Tag: Sri Lanka

The pretext for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch's prosecutorial intervention in international soccer is the use of the American financial system and occasional travel by its perpetrators. (AP Photo)Â

Dear Europe, you’re welcome. Again.

Washington Examiner · May 29, 2015 4:12 am

China's President Xi Jinping, left, waves to the gathering as he walks with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa upon arrival at the airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka backs China’s maritime ‘Silk Road’ plan

Bharatha Mallawarachi · September 16, 2014 4:46 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2013 file photo, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa speaks during a media briefing on the final day of the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa says he will not allow a U.N. panel investigating allegations of war crimes to visit Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa told foreign journalists on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 that he does not accept any investigation by the United Nations into allegations of abuses by his soldiers and the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels at the end of the country's civil war in 2009. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Sri Lanka won’t allow UN war crimes panel to visit

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 2:51 pm

If international agreements to curb greenhouse gas emissions resulted in keeping temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius -- as is the aim of climate talks scheduled for next year in Paris -- economic losses would hit just 2.5 percent per year by 2100. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Climate change could cut 9 percent from South Asian economies, study says

Zack Colman · August 19, 2014 12:48 pm

FILE - In this July 5, 2014 file photo, Pope Francis smiles as he arrives to give a mass in Campobasso, Italy, during his one day trip to the southern Italian region of Molise. The Vatican confirmed Tuesday, July 29 the dates for Pope Francis' second trip to Asia, a weeklong visit Jan. 12-19 to Sri Lanka and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope to visit Sri Lanka, Philippines Jan. 12-19

Washington Examiner · July 29, 2014 1:27 pm

Police officials escort Sampath Vidanapathirana, a ruling party politician, convicted in a murder and rape case at the High Court complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 18, 2014. A Sri Lankan court on Friday sentenced Vidanapathirana to 20 years in prison for killing a British tourist Khuram Sheikh and raping his Russian girlfriend more than two years ago. (AP Photo/S. Gayashan)

Sri Lankan politician jailed for killing Briton

Washington Examiner · July 18, 2014 2:11 pm

Sri Lanka bans NGO news conferences, releases

Sri Lanka bans NGO news conferences, releases

Bharatha Mallawarachi · July 9, 2014 10:03 am

Sri Lankans win temporary reprieve from Australia

Sri Lankans win temporary reprieve from Australia

Kristen Gelineau · July 8, 2014 1:22 pm

New UN rights probe intensifies pressure on SLanka

Matthew Pennington · June 30, 2014 1:01 am

A Sri Lankan Muslim man leans against a letter box as he waits out side a closed shop during a shut down protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Muslims have shut down their shops in Sri Lanka's capital to protest attacks by hard-line Buddhists on Muslims and are demanding the government punish those responsible for the violence. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Muslims close shops to protest Sri Lanka attacks

Bharatha Mallawarachi · June 19, 2014 12:45 pm

Sri Lankan Muslim clergy shout slogans during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The European Union expressed alarm Wednesday at recent violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka in which three people died and more than 50 were injured, and urged the government to ensure that the rule of law is upheld. Placards read, foreground, âWe Don't Need Another Black July", background in center, "Do Not Get Trapped in Nationalism". (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

EU alarmed by anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka

Bharatha Mallawarachi · June 18, 2014 1:12 pm

A Sri Lankan man stands in a house damaged by heavy rains in Mathugama, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Many people have died in Sri Lanka from two days of floods and mudslides triggered by unusually heavy monsoon rains, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Floods, mudslides kill 22 in Sri Lanka

Washington Examiner · June 3, 2014 3:14 pm