World | Sri Lanka
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Thursday May 24
Fonseka 'politically victimised', will carry on fight to clear his name
Ex-general will continue in politics and campaign for next polls, MP says
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Thursday Apr 26
UN finds cluster bombs in Sri Lanka
A report from a U.N. mine removal expert says unexploded cluster munitions have been found in northern Sri Lanka, appearing to confirm, for the first time, that the weapons were used in that country's long civil war
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Wednesday Mar 21
UN resolution divides ethnic groups
Government's efforts to stave off probe alienate Tamils further
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Friday Mar 16
Tamil lawmakers want UN pressure on Sri Lanka
Colombo has not shown a genuine interest in sharing power with the ethnic minority, Sampanthan says
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Wednesday Mar 14
Call for Sri Lankans to shun US goods
Sri Lankan minister calls for boycott of American brands in protest of US support for resolution encouraging separatism
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Friday Mar 2
US judge throws out case against president
Rajapakse granted immunity in suit brought by relatives of Tamil Tigers and aid worker killed during civil war
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Tuesday Feb 28
Sri Lankans protest draft UN resolution
Thousands join state-backed rallies against a proposed UN Human Rights Council resolution
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Friday Nov 18
Court jails Sri Lanka ex-army chief for three years
Sri Lankan High Court sentenced former army chief Sarath Fonseka to three years in jail on Friday after finding him guilty of making a false allegation against the president's brother
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Tuesday Nov 8
Sri Lanka blocks five news websites
Information ministry claims it received complaints against sites for publishing defamatory articles
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Saturday Oct 8
Women clean up the dangerous legacy of Sri Lankan civil war
Several who lost husbands take on job of removing landmines
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Friday Sep 2
Sri Lanka passes new laws to hold terror suspects
3,000 ex-rebels still in military-run centres
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Saturday Aug 13
Night prowler panic grips rural Sri Lanka as three die
Assaults blamed on 'grease devils
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Saturday Aug 13
Volunteers count wild elephant population
Conservation groups accuse government of using census as a smoke screen
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Friday Aug 12
"Grease Devil" panic grips rural Sri Lanka, at least three killed
Panic over nighttime assaults blamed on "grease devils" has struck across rural Sri Lanka
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Friday Jul 1
Sri Lanka cricket administration dissolved amid corruption claims, official says
A government official says Sri Lanka's sports minister has dissolved the country's cricket administration amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement
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Wednesday Jun 15
Britain demands Sri Lanka probe
UN panel reported that there are credible reports that government and Tamil Tigers committed serious human rights violations
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Tuesday May 24
Military training for university entrants in Sri Lanka
Government orders 22,000 university entrants to attend 'leadership and positive-thinking training' for three weeks at 28 military camps
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Tuesday Apr 26
UN chief sets conditions for Sri Lanka war probe
UN panel report finds 'credible evidence' of war crimes in the months before the war ended in May 2009
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Sunday Mar 6
US ups pressure on Sri Lanka
Commission must probe war deaths — Senate
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Saturday Feb 5
Thirteen dead in fresh Sri Lanka floods
Heavy monsoon downpours have driven some 800,000 people out of their flooded homes and left at least 13 people dead in Sri Lanka.
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Tuesday Jan 18
Sri Lankans besiege office to demand flood aid
Accuse officials of holding back relief goods.
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Wednesday Jan 12
18 die in floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka
nearly 200,000 people, mostly in Eastern Province, have lost their homes because of the flooding.
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Sunday Jan 9
Group accuses Sri Lanka of blocking slain editor's probe
Says Wickrematunge's killers remain at large two years on
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Monday Jan 3
Sri Lanka to end use of its colonial name Ceylon
Sri Lanka to remove references to its British colonial name Ceylon from state institutions
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Sunday Dec 19
Sri Lanka allows rights panel to share evidence
Colombo invites UN team to visit country
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