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U.N. rights chief slams abuses in Sri Lanka, Iran
Reuters,
March 4.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Human rights abuses in Sri Lanka are damaging prospects for reconciliation after 25 years of civil war and a violent crackdown on dissent in Iran is deeply worrying, the top U.N. human rights official said on Thursday.
Repeating her call for an independent investigation into war crimes allegations in Sri Lanka, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the U.N.'s Human Rights Council she was singling out outstanding cases in different countries.
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Published: Thu Mar 4 11:50:39 EST 2010
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Nirupama Rao to visit Lanka with political settlement in mind
HT,
March 4.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is expected in Colombo on Saturday evening for a three-day visit to push for a political settlement of the vexed ethnic issue between the Sinhalese and Tamils. She is also expected to urge for the early resettlement of the Tamils displaced in the 26-year-long war between government troops and Tigers, which ended in May, 2009.
Rao, according to a foreign ministry statement here, is coming to Colombo on the invitation of the Sri Lankan government.
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Published: Thu Mar 4 11:52:55 EST 2010
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Sri Lanka shrs up from over 1-wk low on local buying
Reuters,
March 4.
COLOMBO, March 4 - Sri Lankan shares recovered from a more-than-one-week low on Thursday led by a surge in local buying on hopes the country could reduce its budget deficit from an eight-year high after IMF delayed a loan on fiscal concerns.
The All-Share Price Index <.CSE> of the Colombo Stock Exchange closed 0.84 percent or 31.82 points up at 3805.85. It hit a record high of 3847.18 points on Tuesday.
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Published: Thu Mar 4 11:54:07 EST 2010
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