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CES provides a first glimpse at the future. Pretty much all of the tech giants attend the vast Vegas expo - either to unveil new products or to clinch deals behind the scene. But in recent years it's been start-ups that have had many of the most eye-arresting and sensational reveals. There are more at this year's show than ever before, thanks in part to crowdfunding. They now have to convince retailers - hunting through the halls for the next bestsellers - that the promise of their concept videos has been delivered upon. Jump media player Media player help …

The pilot snoozing in the business cabin made a passenger feel "unsafe" / Dawn/Twitter A business class passenger who noticed the snoozing pilot claimed he felt "unsafe" Pakistan International Airlines has come under fire after a pilot on a flight to London was caught napping in the business class cabin while his first officer and a “trainee” flew the plane. A concerned passenger snapped a photo of the snoozing pilot, Amir Akhtar Hashmi, and complained to cabin crew. The purser’s report, shared with Pakistani newspaper Dawn, said that the passenger did not “feel safe” while the captain was asleep nearby. “It had been explained that two other crew me…

09 January 2014 After having caused massive deaths and disappearances on the Tamil civilian population during the times of war, the Sri Lankan State now continues to commit acts of structural genocide in the Tamil land. This aims at causing demographic and identity change, ethnic subordination and dilution of Tamils political power, the Bishop of Mannaar Rt. Rev. Dr. Rayappu Joseph told the visiting US diplomat on Wednesday. The visiting delegation was primarily interested in the details of the ‘war crimes’ during the final months of the war, according to Mannaar Bishop. Mr Rapp was told that an international investigation was necessary, not to punish any individual, …

This Tory Donor Was Secretly Filmed Dropping Cash-Stuffed Rucksacks At Post Offices BuzzFeed News followed three bagmen from Lycamobile as they made “deeply suspicious” six-figure daily cash deposits at the Post Office. posted on Oct. 5, 2015, at 6:57 p.m. Getty / i-images / Lynzy Billing / Sian Butcher / BuzzFeed One of the Conservative party’s biggest corporate donors, Lycamobile, is facing serious questions over its finances after three bagmen were secretly filmed dropping off rucksacks stuffed with hundreds of thousands of pounds twice a day at Post Offices across London. A five-month investigation by BuzzFeed News has revealed that the Lyca telecoms group dep…

Press releases 14 November 2012 Sri Lanka: How UN failed during Sri Lanka’s armed conflict The UN failed to protect civilians during Sri Lanka’s armed conflict according its own report, released today, prompting Amnesty International to renew its call for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE). The Report of the UN Secretary-General’s Internal Review Panel on United Nations Action in Sri Lanka, submitted to Ban Ki-moon and made public today, offers a strong indictment of the UN’s response to Sri Lanka’s armed conflict. It deals with a period of conflict in Sri Lanka when very grave violations of …

Is $33 Billion in U.S. Funding to Ukraine Going To Nazi's? The Biden Administration is asking for an additional $33 Billion dollars for Ukraine, for weapons and armored vehicles, but its time someone tells the truth about where this money is really going, to some of the worst people in the world, in this case, actual Nazi's.

By Sonali Samarasinghe The telephone threat made by President Mahinda Rajapakse to the Editor, The Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge and the ensuing furore last week stunned diplomats and shocked civil society. The threat issued personally to the Editor by the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in gutter language was based on some gossip that had reached the ear of Rajapakse that an article had been published regarding a disastrous visit made by the President and First Lady Shiranthi to the famous Guruvayur temple in Kerala. It was a visit he feared would tarnish his image as a Sinhala leader and devout…

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INTERNATIONAL SEBASTIAN DERUNGS / AFP / GETTY IMAGES Spy cables reveal Sri Lanka hyped up Tamil Tiger postwar threat Exclusive: Sri Lanka played up concerns of LTTE regrouping in South Africa despite contrary intelligence report by Jyoti Thottam In November 2010, a Sri Lankan member of Parliament expressed his dismay when a small statue of a leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was erected on private property in a Paris suburb. It was an alarming sign, said Sarath Weerasekara, a retired rear admiral in the Sri Lankan navy, that the LTTE, an armed separatist group that Sri Lanka defeated decisively in 2009, might be regrouping in oth…

'Karuna' threatens political parties Leaflets distributed in the east has threatened people not to support Tamil parties A Tamil political party in Sri Lanka has expressed optimism that differences with the breakaway LTTE group would be resolved through dialogue. Leader of PLOTE, Dharmalingam Siddharthan, told BBC Sandeshaya that the party would be allowed to carry on political work in the east despite threats allegedly made by the Karuna group. Leaflets distributed in Batticaloa in the name of Chennan Force has threatened people not to support TNA, TULF, EPDP, PLOTE and EPRLF political parties. Karuna group denies "If this warning is ne…

On Wednesday, on the Today show, TIME magazine editor Edward Felsenthal unveiled the TIME Person of the Year. And it is none other than sixteen-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg. Greta, who suffers from Asperger's, has risen as an important person in international climate crisis activism after she took time off school in 2018 to protest outside the Swedish Parliament, inspiring others to join her cause. Each year, TIME magazine does a feature on some of the most influential people, groups, movements or even ideas that have made an impact in that year. Last year's cover had 'The Guardians', journalists who had been targeted for their work. In 201…

[size=4]Le mercredi 10 octobre 2012 restera une journée historique pour les défenseurs de la cause tamoule ! Après des années de protestation pour dénoncer les viols et massacres à répétition de civils tamouls, une délégation d’une quarantaine de Tamouls a été reçue pour la première fois à l’Assemblée Nationale. C’est sous l’impulsion de Marie-George Buffet, députée de la quatrième circonscription de Seine-Saint-Denis, et du Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO), qu’a pu se tenir cette rencontre dans une des salles du Palais Bourbon. Marie-George Buffet a profité de cette rencontre pour annoncer la mise en place d’un groupe d’étude sur la situation des Tamouls du Sri …

[size=5]The Heroes Day observed by Eezham Tamils on 27 November to remember their fallen fighters, falls on a full moon day this year, coinciding with the Kaarthikai festival of lights observed by Tamils since ancient times. Sri Lanka that has made a practice of banning even routine religious observations in the temples of the occupied country of Eezham Tamils on the Heroes Day, dares this year to forbid the Kaarthikai festival observations too. Occupying Sri Lanka’s practice of banning temple rituals, including toll of bells on the Heroes Day, started first in Nov 2009, while New Delhi’s Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna was visiting Jaffna. New Zealand Tamils appeal to the …

The contemporary novel has become something of a showboat. It hinges more than ever on a grand concept, a spectacle to drive it: starving children battling in a post-apocalyptic landscape, a ripped-from-the-headlines murder scheme ever so slightly rejiggered to avoid exploitation. Given this, any astute reader or writer could be forgiven for believing the contemporary novel well-suited for tackling the divisiveness and violence of Sri Lanka’s recent history. The brutal quarter-century war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lankan government left thousands dead, dislocated and dispossessed. What could be meatier? After all, the novel’s inherent…

Unprecedented carnage, SLA turns firepower on civilian zone [TamilNet, Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 05:42 GMT] Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Wednesday morning turned its artillery, mortar, 40 mm cannon, Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) and gunfire ranging from 50 caliber machine guns to LMG fire into the so-called safety zone, causing a carnage within a short period of time between 7:40 and 10:40 a.m. killing and maiming hundreds of civilians, according to the latest update by TamilNet correspondent in Vanni reporting from the area under attack. Civilians were struggling to transport the wounded to the hospital and many of the injured were lying along the roadside as gunfire and ar…

Interview with Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 27/09/2013 Reporter: Emma Alberici The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, joins Lateline live from New York to discuss her recent week-long fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka. EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Our guest tonight is Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She was born and raised in South Africa where she rose to become the first non-white female judge of the high court. She's also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and president of the International Criminal Tribunal fo…

Colombo gets support from US, LTTE from TN PK Balachandran Colombo, January 7, 2006|17:11 IST With the ceasefire in Sri Lanka in danger of being broken, the government and the LTTE are seriously looking for support from overseas for their respective cases. While the Rajapaksa regime seems to have the backing of the United States, the LTTE is counting on increasing support across the Palk Strait in Tamil Nadu. The LTTE is also reasonably sure that New Delhi will remain neutral thanks to the influence of Tamil Nadu. This was stated recently by the LTTE's ideologue, KV Balakumaran, in an interview to the Voice of Tigers radio. Rice's assurance to…

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…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels broke through military defences in the island's far north and overran army bunkers on Saturday, truce monitors said, as the fiercest fighting since a 2002 truce spread. The Tigers and army exchanged intense artillery fire and government jets bombed near the rebels' forward defence lines in the northern Jaffna peninsula, residents said, as thousands of civilians fled to churches. The military said 27 of its personnel were killed and 80 injured, and estimated it killed more than 150 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels. It said it sank five Sea Tiger boats as they attacked army posts on t…

Pro SL Army website says... Take out "white tiger" observers from the mission! - JVP on SLMM [31st August 2006 - 13:30 S.L.T] The JVP in a communique issued to the media on the statement made by the outgoing Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission chief Ulf Henricson says that the SLMM has once again proved of their favoritism towards the Tigers. The communique adds even the judicial reports on the enquiry into the deaths of 17 employees of a non-government organisation has proved that the incident occurred in Muttur area which was under terrorist attack at the time. It should be mentioned that not only the 17 employees of the NGO but nearly 100 Muslim civilian…

http://washingtontimes.com/specialreport/2...6747r_page2.htm Thefts of U.S. technology boost China's weaponry By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 27, 2005 Part I: Chinese dragon awakens Second of two parts. China is stepping up its overt and covert efforts to gather intelligence and technology in the United States, and the activities have boosted Beijing's plans to rapidly produce advanced-weapons systems. "I think you see it where something that would normally take 10 years to develop takes them two or three," said David Szady, chief of FBI counterintelligence operations. He said the Chinese are prolific…

By Adam J. Hebert, Senior Editor The Air Force wants to be able to strike mobile and emerging targets in fewer than 10 minutes so that such targets will have no sanctuary from US airpower. Cutting the time needed to strike such targets, known as time critical or time sensitive targets, has been one of Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper’s top priorities. It factored into the decisions to arm Predator unmanned aerial vehicles with Army Hellfire missiles and to establish a high-level warfighting integration office at the Pentagon. Three years ago, while still commander of Air Combat Command, Jumper raised the bar for destruction of emerging targets when he s…

12-Year-Old Girl Charged After Police Chase| Is This Kid Shenanigans or Should She Be Charged? 12-Year-Old Girl Charged After Police Chase A 12-year-old girl and her 14-year-old friend allegedly stole a family member’s car and took police officers on a dangerous car chase through Kitchener, Ontario. According to police, an officer tried an attempt to pull the vehicle over but the young driver refused to stop. The officer continued following with its lights and sirens on. Eventually more police cruisers joined to help in putting a halt to the car chase. When officers finally managed to stop the vehicle, they were surprised to find a 12-year-old gi…

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A roadside bomb tore through a NATO vehicle on Wednesday, killing six soldiers and their Afghan interpreter in a southern Afghan region that has recently seen heavy fighting, a NATO statement said. ADVERTISEMENT NATO did not release the soldiers' nationalities or the location of the attack, but Afghan police said it happened in Kandahar province's Zhari district. The majority of the troops in Kandahar are Canadian. Canadian Defense Department spokeswoman Sarah Kavanagh said had no information on the incident. The attack was the deadliest against foreign troops in Afghanistan since May 13, when seven troops were killed — fiv…

குர்திஷ் பிரிவினைவாத குழுவை பயங்கரவாதிகள் பட்டியலில் இருந்து நீக்க ஜரோபிய நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவு........ EU-Hof haalt PKK van EU-terreurlijst Uitgegeven: 3 april 2008 12:05 LUXEMBURG - Het Europees Hof van Justitie heeft de Koerdische Arbeiderspartij PKK geschrapt van de Europese lijst van terroristische organisaties. Bij de plaatsing op de lijst in 2002 ontbrak namelijk een opgave van redenen. Dat oordeelde het hof donderdag in een zaak die de PKK had aangespannen tegen de Europese Unie. Naar verwachting zal de EU de procedurele fout direct herstellen door een nieuw besluit. Het Hof haalde eerder om dezelfde formele reden een groep Iraanse vr…