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Sri Lanka says Tiger base hit, 17 dead in clashes
June 15, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lankan war planes destroyed a suspected Tamil Tiger logistics base in the island’s northeast Sunday after ground battles left 15 guerrillas and two soldiers dead, the defence ministry said.Air force fighter jets pounded a “logistics base and combat vehicle conversion plant” in Mullaitivu district early Sunday, the ministry said. […]
and military secrets at the Bagram bazaar
BAGRAM, June 15, 2008 (AFP) – “I don’t really know what it is for,” says a salesman with some embarrassment, despite the explicit illustrations on the bottle of “Long Love Spray”.Alongside it on the shelf of a tiny shop in the bazaar at Bagram is a “special sex” gel as well as distinctive blue pills […]
G8 finance chiefs send message to oil speculators: analysts
OSAKA, June 15, 2008 (AFP) – Group of Eight finance chiefs sent a warning signal to oil speculators this weekend, highlighting the inflation threat to the global economy in an attempt to cool red-hot energy prices, analysts said.Although the finance ministers said it was unclear how much influence speculators wield over energy markets, their remarks […]
Cash strapped Sri Lanka Cricket sinks deeper into debt: report
June 15, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Cricket, the island’s richest sporting body, is currently surviving on a 7.5 million dollar overdraft, a media report said. The triangular series had been due to take place in August 2006 between the hosts, South Africa and India. India stayed to play Sri Lanka, but rain disrupted the […]
Sri Lanka returns orphaned baby elephants to the wild
UDAWALAWE, June 14, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka on Saturday released eight orphaned baby elephants into the jungle after rescuing them from near certain death, wildlife officials said. Official figures show about 150 are killed annually by villagers whose crops are destroyed by marauding elephants that claim the lives of 50 farmers each year. Many […]
Jumbo Release
UDAWALAWE, June 14, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka on Saturday released eight orphaned baby elephants into the jungle after rescuing them from near certain death, wildlife officials said.Many of those elephants cared for by the wildlife officials have been injured after being struck by trains or shot by farmers. Others are rescued from pits into […]
Smoking Out
June 14, 2008 (LBO) – Laugfs Eco Sri, a unit of Sri Lanka’s Laugfs gas distributor, plans to launch a sample testing centre next month to test vehicle exhaust emissions ahead of the imposition of new emission standards. The government has said vehicles that do not meet proposed exhaust emission standards will not be given […]
US airline catastrophe looms under record oil prices: study
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2008 (AFP) – The US airline industry is set to crash as record oil prices threaten to push several carriers into bankruptcy, threatening “our American way of life,” an industry study said. “As a consequence of the skyrocketing price of oil, the US commercial aviation industry is in full-blown crisis and heading […]
US will take a 100 years to recover from Bush: Gore Vidal
MADRID, June 14, 2008 (AFP) – It will take the the United States a century to recover from the damage wreaked by President George.W. Bush, US writer Gore Vidal said in an interview published Saturday.“The president behaved like a virtual criminal but we didn’t have the courage to sack him for fear of violating the […]
British Patels are top consumers of hi-tec gadgets
LONDON, June 13 (Asia Pulse) – In the world of hi-tech gadgetry, you no longer need to keep up with the Joneses but with the Patels. Analysis of buying behaviour among people with common surnames has found that those called Patel are most likely to own must-have gadgets. Based on 12 months of sales figures […]