All posts tagged "Sri Lanka"
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622ConflictSri Lankan Parliament speaker refuses to accept Rajapaksa as new PM until majority’s proved
Sri Lanka’s speaker of the Parliament said that he would not accept Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new prime minister until he proved a...
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To end political stalemate, Sri Lanka President lifts suspension on Parliament
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has lifted the suspension of parliament and convened a meeting of the legislature on Monday to end...
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Sri Lanka President replaces PM with Opposition leader, suspends Parliament
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena dismissed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with opposition leader Mahinda Rajapakse, hours later suspending the country’s...
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Ahead of meeting Modi, Sri Lanka reverses $300-million housing deal with China
Ahead of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s meeting with Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, the government reversed a decision to...
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Sri Lankan President calls Modi, denies report that ‘RAW plotting to kill him’
Sri Lanka’s president Maithripala Sirisena has called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has ‘categorically denied’ the report that quoted him as...
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Sri Lankans still waiting for land occupied by military during civil war: Report
U.S-based rights group, Human Rights Watch, in an 80 page report, underlined the ‘military occupation of civilian land in Sri Lanka’, saying...
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High level Pakistan delegation, headed by Pak defense secretary to visit Sri Lanka
A high-level Pakistani delegation headed by Pakistani Defence Secretary Ikram Ul Haq will arrive in Sri Lanka on a four-day visit between...
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Despite emergency, Buddhist mobs continue to burn Muslim homes, businesses in Sri Lanka
Mullegama: Despite a state of emergency, Buddhist mobs continue to burn Muslim homes and businesses in Sri Lanka forcing the survivors to take refuge...
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Emergency declared in Sri Lanka as Muslim homes and businesses set on fire in ‘Buddhist Muslim clash’
Muslim homes, business and mosques were badly damaged in riots Monday triggered by the death of a Sinhalese man at the hands...
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Radical Buddhist monks attack Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka
Colombo: A group of Buddhist monks belonging to an extremist Sri Lankan nationalist organisation stormed a United Nations safe house for Rohingya Muslim...
