Applications are invited for the above from students under 25 years of age who have enrolled or plan to enroll in vocational courses in recognized institutes in Sri Lanka who are not receiving any scholarships. Minimum Qualification: O/L 6 passes with 3 credits A/L preferred and SHOULD not be a recipient of any other scholarships.    Interested students should …

Israeli officials have expressed alarm at a succession of moves by the interim Egyptian government that they fear signal an impending crisis in relations with Cairo. The widening rift was underscored on 4 May when leaders of the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation pact in the Egyptian capital. Egypt's secret role in brokering the agreement last …

The False Perception First, the accusation was: “All Muslims are terrorists.” When the bigots who made this statement realized no one in their right mind would believe that all 1.6 billion Muslims in the world could be terrorists, they reversed their statement to sound more objective and fair: “All Muslims may not be terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.” Really? …

  UNITED NATIONS, May 9, 2011 (IPS) – Was last week's killing of an unarmed Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan legitimate self-defence, justified homicide or extra-judicial execution? At least two U.N. human rights experts, Christof Heyns and Martin Scheinin, are asking the United States to disclose more details of the assassination, including whether there were any plans …

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 Top United States’ officials including Madeline Albright said;. President Barack Obama announced on Monday 2 May 2011 that Osama Bin Laden, founder and leader of Al Qaeda, was killed in an early morning attack by American forces. He said it happened in a housing compound at Abbottabad, a beautiful, green hill city nestled among the mountains, a few hundred yards …