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Counter-terrorism police searched two Melbourne homes on Thursday that are reportedly linked to an Australian man who has posed as a physiotherapist working in an Islamic State hospital in Syria. The houses in Meadow Heights and Craigieburn were searched by police looking for information about Mohomed Unais Mohomed Ameen, the ABC reported. Australian Federal Police confirmed the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team carried out the searches but would not comment further, other than …
Saturday, January 30, 2016 5:18 am,
by eyeadmin
Just a little over a year ago, voters in Sri Lanka rallied to elect a new president, with high hopes that he would usher in a new era of government accountability and bring healing to a country fractured by the brutal civil war that ended in 2009. President Maithripala Sirisena has taken bold steps to fulfill those hopes since his election last January. But the wounds …
Friday, January 29, 2016 12:24 pm,
by eyeadmin
Our return to Sri Lanka’s killing fields has managed to coincide with two major developments – the first is the President’s announcement that there will be no “international component” in any “investigation” of the civil war, or the alleged war crimes committed therein, which seem to be evidenced by the multiple videos sent to this programme in the wake of the war’s aftermath. The second is …
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 10:34 am,
by eyeadmin
By Joseph E. Stiglitz. Sri Lanka has been deservedly praised for the progress it has made since the end of the war against the separatist Tamil Tigers in 2009. The economy has grown at an average annual rate of …
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 11:45 am,
by eyeadmin
It was a Sunday afternoon, and the 64-year-old Maithripala Sirisena was in no mood to relax. He had a series of meetings earlier. After his appointment with Frontline in a hall of his official residence sporting the portraits of Marx, Lenin and Mahatma Gandhi, the President had some more meetings scheduled for the day. He appeared relaxed during his interaction with this correspondent, which was originally …
Friday, January 22, 2016 10:12 am,
by eyeadmin
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday urged participants at a forum in Davos in Switzerland to base their operations in Sri Lanka to serve South Asia and beyond. Speaking at an investment forum held in Davos ahead of the World Economic Forum, the Prime Minister acknowledged that 2016 would be a difficult year globally but there would be bright spots and Sri Lanka would be one of …
Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:46 pm,
by eyeadmin
A seminar on “Constitutional models of power sharing, challenges and perspectives in multi ethnic societies” organized by Institute of Constitutional Studies in Collaboration with Fribourg University, Switzerland and the assistance of the Government of Switzerland took place on 18 January 2016 at the Public Library Auditorium, Jaffna. Addressing the event, the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran said Tamil Speaking people of the Northern and Eastern Provinces …
Monday, January 18, 2016 4:36 pm,
by eyeadmin
Sri Lanka’s domestic mechanism would be a Sri Lankan process with an international element, visiting British Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hugo Swire said today. Speaking of Sri Lanka’s commitment made in Geneva in September, Swire stated the government was amidst making several proposals for the mechanism, which were most likely to be reviewed and discussed with the United Nations High Commissioner …
Sunday, January 17, 2016 8:14 am,
by eyeadmin
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today said his government was ready to devolve power to minority Tamils under a new Constitution and vowed to bring to justice all perpetrators of war crimes committed towards the end of the country’s civil war. Wickremesinghe, in his address on the occasion of the Pongal festival in Jaffna, said more civilian lands will be freed from military control soon …
Saturday, January 16, 2016 6:48 am,
by eyeadmin
Foreign Office Minister for Asia Hugo Swire, who is on an official visit to Sri Lanka addressed the Council for Business with Britain alongside Sri Lanka’s Deputy Minister of State Enterprise Development, Eran Wickramaratne on 14 January 2016. In his address to the Council Mr Swire said ” improvement in relations is largely down to the positive developments we have seen in Sri Lanka over this remarkable …
Friday, January 15, 2016 7:44 am,
by eyeadmin
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