Courtesy RIA Novosti/Maksim Blinov The Authors of the report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’s office (OHCHR) strive to keep covering for the Kiev authorities, which are responsible for the deaths in Odessa, an official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich, states in his commentary on the publication of the OHCHR report […]

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චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම ‬The first thing we do,‭ ‬let’s kill all the lawyers.‭” Shakespeare    වටරැක විජිත නම් පුද්ගලයාගේ නීතීඥයා වන මෛත්‍රී ගුනරත්නට ලොකු ප්‍රශ්නයක් මතු විය. එය නම් මැජිස්ට්‍රෙට් විසින් නඩුවේ විත්තිකරු වන ගලබොඩ අත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන්ව චූදිත කූඩුවට නොදැමීම ය. විජිතගේ මානව හිමිකම් ගැන පෙනී ඉන්නා මේ මෛත්‍රී නඩුකාරයාගේ මානව හිමිකම පමණක් නොව ව්‍යවස්ථාගත […]

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Shenali D. Waduge Two factors played a crucial role in the dramatic outcome at Lords. Nuwan Pradeep and the UDRS. Nuwan Pradeep’s name figures as having won a reality show but he showed he knew more about cricket than most would give him credit for. He chose not to accept the LBW decision given by […]

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By Nalin de Silva Courtesy Island  The Parliament will vote this evening on the resolution by some MPs, which effectively demands not to allow the UNHRC committee appointed to “investigate comprehensively” to come to Sri Lanka. What is interesting is that Navi Pillai the outgoing commissioner is determined to get the committee to act before […]

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 By A. Abdul Aziz.  More than 33,000 people attendrd 3-day convention in Karlsruhe, Germany.  The three-day convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany concluded 15 June 2014 with a spiritually charged address by the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad about the importance of […]

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Sandasen Marasinghe and Disna Mudalige Courtesy The Daily News The motion brought against the proposed investigation by a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) panel to investigate into alleged war crimes was adopted with a massive majority of 134 votes in Parliament yesterday. Parliament debated the motion presented by Member of Parliament (UPFA) Janaka Bandara […]

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Chaminda Perera Courtesy The Daily News Certain groups in the country who want to steer the reconciliation process on a different course are trying to blow the incidents in Aluthgama out of proportion to give a wrong impression to the world, Defence Ministry spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said. He said a newspaper published in Jaffna […]

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