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Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Reaction to denial of permission for Bildt’s visit to Colombo?
Sweden has decided to close its Embassy in Colombo, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt announced after his Government reviewed its 2007 development cooperation and decided to end Sweden’s bilateral development assistance to Sri Lanka.

Sweden also decided to close its four Consulate General’s offices in Kaliningrad, Canton, Los Angeles and New York.

Sweden’s Foreign Ministry in a statement said that these measures were...

Free at last

The five soldiers convicted of the killing of 11 Muslim youth at Udathalawinna on general election day in 2001 and sentenced to death by a High Court Trial-at-Bar, walk free after a five-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court, which heard their appeal, acquitted them yesterday.
(Photo-Sujatha Jayarathne)

Bacteria alone cannot curb dengue menace – Tissa
Professor Tissa Vitharana on Thursday stressed that the dengue menace cannot be controlled solely by introducing bacteria. The public has a huge responsibility in keeping the environment clean, thus depriving the deadly..

Polls not being conducted to schedule – PAFFREL
At least four elections must take place in Sri Lanka once in six years, but it has not been happening in the recent past due to a number of reasons, according to the premier election monitoring organization in the country.

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