The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has again asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to not condone the human right abuses committed by the Sri Lankan government by providing the funding. The Sri Lankan govenrment...
"The last " Nine staff were originally arrested after the disputed re-election of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the street protests that followed. Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said he is "very glad" at news of the release of Hossein Rassam but said the arrests on...
" by Mel Gunasekera Mel Gunasekera COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka said Wednesday it was confident of averting an international probe into alleged war crimes committed during its blistering...
" Blair at least walked the walk. But this foreign secretary can offer only feelgood gestures of episcopal concern I hope President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka takes time out today to comment on the resignation of Mr...
" Sri Lanka is shaped like a teardrop below southern India. People there are weeping at the dramatic events of this week. But, contrary to what our Foreign Secretary David Miliband and the commentariat of the BBC...
" UN Security Council refuses to discuss killing in Sri Lanka New York, May 12 : Top diplomats from Britain and France were rebuffed Monday when some UN Security Council members refused their request to...
Defence Sectary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday(Apr 29), rejected visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband's call for a ceasefire, and told him that the government would not stop its war on terror until the LTTE was crushed and its leader Prabhakaran captured, dead or...
"China welcomes UK Tibet decision Zhu Weiqun speaks on Tibet A senior Chinese official has welcomed the UK's decision to recognise Beijing's direct rule over...
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UPDATE: 8:35PM PSTThe UN is going to send a supply of food and aid into the Congo." The convoy is to leave the city of Goma and move into territory controlled by renegade Gen Laurent Nkunda's forces. " The UK has...
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More drama from the Labour Party conference in the UK, as Gordon Brown tries to save his job and David Milliband tries to convince the media that he is not gunning for it. Embarassingly, Milliband was overheard...
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Reports today in the UK claim that when British foreign secretary David Milliband phoned the Russian foreign minister to voice Britain's objections to Russia's actions in Georgia, the foreign secretary went on a profanity-laced tirade. If true, this kind of language would be...
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President Saakasvili opened the press conference with an impassioned speech that "Russian occupation cannot be sustained." At the live press conference ongoing tonight after meetings of foreign...
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Leading political analyst and commetator, Eamon McCann gives his usual perspicacious insight into the recent spats between the Blairites, Brownites and Milibandits. " Until last week, few members of the...
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In the face of furious loyal Brownite MP's, both Foreign Secretary and Health Minister Alan Milburn have been forced to deny they are involved in a machiavellian plot to depose of their leader. Milburn has...
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