Sri Lanka eliminates term limits for presidency; many fear it will pave way to dictatorship

Sri Lanka removes term limits for presidency

Sri Lanka’s Parliament votes to eliminate 2-term limit for presidency

Sri Lanka removes 2-term limit for presidency

Sri Lanka’s Parliament debates constitutional amendment ending term limits for president

Sri Lanka debates ending term limits for president

Sri Lanka’s Parliament begins debating amendment to remove term limits for president

Sri Lanka debates ending president’s term limit

Doctors remove nails from Sri Lankan maid who said she was tortured by Saudi couple

Nails, needles removed from abused Sri Lankan maid

Doctors remove 19 nails from Sri Lankan maid who says she was tortured by Saudi couple

Nails extracted from abused Sri Lankan maid

Sri Lanka’s ex-army chief rejects court martial verdict, calls government ‘total dictatorship’

Ex-army chief calls Sri Lanka a ‘dictatorship’

Tamil organization says migrant boat had burial at sea

Tamil group: Man died on migrant ship

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A man died and was buried at sea last month as hundreds of ethnic Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka spent a grueling several months at sea in a cramped, rusting cargo ship, officials said Sunday.

Canada says Tamil migrants in fairly good condition after arriving in renovated ship

Canada: Tamil migrants in good condition

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from war-ravaged Sri Lanka spent a grueling three months at sea in a cramped, ramshackle cargo ship but arrived in fairly good condition, Canadian officials said Saturday.

Lawyer fears hundreds of Tamils from Sri Lanka seeking asylum in Canada may be traumatized

Tamils seeking asylum in Canada may be traumatized

Sri Lankan president approves former army chief’s dishonorable discharge

Sri Lankan president OKs ex-army chief’s discharge

Hundreds of Tamils from Sri Lanka seek asylum in Canada; government fears some are terrorists

Tamils cram on ship, seeking asylum in Canada

Tamil migrant ship docks off Canada’s West coast

Tamil migrant ship docks in Canada

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A rusting cargo ship crammed with hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka docked at a Canadian navy base on Friday after a grueling three-month journey.

Govt: Military court convicts former Sri Lanka army chief Fonseka, strips him of military rank

Sri Lankan military court convicts ex-army chief

Migrant ship that could be carrying Tamil Tigers nears Canada, will be intercepted

Tamil migrant ship nears Canada

TORONTO — Canadian authorities said Wednesday that they will intercept a ship of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka before it reaches the coast because the passengers may include people Canada considers terrorists.

Sri Lankan government-appointed commission to probe civil war begins public hearings

Sri Lanka war commission begins public hearings

Canada briefed on migrant ship headed its way that could be carrying Tamil Tigers

Canada briefed about migrant ship

TORONTO — Canada’s top security official said Monday he was getting regular briefings on a ship of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka that could be carrying terrorists.

Disorder engulfing Maldives heats up after attorney-general resigns, Supreme Court in limbo

Maldives high court in limbo amid political spats

Lawmakers say some 3,000 Sri Lanka war refugees evicted from villages by government

Sri Lanka evicts some war refugees from villages

Sri Lankan Cabinet minister ends 3-day fast protesting UN war crimes probe

Sri Lanka Cabinet minister ends 3-day protest fast

Sri Lankan minister continues hunger strike over UN probe after world body closes office

Sri Lankan minister continues fast over UN probe

UN chief shuts Sri Lanka office, recalls head coordinator after protests

UN chief shuts Sri Lanka office, recalls official

Sri Lankan minister begins hunger strike against UN probe on wartime abuses

Sri Lankan minister fasts against UN rights probe

Sri Lankan protesters vow hunger strike to force UN to halt wartime abuses probe

Sri Lankan protesters vow hunger strike against UN

Sri Lankan protesters press demands for UN to halt probe into alleged wartime abuses

Sri Lankan protesters continue sit-in against UN

Sri Lankan protesters besiege UN compound demanding halt to probe of alleged wartime abuses

Sri Lankan protesters besiege UN compound

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Protesters still are demonstrating outside the U.N. offices in Sri Lanka to force the world body to cancel its probe into alleged rights violations during the civil war.

Sri Lanka protesters lay siege to UN compound, trying to force body to abandon civil war probe

Sri Lanka protesters lay siege to UN compound

Sri Lankan protesters resume blockade of UN compound after police tried to free trapped staff

Sri Lanka police abort attempt to free UN workers

Sri Lanka police break protesters blockade of UN building, escort trapped workers out

Sri Lanka police break protesters’ blockade of UN

Protesters force UN workers to stay in office in Sri Lanka, demand probe of wartime abuses end

Sri Lankans protest at UN office over abuse probe

Protesters try to storm UN office in Sri Lanka, upset over probe of alleged wartime abuses

Sri Lankans try to storm UN office for abuse probe

Sri Lankan president meets Tamil leaders, promises political solution to ethnic conflict

Sri Lanka president meets Tamil political leaders

Russia, China and other G20 countries frustrating global human rights progress, Amnesty says

Amnesty: G20 frustrating human rights progress

Human Rights Watch cites new evidence on Sri Lanka’s wartime abuses, wants international probe

Group presents new evidence on abuses in Sri Lanka

Afghan militant representatives hold talks in the Maldives; gov’t says it’s not involved

Afghan militants holds talks in Maldives

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Representatives of an Afghan militant group are holding talks in the Maldives, officials said Thursday.

Official says Afghan government and Taliban hold talks in the Maldives

Maldives: Afghan govt, Taliban hold talks

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Maldives government official says that the Afghan government and the Taliban are meeting in the Indian Ocean archipelago for talks.

Rights group accuses Sri Lanka, Tamil rebels of war crimes at end of conflict

Rights group: Sri Lanka committed war crimes

Dissanayake Mudiyansalage Jayaratne sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister

Sri Lanka’s new prime minister sworn in

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Mahinda Rajapaksa has sworn in veteran politician Dissanayake Mudiyansalage Jayaratne as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister after his party’s landslide election victory.

Sri Lanka’s ruling party increases gains after revote, falls short of two-thirds majority

Sri Lanka ruling party increases gains in revote

Sri Lankan leader promises peace and development after election victory

Sri Lankan leader promises peace after poll win

Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition wins parliamentary elections

Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition wins elections

Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition wins parliamentary election

Sri Lanka’s ruling party wins election

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ruling coalition has won Sri Lanka’s first post-war parliamentary election, the election department said Friday.

State TV: Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition wins parliamentary election

State TV: Sri Lanka’s ruling party wins election

Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition appears heading to crushing victory in parliamentary poll

Sri Lanka ruling coalition heads for election win

Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition ahead in parliamentary elections, early results show

Ruling coalition leads in Sri Lankan elections

Protected by Comment Guard Pro