Ship full of Sri Lankan refugees nears Canada: reports
MONTREAL, August 11, 2010 (AFP) - A ship full of Sri Lankan refugees was less than 320 kilometers (200 miles) from Canada's western shores and could be …
MONTREAL, August 11, 2010 (AFP) - A ship full of Sri Lankan refugees was less than 320 kilometers (200 miles) from Canada's western shores and could be …
August 10, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president Tuesday sacked a maverick minister who had tied a state official to a tree as punishment for failing to control …
WASHINGTON, August 10, 2010 (AFP) - A group of US lawmakers is urging the Obama administration to push for an independent international investigation into …
August 10, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka announced the government-appointed panel looking into the island's civil war that ended last year would hold its first public …
SYDNEY, August 8, 2010 (AFP) - Despite its Aboriginal roots and a large Asian population, Australia's politics are almost exclusively white with just a handful …
August 5, 2010 (AFP) - Two opposition lawmakers in Sri Lanka defected to the ruling party on Thursday, bringing President Mahinda Rajapakse closer to altering …
WASHINGTON, August 4, 2010 (AFP) - The United States and Canada said Wednesday they are monitoring a ship said to be packed with Tamil refugees bound for …
August 3, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops arrested over 1,500 Tamil rebel suspects during July, more than a year after the separatist guerrilla group was …
August 3, 2010 (AFP) - A group of global statesmen, founded by Nelson Mandela, Tuesday criticised the Sri Lankan government for failing to build on peace …
August 2, 2010 (AFP) - Thousands of men, women and children displaced by Sri Lanka's civil war are living in the open air 15 months after fighting ended, the …
GENEVA, August 1, 2010 (AFP) - A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, …
July 30, 2010 (AFP) - Unidentified attackers set fire to a private television station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo Friday after smashing editing …
July 29, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka was brought before the Colombo High Court on Thursday to …
July 25, 2010 (LBO) - Vietnam will open an embassy in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo in early 2011, a joint statement following a meeting of deputy foreign …
July 21, 2010 (AFP) - The United States pressed Sri Lanka on Wednesday to improve human rights and media freedoms amid charges that security forces committed …
JAKARTA, July 15, 2010 (AFP) - Indonesia gave a lukewarm response Thursday to Australia's plans for a processing centre for asylum-seekers in East Timor, …
KILINOCHCHI, July 14, 2010 (AFP) - The president of Sri Lanka held a cabinet meeting on Wednesday in the northern town of Kilinochchi, the capital of the Tamil …
July 13, 2010 (AFP) - The Sri Lankan president and his ministers are to hold a meeting Wednesday in Kilinochchi, the northern town from which the Tamil Tiger …
July 10, 2010 (LBO) - Diplomats in Colombo have called upon the government to ensure the security of United National staff and expressed dismay at a 'blockade' …
UNITED NATIONS, July 9, 2010 (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon Friday called Friday on Sri Lanka to "normalize conditions" around the UN office in Colombo after …