Government of Sri Lanka

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Sri Lankan Embassies Sheltered Criminals

Sri Lanka's foreign minister on Friday accused the previous administration of using its embassies abroad as "safe...

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Sri Lanka Ends Search For Garbage Survivors As Toll Hits 32

Sri Lanka on Wednesday ended the grim search for survivors five days after a huge garbage mountain collapsed onto a...

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Hundreds Evacuated After Deadly Sri Lanka Dump Collapse

Sri Lanka has moved over 400 families to temporary shelters after tonnes of rotting garbage collapsed onto a slum on...

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Hope Fades For Sri Lanka Missing, Garbage Toll Hits 21

Hopes of finding anyone alive under a collapsed mountain of garbage in Sri Lanka's capital faded Sunday as the death...

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Sri Lanka Signals Arrests Over High-Profile Killings

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday he would not protect anyone guilty of murder during the civil...

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UN Rights Chief Blasts Sri Lanka Over War Probe

The UN rights chief on Wednesday condemned Sri Lanka's persistent failure to probe war-era atrocities, suggesting the...

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Sri Lanka Ex-Leader’s Brother Shifts Blame For Killings

The brother of Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapakse denied Tuesday involvement in war-era death squads,...

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Sri Lanka Ex-Leader’s Brother ‘led Death Squad’

Former Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse's brother Gotabhaya directed a top-secret death squad which targeted...

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Sri Lanka Risks Censure As President Falters On War Legacy

President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka promising justice for war crimes, breaking from his hawkish...

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Sri Lanka To Scale Back Port Deal With China

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is to scale back a profitable but controversial deal to sell a deep-sea port to a Chinese...

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Sri Lanka To Honour $12 Bn Debt Despite Dispute

Sri Lanka Monday vowed to honour government bonds of up to 1,780 billion rupees ($11.86 billion) even as the central...

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Sri Lanka Prison Bus Shooting Kills Seven

Attackers opened fire on a prison bus outside Colombo on Monday, killing five prisoners and two armed guards in the...

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Minority Walks Out of Parliament

The Minority walked out of Parliament on Tuesday night during deliberations on a proposed amendment to the Local...

International

Sri Lanka Protest Over Chinese Investment Turns Ugly

Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and...

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Police Warns Against Spreading ‘fear and Alarm’ With Fictitious Alerts

The Ghana Police Service has warned persons who circulate unconfirmed reports to desist from the practice or face the...

Opinion

A Lawless IGP?

That this country is descending into what seems to be irrecoverable state, is not in doubt, that leadership has lost...