Sri Lanka court blocks state deportation of Tamils
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Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the government to stop evicting minority ethnic Tamils from the capital a day after police deported hundreds to the island's war-torn north, a civil rights lawyer said.
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Recovery efforts were under way in eastern Sri Lanka after overloaded boats carrying refugees from the rebel-held Vakarai region capsized.  At least 13 people are feared drowned, the BBC reported.  Fighting in the area in recent weeks has displaced tens of thousands of people.
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A Japanese court dismissed a request to halt deportation proceedings against fugitive chess legend Bobby Fischer, his lawyers said Friday.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s tour of New Zealand has finally been postponed to allow the tourists to return home after both countries&#39; cricket boards agreed to reschedule the series.
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Sri Lanka evicted hundreds of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital on Thursday and sent them back to the war-torn north citing security concerns, as the military battled Tamil Tiger rebels in the east.
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A Philippine court on Monday barred the country's police and military from arresting working journalists in a case that arose from a row over media access.
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Canada's Supreme Court rejects a law allowing the detention and deportation of foreign-born terror suspects.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 8 -- Sri Lanka's highest court ordered police on Friday to stop expelling ethnic Tamils from the capital, a lawyer said, after rights groups warned that the recent removal of hundreds of Tamils could further fuel a 24-year ethnic separatist conflict.
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A Pakistani court has directed the government not to deport a 12-year-old Scottish girl at the centre of a custody row between her parents.
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Sri Lanka qualified for the final of a three-nation one-day tournament today after their match with Zimbabwe was called off due to overnight rain.
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Zambia's Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the deportation of a British writer who described President Levy Mwanawasa as a "fool", saying the punishment sought was "disproportionate" to the offence.
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Japan issued a deportation order today against former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted in the United States for defying sanctions, but his lawyer immediately filed an appeal, blocking the move.
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A court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the extradition of a Dutch citizen charged with terror attacks on American troops in his native Iraq in 2003.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's office has interfered with a commission probing civil war rights abuses and murders that include some blamed on state security forces, international observers said on Wednesday.
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A regional court in Italy rules that the deportation of a controversial Senegalese imam was illegal.
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Two Indonesians were jailed on Tuesday over a people-smuggling operation to bring 83 Sri Lankans into Australia, court officials said.
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KANNAPURAM EAST, Sri Lanka  - Tamil farmer Sabaratnam Somaratnam abandoned his home in east Sri Lanka fearing it might be shelled.