Sri Lanka violence prompts security measures

(aljazeera)Police commandos patrol suburb of Colombo after attacks on minority Muslim businesses by Sinhala Buddhist hardliners. Elite police commandos are patrolling a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital after hundreds of Buddhist hardliners torched a Muslim-owned business in...

Muslim warehouse attacked in Sri Lanka

Buddhist monks were filmed throwing stones at the storage centre of popular garment chain Fashion Bug in a suburb of the capital on Thursday night.The attacks were organized as part of a campaign by Buddhist groups against the lifestyles of Muslims.Five or six people were...

Camel Battle 2 Targets Muslim Brotherhood Outside Itehadia.

At the most critical moment of the Egyptian people’s revolution against former President Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and others in Cairo’s Tahrir Square managed to fend off paid thuggery against the revolutionaries in what is known in the media as the...

FJP Statement on Assassination of Qassam Comander.

The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) strongly condemns the assassination by Israeli occupation forces of Qassam commander Ahmed Jaabari, a crime which should see a fast Arab and international response to stop a wave of similarly bloody massacres against the Palestinian people...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez slammed Israel's bombing in Gaza

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday slammed Israel's bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip as an act of savagery against the Palestinians."Another savage aggression against the Gaza Strip has begun. Once again, the state of Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip," Chavez told...

VIP vehicle injures two students

wo students of Dharmapala Vidyalaya, Pannipitiya were injured following an accident involved in a back-up vehicle of a Ministerial convoy at Moraketiya Junction in Pannipitiya today, police said.The injured students were admitted to the Kalubowila Teaching Hospital and Sri...

Pakistani Girl shot by TalibanCan Recover, Doctors say

A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban has every chance of making a "good recovery", British doctors said on Monday as 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai arrived at a hospital in central England for treatment of her severe wounds.Yousufzai, who was shot for...

Hashan Tillakaratne stands by match-fixing allegations

Former Sri Lanka captain Hashan Tillakaratne has vowed to reveal full details of match-fixing that he alleges took place during his career. Tillakaratne and ex-team-mate Arjuna Ranatunga claim fixing has been common in Sri Lankan cricket since 1992. The Sri Lanka Cricket...

Did US Violate Intl Laws? Prime Minister D.M Jayaratne

Prime Minister D.M Jayaratne yesterday questioned into whether the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US forces in Pakistan was a violation of International laws. “How can another country enter another sovereign state to kill a person on an order? We never ordered to kill...

Only Sarath Fonseka could answer Moon's questions -Former CJ

There aren’t any criminal charges in the report by the UN. What exists in it is only to have an impartial inquiry(Lanka-e-News 27.April.2011, 6.20PM) The report presented by Ban Ki-moon’s ‘Panel of Experts’ could be answered by the Army. However, such inquiries cannot...

Minister’s henchmen have assaulted a Doctor

 A relative of a politician of a prominent Minister of the Govt. and a senior officer of the politician had assaulted a Doctor of Lahugala , Ampara district on 27th morning at about 10.00. While this lady Doctor was delivering a lecture, this hooligan relative of the...