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Heavy Fighting 'kills 38' in the North Heavy fighting erupted near Vaunia FDL's Sri Lankan military say thirty eight people have been killed in the fighting in the north. Heavy fighting erupted near the Forward Defence Lines in Vaunia between the Government Forces and Tamil Tigers continued till Thursday evening, correspondent Dinasena Ratugamage said. A spokesman for Sri Lanka army told him more than 45 people from both the army and the LTTE were injured. According to the military 33 LTTE cadres were killed and 36 injured in the fighting and it has lost five soldiers and nine soldiers were injured. But LTTE claims it has killed 10 soldier…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State lawmakers are anticipating the day when self-driving vehicles navigate California's roads guided by radar and GPS systems instead of human hands on the steering wheel. The state Senate approved a bill Monday that would establish safety and performance standards for what are known as "autonomous" vehicles. SB1298 by Sen. Alex Padilla also would allow the self-guiding vehicles on streets and highways, as long as a licensed driver is aboard. The bill passed 37-0 and goes to the Assembly. Padilla, a Democrat from Los Angeles, says the vehicles can reduce accidents caused by human error. Nevada and Florida have enacted simila…

[TamilNet, September 03, 2006 13:32 GMT] Artillery shells, fired from LTTE controlled Nagarkovil, during the recent clashes off the Point-Pedro sea Friday night and Saturday morning, had targeted a Sri Lanka Army Intelligence Camp, located in Puloli, Point Pedro, sources in Jaffna said. Several artillery shells fired from Nagarkovil area Tiger positions fell inside the Pallappai SLA military intelligence camp in Puloli, Point Pedro during the early hours of Saturday, sources in Jaffna said. Casualty figures were not available. Two houses near the SLA camp were also hit. No civilian casualties were reported. Meanwhile, a cargo ship, carrying cement from So…

POSTED: 0346 GMT (1146 HKT), September 10, 2006 Adjust font size: CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's prime minister reaffirmed his nation's commitment to fighting terrorism Monday during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. "It was an attack on the values that the entire world holds in common," Howard, a staunch supporter of U.S. President George W. Bush, told a gathering at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra. Howard said the universal values of individual liberty and dignity as well as freedom of association, religion and thought would prevail. "In reaffirming our commitment to maintain th…

Take back Kachchatheevu: Indian Parliamentarians [TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 16:31 GMT] In a rare display of unity and concern, members of the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Indian Parliament), cutting across party lines, urged the Centre to take back the Kachchatheevu island from Sri Lanka in the wake of continued killing and arrests of Indian fishermen by the Sri Lanka Navy. This is the first time when the demand to immediately take back the Kachchatheevu island has been made at the national level. The issue of Indian fishermen being repeatedly attacked by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) was raised by Congress MP V. Narayanasamy during question hour. He sai…

Anton Balasingham 1938 - December 14, 2006 Journalist who became the chief strategist and negotiator of the Tamil Tigers in their struggle for autonomy Anton Balasingham provided the intellectual framework for the violence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He was the brains behind the brawn, someone the leadership could turn to for ideological guidance, philosophical justification and political explanation while the killing went on. A forlorn-faced man, ill with a transplanted kidney, he travelled to devastated northern Sri Lanka in 2002 to act as the rebels’ negotiator in peace talks brokered by Norway. The Tigers vainly asked India to host the …

Sri Lanka's chief negotiator Nimal Siripala de Silva © enters the Peace Hall at the Bossey's Castle in Bogis-Bossey, near Geneva. Sri Lanka's warring parties ended a three-year deadlock in peace efforts by meeting at a peaceful Swiss chateau, but their ice-breaking talks got off to a rocky start(AFP/Christophe Bosset) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/0...ccsdsyl4_photo1 Tamil Tiger rebel group chief negotiator Anton Balasingham (L), and Adele Balasingam © are pictured at the Bossey's Castle in Bogis-Bossey, near Geneva. Sri Lanka's warring parties ended a three-year deadlock in peace efforts by meeting at a peaceful Swiss chateau, but their ice-break…

Experts say AI scams are on the rise as criminals use voice cloning, phishing and technologies like ChatGPT to trick people By Tom Williams Posted 8h ago8 hours ago, updated 6h ago6 hours ago Artificial intelligence is getting better at replicating a person's voice and generating coherent conversation.(Reuters: Philippe Wojazer) arlier this year Microsoft revealed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system which could recreate a person's voice after listening to them speak for only three seconds. It was a sign of just how quickly AI could be used to convincingly replicate a key pi…

Justice Wigneswaran should apologize to Tamil Nadu Tamils; TNA should pick another CM candidate, says Tamils for Obama. Issuing a statement Tamils for Obama says; “Mr. Wigneswaran lives in Colombo and has lived there all his life. He is out of touch with the experiences and wishes of the Tamils in northeast Sri Lanka. He was reluctant from the beginning take this office and we urge the TNA should pick someone closer to the northeastern Tamils.” Wigneswaran We publish below the statement in full; Justice Wigneswaran recently gave an exclusive interview to Hindustan Times. There are few things that came out during this interview that worry us. We would lik…

"Hundreds of Tigers" in Muttur - residents [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 19:18 GMT] Intense fighting is underway in Muttur in Trincomalee district as hundreds of heavily armed LTTE cadres who have taken control of the town centre laid siege to four Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camps on its periphery, residents said Wednesday evening. An effort by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) to land reinforcements on Muttur jetty was routed by LTTE fighters battling SLN troops at one end, reports said. Sri Lanka’s military insisted however that the Army was in control of the town and that the ‘desperate’ LTTE was retreating before its counter-attack. Continuing a dawn offensive out of the Samp…

Civilians flee as rivals say over 110 killed in Sri Lanka fighting. Some 3,000 civilians are fleeing as heavy artillery duels in Sri Lanka's restive northeast killed more than 110 people, including 41 civilians, according to rebels and security forces. The two sides said sporadic mortar bomb attacks and artillery fire continued throughout Sunday along the Trincomalee and Batticaloa district borders. The International Red Cross said more than 3,300 people were displaced Sunday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in a statement asked both the military and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to comply with international hu…

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Solheim to give up Sri Lanka role Mr Solheim at last month's Geneva talks Norway's peace envoy to Sri Lanka, Erik Solheim, has announced that he will soon give up the job. Mr Solheim told journalists in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, that he wanted to concentrate more on his job as overseas development minister. Mr Solheim has played a central role in moves to resolve Sri Lanka's civil war. Last month he brokered the first face-to-face talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels in three years. 'Above expectations' At the end of those talks, in Geneva, the Sri Lankan government and the Tigers agreed to curb violence and rene…

Internet failure hits two continents 1/31/2008 8:22:07 PM DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- - One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean. India's Internet bandwidth has been sliced in half, The Associated Press reported, leaving its lucrative outsourcing industry trying to reroute traffic to satellites and other cables through Asia. Reports say that Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain are also experiencing severe problems. Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose traffic uses a d…

(CNN) -- A refugee and mother of three young boys who is being held in indefinite detention in Australia has two days to convince the country's highest court why she should be freed. It's her last shot at overturning a government policy which was recently condemned by a United Nations Human Right Committee report as "cruel, inhuman and degrading." Failure will mean that Ranjini, a 34-year-old Sri Lankan refugee, will continue to be held without trial for the foreseeable future, for reasons that remain a national secret. And she's not the only one. "The core issues in Ranjini's case are common to more than 50 other refugees deemed a security risk and has serious impl…

Travel ban on Wanni civilians ~ Train services curtailed, more suspects rounded up in security crackdown By Chris Kamalendran The Government has barred the movement of civilians from the uncleared Wanni region, except for a few essential cases in a fresh attempt to prevent Tiger guerrillas from infiltrating the south and causing destruction. Civilians from the Wanni will be allowed to leave only for medical treatment, appointments with government departments or any official business. Brigadier Udaya Nanaykkara confirming the travel restrictions said the measure had been taken due to security reasons including the prevention of infiltration of LTTE cadres …

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COLOMBO: Ironically enough, the leader of the radicals in a Sri Lankan party which espouses the cause of the island’s Sinhalese community is a Tamil. According to the Daily Mirror, the recent attacks on the moderates in the Sinhalese-Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) were inspired by a senior Tamil leader of the party who had just arrived from Australia after a long exile. The paper did not name the leader, but quoted a dissident MP to say that it was this person who had swung the JVP’s alliance with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1988, when both the JVP and the LTTE were fighting Indian intervention in the island’s ethnic conflict through…

COLOMBO, June 17 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military said around 37 people were killed in a sea and land battle with Tamil Tiger rebels on Saturday, and three suspected rebels in diving gear were seized at a beach near the capital's airport. Sri Lankan government jets hit targets near the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) stronghold Kilinochchi overnight in retaliation for an attack on a bus earlier this week that killed 64, the worst incident since a 2002 truce halted two decades of war. The Tigers deny the bus attack. "Eight LTTE boats destroyed by naval fire," a military spokesman said, revising down an earlier figure of 11. "Six navy sailors died. We have…

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Bahrain fire kills 16 Indians --------------------------------- Sunday, July 30, 2006 (Manama): At least 16 Indians were killed and seven others injured when a major fire broke out in a building housing over 200 workers in Bahrain early today. The incident, apparently caused by a short circuit, took place in Gudabiya area when there were 218 people in the camp, mostly Indians. However, workers claimed that there were over 350 Indians in the building. The seven injured were being treated in a hospital for burns they received in the fire. Indian Ambassador to Bahrain Balakrishan Shetty said that most of the 16 workers killed were from Tamil …

By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, June 10 (Reuters) - A little known Sri Lankan rebel group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for recent bomb attacks on transport vehicles as revenge for what it said were government attacks and aerial bombings on innocent Tamil civilians. The military has blamed Tamil Tiger rebels for a series of train and bus blasts in capital Colombo and central Sri Lanka in which at least 32 people were killed and over 100 wounded. "We want to claim that we are responsible for the bomb attacks on the transport vehicles and other attacks," Ellalan Force, which the military says is a Tiger-linked group, said in an e-mail to Reuters. The attack…

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