    Sri Lanka will not implement all proposals from its civil war commission because the panel went beyond its mandate, a government minister said Monday after a U.N. rights council called for the report's implementation. The commission's report dismissed allegations that government troops...
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    Navy denies another alleged attack on Indian fishermen

    Sri Lanka Navy has denied the Indian media reports that its personnel have been engaged in yet another attack on Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu. Indian media reported that six fishermen from Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam district who set out to sea on March 20 have come under the latest...
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    Dr. Peiris condems Silva's statement

    External Affairs Minister G.L Peiris yesterday said he could not condone statements made by a government Minister who claimed that he would clamp down on journalists and human rights activists who had travelled to Geneva. “It is wrong and there is no defense of it. I cannot condone a...
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    Gotabaya: 1600 Tamils to be recruited to the Police

    Some 1600 Tamils are to be recruited to the Police Force working in the North East, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. During a meeting with Ambassador Yasushi Akashi, Japan’s Special Representative to Sri Lanka in Tokyo, Mr. Rajapaksa said that ‘initiatives have been taken to...
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    Tissa: Leave UN if you ...

    Secretary of the UNP MP Tissa Attanayake said that if the government is not willing to be bound by the UN it should resign as a member state. “ As a country that has been a part of the United Nations for decades and having accepted the Human Rights charter of the United Nations, if this...
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    SL v US ? Sajin blocks lecture by US official

    The Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute, named after one of the country's illustrious Foreign Ministers, periodically arranges public lectures beneficial not only to the academia and officials but also students of foreign affairs. The one due on Wednesday March 28 was to be from Michael J...
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    UNP: People will suffer

    The main opposition UNP has warned that it is the people who will ultimately suffer if the Government fails to act in accordance with the US backed Resolution on Sri Lanka. Acting External Affairs Minister, D. E. W. Gunasekera, had said in Parliament on Friday that the government did not...
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    Indian PM writes to President Rajapaksa

    The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has written to President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka on the resolution in the UN Human Rights Council. The text of the Prime Minister's letter to the President of Sri Lanka is as follows: "Thank you for your...
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    TNA: Indian vote due to broken promises

    Leader of the Tamil National Alliaance, Rajavarothiam Sampanthan said that India’s crucial vote during Thursday’s United Nations Human Rights Commission was a result of broken promises by Sri Lanka, to the regional giant. “I think India’s vote was largely influenced by the failure of the...
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    Mervyn Silva: Police investigating

    A Sri Lankan cabinet minister has threatened violence against journalists and human rights activists who he says have been opposing the government. Mervyn Silva also admitted forcing a journalist to flee two years ago. Poddala Jayantha, who fled the country in late 2009 after being...

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