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Campaign-related violence escalated across Sri Lanka ahead of next week’s elections as President Mahinda Rajapakse fights an unexpectedly tough battle to remain in power,...
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Floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 14 people in Sri Lanka and driven 80,000 from their homes, police and...
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Sri Lanka’s president, under pressure from his main opponent in upcoming elections, on Tuesday promised a judicial inquiry into allegations that his troops killed...
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Sri Lanka’s ruling party was set for a purge Saturday after a senior minister declared he was challenging President Mahinda Rajapakse in snap elections...
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Sri Lanka’s main party of Buddhist monks announced Tuesday it was quitting President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government in protest at his failure to loosen his...
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A peacebroker accused of helping to fund Sri Lanka’s separatist war acknowledged Monday that Tamil rebels had been induced to engage in the peace...
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Sri Lanka on Saturday angrily rejected accusations by the UN rights chief that it was sabotaging a war crimes probe into the country’s brutal...
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Sniffer dogs were deployed Friday to search for mudslide victims in Sri Lanka as survivors said they had seen warning signs of the disaster,...
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Sniffer dogs were brought in Friday to join the search for bodies at a tea plantation in Sri Lanka, two days after a major...
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Heavy rains disrupted a massive search Thursday for scores of people feared buried in a landslide on a Sri Lankan tea estate, further dimming...