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We can’t despair, we can’t abandon things, says Sri Lanka’s R. Sampanthan Meera Srinivasan TNA’s R. Sampanthan | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sri Lanka’s seniormost politician on the government’s record on the political solution to the Tamil issue R. Sampanthan, leader of the Opposition in Sri Lanka’s Parliament, is also the country’s seniormost politician, having been in politics for more than six decades. In the January 2015 presidential poll, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) he leads backed the President Maithripala Sirisena–Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe combine that ousted former President Mahinda Rajapak…

White Supremacists Taking Ancestry Tests Aren't Happy About The Results NEO-NAZI PROTESTERS AT THE ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER ON APRIL 19, 2009 IN SKOKIE, ILLINOIS. SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES By Tom Hale Not too long ago, white nationalism was a fringe movement of isolated people. Now, it’s gained a very ugly new relevance. Tiki torches are lit, Twitter feeds are flared, and tempers are hot. Along with this misled reinterpretation of supposed "identity politics", we also live at a ti…

CIA Agent Who Grilled Saddam Hussein Claims ISIS Wouldn’t Be Around If The Dictator Was Still Alive Mischa Pearlman in NEWS It was 11 years ago today that Saddam Hussein was executed after the Iraqi Special Tribunal had convicted him of crimes against humanity - specifically for the murder of 148 Iraq Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, which was retribution after an assassination attempt against him. Now, thanks to the Chilcot report, we all know that Tony Blair lied about there being weapons of mass destruction. Many would also argue that George W Bush used 9/11 to further propel the country's military-industrial complex by wa…

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In Tamil Nadu, a book donation drive is underway to restock a Sri Lanka library set afire in 1981 The state government is collecting books in the Tamil language for the new Jaffna Public Library, a symbol of Sri Lanka’s Tamil cultural identity. The Jaffna Public Library was rebuilt in 1994 and opened to the public in 2003. | Adam Jones / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0 Tucked away in a corner of the Directorate of Public Libraries in Chennai are stacks of books in the Tamil language neatly tied up in bundles. The collection features the ancient Tamil grammar book Tolkappiyam, literary classics such as Kurunthogai and Pathupattu, and several c…

Syrian President Bashar Assad met with Russian President Vladimir Putin spent three hours discussing military operations in Syria and the fight against terrorism in the Middle East. Could the meeting in Sochi signify the end of the war?

Sirisena Blocking Gota’s Arrest President Maithripala Sirisena is sitting on the long-anticipated arrest of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and the former Secretary, Ministry of Defence and Urband Development, Colombo Telegraph learns. Gota at President’s nephew’s wedding | File photo The Attorney General in an unusual move has sought the approval of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Minister of Law and Order Sagala Ratnayaka to arrest Gotabaya Rajapaksa over allegations of misappropriatin…

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Putin Says Around 40,000 North Koreans Work in Russia, Casts Doubt on Efforts of Military Strike This combined photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) (KCNA via REUTERS) and Russia President Putin (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images) Russia President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a military strike against North Korea designed to destroy its nuclear and missile program might not succeed because Pyongyang could have hidden military facilities that nobody knows about. Putin, speaking at an energy forum in Moscow, made it clea…

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Krishanti Vignarajah launches campaign for Maryland governor Democrat Krishanti Vignarajah announces her candidacy for Maryland governor Tuesday in Woodlawn. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) WOODLAWN, Md. — Democrat Krishanti Vignarajah, a former policy director for first lady Michelle Obama, officially launched her campaign for governor Tuesday at the apartment complex outside Baltimore where she lived with her parents after the family fled Sri Lanka decades ago. “Before anything else, I was an immigrant and proud daughter of schoolteache…

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Family forced to pay extra $4,000 for new tickets after Air Canada bars them from flight 'A family of 5 is a no-go,' manager said, although plane had 8 empty seats Shanty Thivakaran, husband Thiva Maheswaran and their son Athiran on vacation in Sri Lanka. The family had to repurchase plane tickets after they weren't allowed on their original Air Canada flight. (Shanty Thivakaran) A Toronto family wants answers after Air Canada barred them from their flight, forcing them to spend an extra $4,000 on new tickets to take the same flight the following day. When CBC News asked Air Cana…

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INTERVIEW-Rescued sex slave writes to Indian PM with plea to free others "There were many girls like me there. I didn't see any of them escape or leave" By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI, Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 29-year-old Indian woman who was sold into sexual slavery as a teenager has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to rescue hundreds of thousands of other girls who are trapped in brothels and raped daily. In a two-page letter written in Hindi, the woman - who identifies herself as Tavi - described how she was duped and trafficked to a brothel in …

FEATURE-Sri Lanka's war widows trafficked as slaves to Gulf by Amantha Perera | @AmanthaP | Thomson Reuters Foundation Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:01 GMT "People who have not gone through a conflict will not understand how difficult it is to take care of young children on your own. We suffered during the war and we are suffering now" By Amantha Perera JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Aug 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Nathkulasinham Nesemalhar took a flight from Colombo to Muscat in March she believed the boarding pass she clutched in her hand was her golden ticket to a better life after decades of war where she lo…