Sri Lanka police fire tear gas on student protesters outside parliament
Issued on: 06/05/2022 – 14:45 Police again fired tear gas and water cannon at students trying to storm Sri Lanka’s parliament Friday as the country...
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Pakistan sentences six men to death for lynching Sri Lankan over ‘blasphemy’
Issued on: 18/04/2022 – 22:51 A Pakistan court Monday sentenced six men to death and dozens more to jail terms ranging from two years to...
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Sri Lanka PM pleads for ‘patience’ as protests against his government mount
Issued on: 12/04/2022 – 04:45 Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa pleaded for “patience” Monday as thousands continued to take to the streets to protest...
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Tens of thousands march against beleaguered Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa
Issued on: 09/04/2022 – 15:44 Tens of thousands marched on beleaguered Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office on Saturday, in the biggest protest to date...
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Sri Lankan president asks opposition to join unity govt amid economic crisis
Issued on: 04/04/2022 – 08:47Modified: 04/04/2022 – 08:49 Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called for a unity government on Monday to deal with the country’s...
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Sri Lanka’s cabinet ministers resign amid protests, social media ban
Issued on: 03/04/2022 – 22:03 Sri Lanka’s entire cabinet aside from the president and his sibling prime minister resigned from their posts Sunday as the...
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Sri Lankan opposition lawmakers defy curfew to stage protest amid economic crisis
Issued on: 03/04/2022 – 10:42 Armed troops in Sri Lanka blocked a Sunday opposition protest march staged in defiance of an emergency curfew to protest...
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Sri Lankan security forces deployed in capital after a day of protests, unrest
Issued on: 01/04/2022 – 05:53 Security forces were deployed across the Sri Lankan capital on Friday after protesters tried to storm the president’s home in...
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Wounds of Sri Lanka’s civil war remain impossible to heal
Issued on: 11/03/2022 – 15:43 In Sri Lanka, 13 years after the end of the civil war with the Tamil Tigers that lasted a quarter...