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The British government said Wednesday it’s shocked by a documentary that purportedly shows Sri Lankan troops committing war crimes, and warned that it will back international action unless the island nation shows progress with an investigation this year.

The British government says it’s shocked by a documentary that purportedly shows Sri Lankan troops committing war crimes, and it’s putting more pressure on Sri Lankan officials to investigate.

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Sri Lanka’s police chief will resign to take responsibility for a violent crackdown on a workers’ protest, the government said Wednesday, hours before a wounded worker died in a hospital.

The United Nations has released footage appearing to show graphic scenes of prisoner executions during the final days of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009.

Sri Lankan police shot and tear gassed an unruly labor protest on Monday, and more than 200 workers and police were wounded in the clashes, officials said.

A U.N. human rights expert says new footage from the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009 is authentic and proves war crimes took place.

Floods, mudslides and lightning have killed eight people throughout Sri Lanka.

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed says he can’t be unseated through protests and has challenged the opposition to defeat him in an election.

Police blocked hundreds of protesters in the Maldives from rallying in a central plaza Friday, arresting several people at the opposition-led demonstration against soaring prices they blame on the government’s reform policies.

Hundreds of protesters in the Maldives joined an opposition-led rally Friday to protest soaring prices they blame on the government’s reform policies. Officials warned the demonstration could turn “nasty” and vowed to break it up.

The Maldives government on Thursday invited the opposition to join hands to address economic woes after days of protests over alleged mismanagement and inflation.

Anti-government demonstrators are defying a heavy police presence to protest for a second straight night, demanding the ouster of Maldives President Mohamad Nasheed.

Maldives police used tear gas and batons to break up a protest early Sunday demanding that President Mohamad Nasheed step down. Dozens of people were injured and many were arrested.

Several thousand protesters converged on the Maldives capital Male Saturday to demand that President Mohamad Nasheed step down, an opposition spokesman said.

A Maldives opposition spokesman says several thousand protesters have converged on the capital Male to demand that President Mohamad Nasheed step down.

A United Nations report that gives credence to allegations of human rights abuses during the bloody end of Sri Lanka’s civil war has given some victims’ families hope for justice, while others say the U.N. action comes too late.

A U.N. panel has called for a thorough international investigation into allegations that war crimes were committed in Sri Lanka as its decades-old civil war drew to a close nearly two years ago.

India’s in cricket heaven, Sri Lanka reached the final and Pakistan the last four. Of cricket’s main Asian nations, only Bangladesh out had a bad World Cup.

Be brutally honest: When they dropped India’s Sachin Tendulkar four times in the World Cup semifinal, who didn’t wonder — however fleetingly, however unfairly — whether Pakistan’s players might have been bribed?

Some estimates suggest one-sixth of humanity watched the blockbuster World Cup semifinal of India vs. Pakistan on Wednesday.

Some estimates suggest one-sixth of humanity watched the blockbuster World Cup semifinal India vs. Pakistan on Wednesday.

A look the key matchups in the India vs. Sri Lanka World Cup final:

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara deflected all the pressure onto India a day before the World Cup final by saying the host team will carry the “weight of expectation.”

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara doesn’t know for sure that Muttiah Muralitharan will be fit enough to play in Saturday’s World Cup final, but he’s banking on fate to step in.

India wants Sachin Tendulkar to lift the World Cup at his home ground, but Sri Lanka is aiming for a repeat of its cricket win 15 years ago.

The World Cup cricket final pits India vs. Sri Lanka, and it features the best batsman against the most prolific bowler.

An international human rights group has urged the Sri Lankan government to release hundreds of prisoners held without charge under the country’s tough anti-terror laws.

A Tamil migrant who arrived in western Canada aboard a cargo ship has been ordered deported to Sri Lanka after admitting he had been a member of a terrorist organization.

Sri Lanka batsman Mahela Jayawardene is urging World Cup organizers to prepare wickets that are evenly-balanced rather than geared towards helping spin bowlers at the tournament

A senior U.N. official says 5,000 suspected ex-combatants remain in Sri Lankan camps 21 months after a quarter-century civil war ended.

A mob armed with clubs attacked opposition protesters Friday who were marching to demand the release of Sri Lanka’s defeated presidential candidate from jail.

A top U.N. official launched a $51 million fundraising drive for Sri Lankan flood victims Thursday after taking a tour of areas affected by the flood and decimated by the nation’s civil war.

The United Nations plans to seek $51 million to help Sri Lankans recover from deadly floods that have affected up to 1 million people.

Aid has not reached many of those affected by floods in eastern Sri Lanka, a Buddhist monk said Tuesday, as thousands of people protested the government response outside his temple.

Tiny Shamsa is a victim of the war against Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan, but it wasn’t bullets or bombs that paralyzed her right leg. The 18-month-old contracted polio after fighting blocked vaccination teams from reaching her village.

The United Nations said it will launch an emergency appeal for funds to help those affected by floods that have ravaged eastern Sri Lanka for days, as the death toll in the flooding rose to 32 on Saturday.

Floods and mudslides that have ravaged Sri Lanka’s east for days have submerged rice paddies and hampered food distribution, officials said Friday, leaving many villagers to scrounge for corn and yams in nearby fields.

Sri Lanka says four more people have died in floods and mudslides and 11 more have disappeared.

Sri Lanka is hospitalizing pregnant women and young children to shield them from waterborne diseases in districts where floods have brought sewage into the streets, a health official said Thursday.

Sri Lanka’s government says the death toll from floods and mudslides over several parts of the country has increased to 13, with four more people reported dead since the weekend.

Sri Lanka has decided to remove all remaining references to its British colonial name Ceylon from state institutions.

Sri Lanka has backtracked and will now allow a United Nations team to visit the country and share evidence gathered during an investigation into whether war crimes were committed during the final phase of the island’s bloody civil war, a Cabinet minister said Saturday.

New video evidence has emerged linking Sri Lanka’s military to the execution of prisoners during the final hours of the country’s decades-long civil war last year, international human rights groups said Thursday.

An international human rights group says there is new video evidence linking Sri Lanka’s military to the summary execution of prisoners during the final stages of the country’s civil war last year.

A Jordanian recruitment agency has dismissed a report alleging abuse of a Sri Lankan domestic worker.

An international human rights group on Tuesday urged Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to do more to protect domestic workers, citing fresh allegations that employers in the three Mideast nations abused their Sri Lankan maids.

Police say inmates resisting a search for prohibited items at a prison in Sri Lanka’s capital have wounded 46 police and five prison officials.

The Maldives has set rules for conducting marriage ceremonies for tourists drawn to the islands’ white-sand beaches, after being embarrassed by a celebrant who heaped abuse on a Swiss couple renewing their vows.

Their second wedding video perhaps wasn’t quite what they were expecting.

A Sri Lankan man was convicted Wednesday of conspiring to kill the country’s former president in a suicide bomb attack and was sentenced to 30 years of hard labor, an official said.

More than three years after federal agents locked up a Sri Lankan immigrant they say was the top U.S. representative of the Tamil Tigers, his fate may hinge on a complex question: Was the rebel group a terrorist threat to Americans?

A government-appointed commission inquiring into Sri Lanka’s civil war criticized leading human rights groups Friday for declining its invitations to testify.

Three international rights groups have declined to testify before a government-appointed commission inquiring into Sri Lanka’s civil war, saying it lacks independence and has no mandate to investigate alleged war crimes.

A Sri Lankan military court Friday convicted the former army chief, who ran for president on the opposition ticket, of fraud. He could be sentenced to jail time.

Police say improperly stored detonators are likely to have triggered a dynamite explosion that killed 25 people and injured dozens in eastern Sri Lanka.

Three containers filled with explosives meant for road construction detonated Friday outside a police station in eastern Sri Lanka, killing 25 people, most of them police officers, in a blast government officials called an accident.

Three containers filled with explosives meant for road construction detonated Friday outside a police station in eastern Sri Lanka, killing as many as 60 people in a blast government officials called an accident.

A government spokesman says an accidental blast of explosives meant for road construction in Sri Lanka’s east has killed 20 people, including two Chinese nationals.

Sri Lanka’s Parliament has voted to eliminate a two-term limit for the presidency.