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Weary Sri Lankan medics fight fatigue as casualties mount
KANTALAI, Sri Lanka, Aug 10, 2006 (AFP) – Doctor Iranthi de Silva has worked for 15 hours straight, battling fatigue and stress as casualties in Sri Lanka’s strife-torn northeast mounted Thursday. A brief lull in the chaotic, makeshift emergency room at the Kantalai Base Hospital allowed her to sit down. But the distant wailing of […]
Fresh fighting dims Sri Lanka peace hopes, rebels say more than 50 killed
KANTALAI, Sri Lanka, Aug 10, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lankan warplanes bombed Tiger positions as fighting broke out again near a disputed waterway in the troubled northeast Thursday, leaving more than 50 people dead according to the rebels. Some 30,000 people who fled their homes last week because of fighting between troops and the Tigers […]
Two soldiers dead in renewed fighting near Sri Lanka waterway
KANTALAI, Sri Lanka, Aug 10, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lankan war planes bombed Tamil Tiger positions as the two sides shelled each other around a disputed waterway near here Thursday, leaving at least two soldiers dead and 26 wounded. “We are on a defensive operation,” spokesman Upali Rajapakse said. “We had to retaliate when our […]
Postal Finance
Aug 9, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s postal department is looking to provide agency financial services to boost revenue and reduce its operating deficit.It has a long association with the state-owned National Savings Bank and is used to dealing with savings accounts. “We feel that the post office is the ideal location in the rural […]
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Aug 9, 2006 (LBO) – Reporters Without Borders has called on both sides in Sri Lanka’s civil war to see that journalists could continue reporting in areas of fighting, especially in the northeastern town of Muttur, and criticised them for refusing to allow the media into these zones.“We know some parts of the country have […]
‘s Union Bank
LONDON, Aug 9, 2006 (AFP) – Standard Chartered, the Britain-based emerging markets bank, said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy 80.86 percent of Pakistan’s Union Bank for 413 million dollars (321 million euros). “The acquisition of Union Bank will make Standard Chartered the sixth largest bank in Pakistan by market share of assets and […]
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PARIS, Aug 9, 2006 (AFP) – A French charity on Wednesday demanded that the “butchers” behind the murder of 17 of its employees in Sri Lanka’s embattled northeast be brought to justice and full light shed on the killings.ACF director Benoit Miribel was to leave for Sri Lanka Wednesday to attend ceremonies commemorating the dead […]
War fears ease as fighting stops over Sri Lanka canal
Aug 9, 2006 (AFP) – Water flowed down a disputed canal in Sri Lanka Wednesday after peace broker Norway defused the island’s bloodiest battle in four years and averted a return to civil war, residents and officials said.Norway’s special envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer arranged for the Tamil Tiger rebels to end a water blockade at the […]
Five killed in attack on ambulance
Aug 9, 2006 (AFP) – Five people including a doctor were killed when an ambulance was caught up in a mine attack carried out by government forces, Tamil Tiger rebels said.A Claymore mine attack in the island’s central district of Kandy killed a senior police commando officer and his driver on Monday. The blast hit […]
Tamil rebels insisting EU monitors must go: Sri Lanka
Aug 9, 2006 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels are insisting that truce monitors from EU countries quit Sri Lanka despite efforts by peace broker Norway to persuade them to drop their demand, the government said Wednesday.Norway’s top peace envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer told the government that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were demanding monitors […]