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    TNA Seeks India's Help for 'Corrective Steps'

    Tamil National Alliance, an umbrella group of Tamil political parties, today complained to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's about Lankan government's "lethargic" attitude in talks for evolving a political solution to the ethnic crisis and sought India's help for "corrective steps". A...
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    SL Dump Iran ? Oil from Qatar and Oman

    The Sri Lankan government says it is looking for importing crude oil from Qatar and Oman following latest US sanctions against Iran. Petroleum Resources Minister Susil Premajayanth told BBC Sandeshaya that the government was informed by the US of the latest...
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    Iran warns Gulf oil states

    Iran has starkly warned Gulf states not to make up for any shortfall in its oil exports under new US and EU sanctions, adding yet another layer of peril to the international showdown over its nuclear programme. If Arab neighbours compensate for a looming EU ban on Iranian imports, "we would...
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    Emir of Qatar arrives in Sri Lanka

    The Emir (President) of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani arrived in the country today and was welcomed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Bandaranaike International Airport. The visiting Emir was welcoemd with a military guard of honour. The Emir was accompanied by Ministers and...
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    Krishna to SL, devolution tops agenda

    External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna heads to Sri Lanka Monday on a three-day visit that will focus on pushing the reconciliation and devolution process in the island nation. Krishna is expected to hold wide-ranging talks with his Sri Lankan counterpart G.L. Peiris and call on President...
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    TNA dismisses LLRC report and sets the agenda for talks

    Barely two days before the commencement of a crucial round of talks between the Tamil National Alliance, an umbrella group representing Tamil political parties, and the Sri Lankan government, the outfit again called for outside scrutiny of the Eelam War IV. The war concluded in May 2009...
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    US grants immunity to President

    (File Photo: President with US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake) The United States has granted Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa immunity from a law suit filed in a US court against him by the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora. The US filed a...
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    Cold weather : Nuwara Eliya in freeze

    The central district of Nuwara Eliya continues to be wrapped up in cold weather with the temperature dipping down to 7.4 degrees Celsius, an official with the Department of Meteorology said a short while ago. The cold weather in that area was a result of the impending north-east monsoon...
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    Students jeer at SB

    First year students of the Jaffna University had started jeering at Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake recently when he remarked at a function that there were LTTE activists within the university, a students’ right activist said today. Former convener of the Inter University...
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    Sri Lanka & Iran Oil

    Sri Lanka may be a minnow in the oil world, but a near total reliance on Iranian crude imports means it has more reason than most to find a way to avoid being caught in the clutches of U.S. sanctions. The island's only refinery -- the 50,000 barrels-a-day Sapugaskanda refinery -- is almost...
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    2012 Toyota Land Cruiser V8

    2012 Toyota Land Cruiser V8
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    Dakar Rally 2012

    Dakar Rally 2012 ++ add rep if you like the post :D
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    Canada renews Commonwealth summit boycott

    Canada remains skeptical of Sri Lanka's commitment to an independent investigation of possible war crimes during its civil war and is still threatening to boycott next year's Commonwealth summit in Colombo. A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper...
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    UK comments on LLRC report

    Alistair Burt, Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Sri Lanka issued the following statement. "I would like to inform the House of the Government’s views on the Sri Lankan Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission’s (LLRC) report, which was published on 16 December 2011. The LLRC...
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    Cartoon for the day 12 January 2012

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    Canada comments on LLRC report

    Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement on the final report of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission: “Canada notes the public release of the report of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. Although we are...
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    US replies Iran, sends more ships

    After Iran's warning to the U.S. not to send its ships to the gulf, U.S. has deployed more ships to the area. Iran also threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for the world's oil supply. The U.S. has said it would not allow Iran to block the Strait, calling it a "red...
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    Protest in Matara

    Thousands of students are converging from three different fronts and are heading for the main Matara bus station and hundreds of police and army personnel have been rushed to the area, residents said. They said the students belonging to several universities both in Matara and elsewhere are...
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    Cartoon for the day 11 January 2012

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    Earthquake 7.3 Sumatra, Indonesia

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