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audio of PM Harper speaking
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Next commonwealth meeting will be held in Perth, Australia
28-30 October 2011
2013 meeting in Sri Lanka, dates/details to be announced
The U.N.'s top human rights official says she expects a hotly contested report on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka to be referred to the global body's Human Rights Council within hours.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told The Associated Press on Monday that U.N...
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake who arrived on an official visit to Sri Lanka met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa today.
He will meet with government officials, civil society representatives, university students and political leaders...
The Managing Director of V FM Radio has been hospitalized after being assaulted by 3 unidentified men at his Boralesgamuwa residence, SSP Deshabandu Tennakoon said.
Import of Television satellite Antennas will need approval of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRC) in future, Director General of the Authority Anusha Palpita said.
He said that this was in view of the import of a large number of antennas illegally.
The Sri Lanka Customs have...
A Chinese spy ship reportedly disguised as a fishing trawler was tracked in the Indian Ocean recently and later traced to the Colombo Port, an Indian media report said.
The ship was detected near the coast of Little Anadaman.
It is believed that the ship had spent more than 20 days in the...
Over two years after Sri Lanka's war against the LTTE, the Mahinda Rajapakse government has for the first time indirectly admitted that some of its army personnel may have indulged in human rights violations in the final phase of the war. They add that these army personnel may therefore be...
The Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous claims to have hacked into the DNS servers of Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and several other large organizations over the past few days.
Posting the news and records of its exploits on Pastebin, the group is taking credit for launching "DNS...
The main opposition UNP today warned of an impending power crisis as a result of US$300 million scam at the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) in the importation of low sulphur oil needed for thermal power generation.
UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara told a news conference today that the CPC is...
Hurricane Irene Pictures
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(storm path)
Over the past week, Hurricane Irene grew from a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean to a category 3 hurricane as it blew north along the East Coast of the United States. High winds and tremendous rainfall downed...
About 1,200 alleged Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka will be released, with the end of emergency rule imposed 28 years ago to deal with the separatist movement, state media said Wednesday.
The Daily News quoted Justice Minister Rauf Hakeem as saying that the end of emergency rule...
The social media website Facebook has decided to investigate the fan page for the “grease devil” after Sri Lankan authorities had lodged a complaint.
Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team Senior Information Security Engineer Rohana Palliyaguru told The Sunday Leader that a complaint...
By Sujeeva Nivunhella
Sri Lanka’s Acting High Commissioner in London, P. M. Amza met with Chief Executive Officer of the British Accreditation Council, Dr. Gina Hobson on Friday to discuss the issue of more than 100 Sri Lankan students left stranded in London.
These students...
India today welcomed the decision of the Sri Lankan government to withdraw emergency from the island nation and said it would want that country to investigate human rights violations in a transparent manner.
Replying to a short duration discussion on steps taken by the government on relief...
An explosion in a United Nations building in the Nigerian capital Abuja was caused by a bomb, a U.N. spokeswoman in Geneva said on Friday.
U.N. spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci said an official at the U.N. information centre in the Nigerian city of Lagos had confirmed to her that the blast...