A Japanese peace envoy opened talks with Sri Lankan leaders Monday as the international community stepped up pressure over Colombo’s decision to abandon a truce with the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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A roadside bomb attack Monday on a van filled with explosives in northern Sri Lanka killed two soldiers and one civilian, the military said.
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Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), the international truce monitoring group in Sri Lanka’s faltering Norwegian backed peace process with the Tamil Tigers, said Sunday it will wind-up its operations on Wednesday in the coming week. …
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Sri Lanka’s main Muslim minority party Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) on Sunday expressed concerns about the possibility of free and fair elections being held in the island’s Eastern Province in the proposed local elections. The C …
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Japan’s special peace envoy on Sri Lanka’s peace process with the Tamil Tiger rebels arrived in the capital Colombo on Sunday, officials said. Yasushi Akashi, who was making his 15th visit to the island country since being appointe …
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In a joint statement, Tokyo Co-Chairs (Norway, Japan, US and EU) expressed the need to continue with..
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Jan 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa said the India-Sri Lanka agreement signed in 1987 was the best solution for the country’s ethnic issues, saying that then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi ‘had a vision’.
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Jan 13, Colombo: Ceylon Petroleum Corporation today increased the fuel prices with effect from midnight.
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Jan 13, Colombo: Sri Lankan Premier Rathnasiri Wickramanayaka says that the year 2008 will bring an end to the terrorism in the country.
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Jan 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army Chief, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka yesterday pledged that the present war against terrorism will not be handed over to his successor.
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