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“I remember my past and I feel that I haven’t wasted these years,” he said
Dharmsala: The Dalai Lama celebrated his 75th birthday Tuesday with hundreds of cheering followers in this northern Indian town where he has been living in exile since he fled Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959.
Looking at posters depicting his life as [...]

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced plans to create a refugee processing centre in East Timor.
Under the plan people seeking asylum in Australia would be housed in the centre while their credentials were checked.
Ms Gillard said the move was aimed at thwarting traffickers and that talks with East Timor’s President Jose Ramos Horta and [...]

 Kolkata:  All police stations and CRPF camps in the three Maoist-hit districts of West Bengal have been put on high alert and Railway Protection Force has been asked to keep vigil on trains and tracks ahead of tomorrow’s 48-hour Bharat bandh called by ultras.
“Security has been beefed up in the Maoist-hit districts of West Midnapore, [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AHRC-STM-144-2010
July 6, 2010
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
ASIA: Women’s views on prevention of torture – Interview 32
Sri Lanka–A woman speaks out against bad policing and torture
Sarani Fernando is a lawyer living in Negombo. She has been active in human rights work for about ten years. She made following comments [...]

The government says it understands that those who are demonstrating outside the UN office in Colombo intend to continue with their protest until the UN system revisits the matter of the Panel on Sri Lanka.
A statement by the government information department said the government hopes that the UN complex in Colombo would continue to function [...]

Day 27: Uruguay vs. Netherlands, semifinals
Date and location:
 
Tuesday, July 6, Green Point Stadium, Cape Town  3:30pm (AT)/2:30pm (ET)/ 6.30pm GMT
To watch the match highlights:
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifaworldcup/watch/highlights/?ID=1538565794
To watch the full game:
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifaworldcup/watch/match61.html
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Srinagar: Army was tonight deployed on the streets of the city to enforce curfew imposed after the killing of three youths allegedly in firing by security forces.
The decision to deploy the army was taken late tonight in view of the fact that adequate police personnel were not available to deal with the situation as they [...]

The UN office in Colombo has been temporarily closed and the UN staff has been advised to work from home tomorrow as a result of the tense situation which developed outside the UN office today, UN sources told Daily Mirror online.
UN sources said that instructions to work from home was issued to the UN staff [...]

Day 27: Uruguay vs. Netherlands, semifinals
Date and location
 
Tuesday, July 6, Green Point Stadium, Cape Town  3:30pm (AT)/6 Jul 2:30pm (ET)/ 6.30pm GMT
What’s at stake
A berth in the World Cup final against the winner of Germany-Spain, to be contested in Soccer City in Johannesburg on July 11. Loser drops to the third-place game against the loser [...]

தமிழர்களின் “தூக்கத்திலும்”, “துக்கத்திலும்” சிங்களம் விழித்துக்கொள்கின்றது… அருகன். – பாகம்3
ஏற்கனவே இரு பாகங்களை வாசித்த பலர் அடுத்த பாகத்தின் எதிர்பார்ப்பிலும், இதன் போக்கு எத்தகைய உண்மை பொதிந்துள்ளது என இன்னொரு சாராரும், வழமைபோல் இவருடைய ஆக்கத்தில் வெளிவருகின்ற முற்போக்கு கருத்துக்கள் இதில் வெளிவருமா என்று சில அரசியல் நகர்வாளர்களும், விவாதத்திற்கே என்று இன்னொரு  சிலரும் …, சஞ்சரிக்கத்தான் போகின்றனர்… இது ஒருபுறம் இருக்க, பேரறிஞர் ஐயா சிவத்தம்பியைப்பற்றி ஒரு சம்பவத்தை பதித்தாகவே ண்டும் … காரணம் “கடந்த [...]

COLOMBO: Police on Tuesday clashed with protesters led by a Sri Lanka cabinet minister who vowed to besiege the U.N. office until Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dissolves a panel advising him on possible war crimes.
Sri Lanka’s government is furious at Ban’s appointment of the three-member panel on June 22, saying it is a violation of its [...]

Posted on August 02, 2009
At the felicitation ceremony to mark Desmond Fernando’s 50 years at the Bar, Chief Justice Asoka De Silva said, in an era when public spiritedness is waning, the frontline civil rights activist’s illustrious career was in line with the finest traditions of the noble legal profession. He called Mr. Fernando a [...]

NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka’s legendary spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, the highest wicket-taker in Tests and ODIs, will retire from international cricket after the first Test against India in Galle starting July 18.
Muralitharan, who currently leads the wicket tally in Test and ODIs, will not play any international cricket but said he would be available for the [...]

Today UNP members showed a united front in protest against Mahinda Rajapaksa’s proposed constitutional changes regarding Presidential term limits. They held placards asking people not to destroy democracy for the sake of a family. This comes on the day that UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe received proposals to reform the party itself and he protested next [...]

NEW DELHI: As a special gesture, the world’s largest aircraft, Airbus A-380, belonging to the premier UAE carrier Emirates, will arrive at the newly-built Terminal-3 of the IGI Airport here on July 15.
The 517-seater superjumbo will operate flight EK-516 on the Dubai-Delhi route to celebrate the launch of T-3 as a one-time gesture by the [...]

Foreign Secretary Romesh Jayasinghe arrived outside the UN office in Colombo a short while ago and was seen being escorted by two representatives of the NFF inside the UN building to hold discussions with the UN.
Before enterring the UN office, Jayasinghe was seen having discussions with Minister Wimal Weerawansa amidst the large number of protestors [...]

France already bans Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols in schools
Paris: A French bill to ban full-face veils worn by Muslim women will go to parliament on Tuesday, bringing closer a measure which critics argue is hard to enforce and may be unconstitutional.
Supporters of a ban on full-face veils in France, home to the European [...]

After day’s of calm, fresh violence erupted in Srinagar leaving two persons dead following which indefinite curfew was clamped in the city on Tuesday.
One person was killed when security personnel allegedly opened fire at a stone-pelting mob protesting the death of a man after falling into a drain during a demonstration in Batmaloo area of [...]

Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday told Parliament that Deputy Highways Minister Mervyn Silva has ganged up with business tycoon Maharaja to end his life.
“Minister Mervyn Silva has joined forces with Maharaja to kill me,” Wickremesinghe said.
“When the vote on the second rading of the Budget was taken I was attacked with a bottle of water [...]

Swiss branch of People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) remembered fallen comrades, civilians and for all those who scarified their lives in the Eelam struggle.

“We have been receiving complaints from states like Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh,” said Ravi Kant
NEW DELHI: Khap-sanctioned honour killings in north India may have hogged all the headlines but such sordid incidents have been reported from all over the country, a recent study has concluded.
While there has been a spate of incidents [...]

Maharashtra may be ruled by a Congress-led coalition but the effects of the nationwide agitation called by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against the fuel price hike had its worst effects in the state and its financial capital Mumbai.
With the BJP, Shiv Sena, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Republican Party of India (RPI) and Samajwadi Party [...]

Relieving pressure on overcrowded national prisons by employing convicts as laborers at Chinese-run projects in the developing world is a novel strategy China has adopted — an approach that is certain to create new backlashes against Chinese businesses overseas, besides highlighting the country’s egregious human-rights record.
In addition to being the world’s biggest executioner, China has [...]