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An official in Togo says authorities are holding more than 150 Sri Lankan refugees who entered the West African nation en route to Canada.

Inmates and guards clashed at a Sri Lankan prison Tuesday, injuring at least 28 people before soldiers restored control after five hours, officials said.

Hundreds of political and human rights activists on Wednesday questioned the Sri Lankan government’s will to solve the killing of an outspoken newspaper editor three years ago.

The president of the Maldives has ordered the country’s resorts to reopen their spas pending a court decision, just days after they were shut under pressure from protesters led by an Islamic opposition party.

Maldives ordered hundreds of its luxury resorts to close their spas nearly a week after a protest led by opposition parties demanding a halt to “anti-Islamic” activities, the government said Friday.

Ethnic Tamil women in Sri Lanka’s former war zones face abuses including sexual violence, trafficking and forced prostitution, an international human rights group said Wednesday.

Sri Lanka’s president has accused the United States of unfairly singling out a government war commission for criticism after it cleared the military of deliberately targeting civilians during the country’s civil war.

The president of Maldives has condemned a protest planned by an Islamic party against what it calls anti-Islamic activities in the country.

Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil leaders called Monday for an international war crimes inquiry into events during the final stages of the country’s civil war, criticizing a commission report that cleared government forces of deliberately targeting civilians.

A government-appointed war commission has concluded that Sri Lanka’s military did not intentionally target civilians in the final stages of the country’s civil war and that ethnic rebels routinely violated international humanitarian law.

A Sri Lankan war commission has ruled out the possibility that the military intentionally targeted civilians in the final stages of the country’s civil war.

A counsel for a Sri Lankan news website says the government is restoring access to the site unavailable for more than a month over alleged insults.

A Sri Lankan court on Thursday cleared a Roman Catholic nun from Mother Teresa’s charity who was accused of selling babies for adoption.

A Roman Catholic nun from Mother Teresa’s charity who had been accused of running a “baby farm” has been cleared by a Sri Lankan court of any potential charges.

Strong winds have killed seven people along Sri Lanka’s southern coast.

Sri Lanka is counting the number of civilians killed in the final stages of the country’s bloody civil war for the first time, a top defense official said Thursday. The census aims to counter growing allegations of war crimes against the military.

A top U.N. official has urged the Maldives to end its practice of flogging women found to have had sex outside marriage.

Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Wednesday approved the creation of a multiparty committee to recommend constitutional changes for ethnic reconciliation two years after a devastating civil war.

Lawmakers from Sri Lanka’s ruling party have attacked opposition members who were protesting inside Parliament during a budget speech by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

A Sri Lankan commission that probed alleged abuses during the island’s civil war says it will present its final report in a week.

Sri Lankan officials have told a U.N. human rights panel that the country’s government is taking measures to curb acts of torture by security forces.

Sri Lankan officials say five news websites have been blocked because they committed character assassination and insulted people including key political leaders.

A Dutch court convicted five Tamils on Friday of raising funds for the outlawed Tamil Tigers rebel group and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from two to six years.

When Tamil Tigers were routed on the battlefield two years ago, the Sri Lankan government believed it had crushed the 25-year rebellion for a separate Tamil homeland.

Sri Lanka has released about 1,800 former Tamil Tiger rebels who had been held since the island nation’s civil war ended more than two years ago.

Dutch prosecutors have demanded sentences ranging from 10 to 16 years for five ethnic Tamils accused of raising millions of euros (dollars) in the Netherlands to finance the Tamil Tigers’ fight for an independent homeland in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka police say the death toll in a train collision has risen to three. Another 27 were injured.

Police say a passenger train has rammed into the back of another train in Sri Lanka, killing one person and injuring 27 others.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a report by U.N. experts who concluded that tens of thousands of people were killed in the last five months of Sri Lanka’s civil war, primarily by government troops, to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is sending a report by U.N. experts who concluded that tens of thousands of people were killed in the last months of the civil war in Sri Lanka to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

A leading human rights group on Wednesday urged the United Nations to launch an independent investigation of alleged atrocities committed in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war, saying the country’s own probe into the matter was flawed.

An international human rights group has called on Sri Lanka’s government to abolish abusive detention laws and to free thousands of people being held under them.

Thousands of wildlife officials and volunteers have taken up positions on treetop huts near reservoirs and watering holes for Sri Lanka’s first national count of its dwindling wild elephant population.

Wildlife groups will boycott Sri Lanka’s first census of elephants because they fear the count is a “smoke screen” for capturing and domesticating the animals.

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Talks aimed at power sharing after Sri Lanka’s civil war appeared near collapse Friday, with an ethnic minority Tamil party demanding that the government explain its position within two weeks but the government saying it is unable to do so.

Talks aimed at power-sharing in Sri Lanka after a civil war are near collapse as an ethnic minority Tamil party has given an ultimatum to the government on three key issues. The government has already rejected the conditions.

Two advocacy groups asked Swiss authorities Thursday to pursue war crime charges against a former Sri Lankan army commander now serving as a European diplomat, reflecting still-simmering Western concerns about the South Asian island nations’ human rights record.

An international human rights group urged the United Nations on Wednesday to investigate the execution-style slaying of 17 workers for a French aid agency in Sri Lanka five years ago, after a government probe did not identify the killers.

China pointed a finger at Pakistan, one of its closest foreign partners, as it blamed one of two deadly weekend attacks in the northwestern Xinjiang region on Muslim extremists trained across the Pakistani border.‬
Police also “executed on the spot” two more suspected attac …

An international rights group on Tuesday called Sri Lanka’s report on its 26-year civil war an attempt to whitewash growing evidence of alleged government atrocities.

An international rights group has called Sri Lanka’s report on civilian war casualties an attempt to whitewash growing evidence of alleged government atrocities.

Sri Lanka’s government has acknowledged for the first time that there were civilian casualties in the final phase of the country’s civil war against Tamil Tiger rebels.

A new study published yesterday in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says that Pakistan has dramatically increased the rate of its nuclear weapons production in recent years, and is now expanding its nukes stockpile faster than any other country in the world.
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A proxy to Sri Lanka’s now-defunct separatist Tamil Tiger rebels swept local council elections held in areas ravaged by the country’s 25-year civil war, officials said Sunday, amid reports of intimidation and vote-buying.

A former proxy to Sri Lanka’s defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels has swept local council elections held in areas ravaged by the country’s 25-year civil war, winning 80 percent of the councils it contested.

Sri Lanka’s northern Tamil heartland is nervously calm as voters trickle to polling stations to elect local councils following the country’s long civil war.

Minority Tamil candidates hope a weekend election in their heartland in northern Sri Lanka will give them a mandate to demand self-determination.

United States lacks a clear conceptual understanding of what it calls “Af-Pak.” Additionally, Washington is sub-optimally organized to think strategically and coherently about the area.

Sri Lanka is preparing for its first census of elephants in the island’s forests to help protect the endangered species against the loss of its habitat.

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On November 26, 2008, in the afterglow of Barack Obama’s election, gunmen terrorized Mumbai, India’s financial capital, with a siege that claimed 166 lives. The event would have profound implications for the Obama presidency.

In Pakistan, hundreds of people took to the streets to take part in demonstrations on Osama bin Laden. About this with reference to eyewitnesses reported Agence France-Presse.
Performances were held in the city of Quetta in western Pakistan.

Pakistanis largely disapprove of the U.S.

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British PM makes speech in Bangalore that comes close to endorsing the Indian government’s view that the authorities in Pakistan have a hand in exporting terrorism.
Britain has spoken in the past of the terror threat that emerges from Pakistan.

Hundreds of people protested Thursday demanding to know the whereabouts of their family members abducted by “white van squads” allegedly operated by the Sri Lankan government during the height of the country’s civil war.

Pakistani Taliban have claimed that they are running three secret camps in South and North Waziristan tribal regions close to the Afghan border to train potential suicide bombers with their total strength exceeding 1,000.
“We have three facilities exclusively for fidayeen (su …