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Frustrated relief workers demand protection in Sri Lanka
KALLAR, Sri Lanka, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – Tired and hungry aid workers labor ceaselessly in crowded refugee camps on the edge of Sri Lanka’s conflict zone amid the thundering sound of artillery.“We will not go to Muttur unless we deem it safe.” Their steely resolve gives hope to nearly 30,000 people displaced by heavy […]
French aid group to review Sri Lanka presence after bloodiest hit
Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – A French aid agency said Monday it would review its presence in Sri Lanka after 15 of its workers were found shot dead in the worst attack since its inception 25 years ago.Paris-based Action Against Hunger, or ACF, said 11 men and four women, all Sri Lankans, had been killed […]
Sri Lanka offers probe into massacre of French aid workers
Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka will order a “clean and independent” investigation into the reported killing of 15 workers of a French charity during fighting in the northeast, the human rights minister told AFP Monday.The government will grant “very high priority” to probe charges that 11 men and four women, all locals employed […]
Evacuation of migrant workers from Lebanon resumes
GENEVA, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – Evacuations of thousands of Asian and Ethiopian migrant workers trapped in war-torn Lebanon have resumed, the International Organisation for Migration said Monday. About 750 people a day are expected to travel to Syria in coach convoys over the next five days, unless the security situation deteriorates further, the IOM […]
French group finds slain workers in Sri Lanka
Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – The bodies of 16 slain aid workers were found in Sri Lanka on Monday as new fighting between security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels dashed hope of an immediate end to the violence in the troubled nation.The Tigers said meanwhile that at least 15 more civilians were killed in new […]
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WASHINGTON, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – If you had a billion dollars in the bank and lived a jet-set lifestyle out of a string of luxury homes filled with valuable artworks, your taxes would be pretty hefty, right?Well not entirely, according to a Senate probe that has examined hundreds of documents and issued 74 subpoenas […]
‘s play at major US computer hackers conference
LAS VEGAS, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – Locks commonly used at homes and businesses worldwide were so easy to pick that children could do it, computer hackers practicing the skill were shown on Sunday.In a Las Vegas casino meeting room devoted to the art of lock picking for the course of a three-day DefCon hackers […]
‘ heel of computer security: hackers, pros
LAS VEGAS, Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – The most vexing weakness in computer security is not in the hardware or the software, it is in the people who use the machines, according to top hackers and cyber safety specialists.“It really is more of a human problem than a technical problem,” Dan Kaminisky of Dox Para […]
Good Money
August 7, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has picked up 12 million rupees to date from taxing foreign movies, dramas and sitcoms aired on local television stations, President Mahinda Rajapakse said. Rajapakse, who is also the island’s finance minister, introduced the tax late July, to raise funds to boost the ailing local film industry. “We […]
Friendship Bridge
August 7, 2006 (LBO) – The United States government Monday kicked off a project to build a 10.6 million dollar high-tech bridge at Arugam Bay, to replace the original one that was damaged during the tsunami. Dispensed through the U.S. Agency for International Development or USAID, the bridge is the single largest infrastructure project in […]
Sri Lanka sells 3-year bonds at 11.05%
August 7, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Central Bank sold three-year treasury bonds at yields of 11.05 percent on Monday, after rejecting all bids at a similar auction last week.The bank offered a billion rupees worth of bonds to the market but accepted only 850 million rupees worth of bids. Current Auction Maturity June 2009 […]
Sri Lanka rebels warn full-scale war if strikes resume
Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels who agreed to end a bitter water dispute Sunday warned peace broker Norway that they would resort to full-scale war if Sri Lanka resumes air strikes, a spokesman told AFP.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) told Oslo’s top envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer that they were lifting a […]