The Indian government freed Kashmir's chief Muslim cleric and influential separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday (22) after more than four years of house arrest
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At least six people were remanded to judicial custody by a Sri Lankan court on Monday (18) in connection with an attack by a Sinhalese group on people attending the commemorative event for a prominent Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)…
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It was the spring of infatuation. Millions of Sinhala voters saw Gotabaya Rajapaksa the way he saw himself, a colossus among men, a king reborn. He and his acolytes had spent much time and more effort crafting that image
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It’s not Sri Lanka that has a Channel 4 problem, it’s the Sri Lankan government. But in this corner of the world the Sri Lankan people are, for better or worse, identified with their government. As such any media program targeting the Sri…
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Sri Lanka's Catholic church Wednesday (6) demanded an international probe into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Colombo after a British documentary claimed they were orchestrated to tip the outcome of that year's election
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Inside a sprawling golf resort south of New Delhi, diplomats were busy making final preparations for a fast-approaching global summit. The road outside was freshly smoothed and dotted with police officers. Posters emblazoned with the image…
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After the political and social upheaval generated by the lack of provisions and social security which led to the aragalaya in 2022, there is a socio-political discourse in the country and diaspora about why the country descended into the…
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n Easter Sunday 2019, six suicide bombings hit Catholic churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, killing 269 people. Quickly, the perpetrators were identified as domestic religious extremists the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama’ath), claimed…
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French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas - an over-garment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women - on the first day of the school year, a government minister said Tuesday (5)
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Sri Lanka’s State Minister for Public Security Tiran Alles on Monday (28) criticized Catholic leaders for not heeding his repeated requests to jointly revisit the probes into the 2019 Easter Sunday attack and help the police to get their…
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