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Australia’s immigration minister will visit Colombo this week for talks on illegal immigration following international concern at his country’s handling of Sri Lankan asylum-seekers,...
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The UN expressed “profound concern” Thursday over reports that Australia was screening Sri Lankan asylum-seekers at sea and handing them over to Colombo, as...
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The main Muslim party in Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition Wednesday demanded a UN probe into one of the country’s worst-ever religious riots, as President...
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A Sri Lankan asylum-seeker has died after setting himself on fire while awaiting a visa decision in Australia, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said Monday,...
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Sri Lanka has detained a female British tourist for having a Buddha tattoo on her right arm and ordered her deportation, police said Tuesday....
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Sri Lanka’s ruling party won local elections, but with smaller than expected margins in a crucial mid-term test for President Mahinda Rajapakse, official results...
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Sri Lankan authorities halted excavations after recovering 81 skeletal remains from an unmarked mass grave atop an old burial ground in the island’s former...
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A Sri Lankan family has stumbled upon the remains of at least nine bodies buried in the garden of their home, police said Saturday,...
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The United Nations’ human rights chief has recommended an international investigation into war crimes committed in Sri Lanka during the final stages of its...
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Sri Lanka’s army led an orgy of indiscriminate killing at the climax of the island’s civil war, and has since tried to destroy evidence...