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Teenager Anthony Joseph Miller’s last words could scarcely have been more gut-wrenching.

The Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court yesterday (11) permitted former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to travel abroad from January 20 to January 31. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) informed the Court that the Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam had concurred. The Court earlier issued an order preventing former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, MP Namal Rajapaksa and 15 others […]

BBC reported that a suicide bomb attack outside the Afghan foreign ministry in Kabul has caused heavy casualties. Police said at least five civilians had been killed but another Taliban official put the toll as high as 20. The attack took place about 16:00 local time (11:30 GMT) when the bomber tried, but failed to […]

The Supreme Court, yesterday (11), affirmed the conviction and sentence imposed by the Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar against ex-President Maithripala Sirisena’s Chief of Staff, Kusumdasa Mahanama, and one-time State Timber Corporation (STC) Chairman, Piyadasa Dissanayaka, in the Kantale sugar factory bribery case that took place in 2018. Mahanama received a 20-year sentence of RI for […]

Major move after acceptance of genocide charge By Shamindra Ferdinando Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (11) summoned Acting Canadian High Commissioner Daniel Bood over the imposition of sanctions on two former Presidents, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Staff Sergeant Sunil Ratnayaka, and Lt. Commander P. Hettiarachchi over what Ottawa called ‘gross and systematic violations […]