Sri Lanka rights probe on path to failure: Experts
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A Sri Lankan probe into rights abuses blamed on security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels looks set to end in failure, international experts warned on Friday, as Amnesty International demanded an outside monitoring operation.
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The U.S. government's failure this week to win a conviction in a major case of alleged terrorism financing is a sign it may be targeting the wrong suspects and needs to rethink its prosecution strategy, legal experts say.
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U.N. human rights investigators criticized the United States on Thursday for failing to take steps to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison for terror suspects, which they say facilitates torture and violates international law.
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A presidential commission in Sri Lanka investigating human rights abuses is in danger of failing, observers say.
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Sports Minister Sunil Dutt says action will be taken after two weightlifters fail a drugs test at the Athens Olympics.
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Sri Lanka are hopeful of improving a dismal Test record in New Zealand when they meet in Christchurch.
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Truce monitors in Sri Lanka from European Union member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden must leave the country by September 1, a top Tamil Tiger rebel leader told AFP.
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Sri Lanka cricket officials will meet later on Monday to discuss whether they will continue with their tour of New Zealand after devastating tsunami waves killed about 4,500 people in the country, team officials said.
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Independent experts are to re-examine evidence from Northern Ireland's worst atrocity after the acquittal last month of the main suspect, the British-run province's police watchdog said Thursday.
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The latest failed attempt to revive peace talks is bad news for Sri Lanka's economy, already in trouble from high inflation, a foreign exchange crisis and a falling rupee.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger insurgency is threatening to resume armed struggles unless the government accepts the rebels&#39; blueprint for self-rule.
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More than 50 people were killed in  civil war-racked Sri Lanka in August and dozens more  disappeared, a rights group said on Tuesday, urging the United  Nations to intervene.
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Sri Lanka may outlaw the Tamil Tigers if the rebels continue to mount large-scale attacks, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Monday, a move that would put the prospect of renewed peace talks further out of reach.
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Sri Lanka has asked peace broker Norway to suspend contacts with the island's Tamil Tiger rebels pending a review of relations with the guerrillas, a top Sri Lankan official said.
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A deadly new chapter in Sri Lanka's  two-decade civil war is putting the lives of thousands of  civilians at risk and derailing efforts to rebuild areas  devastated by the 2004 tsunami, a senior UN envoy said.
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Sri Lanka's threadbare truce has come under further pressure following decisions by Finland and Denmark to remove their monitors as Tamil rebels and government troops braced for a showdown.
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Sri Lanka may take action against Marvan Atapattu for opting out of their series against Bangladesh.