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The Polannaruwa has become the prey of ongoing flood. The reservoirs and tanks surrounded by Polannaruwa over flowing with flood waters, in addition to continuingtorrential rain water. Several spill gates of Parakrama Samudraya, Kawudulla and Minneriya tanks have been opened. Galella, Manampitiya area in Polonnaruwa- Batticaloa road is impassable due to flooding. Many villages are submerged in water including Medegiriya town …
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Israel has no right to exist, but only to coexist , The Canadian Charger
"Peace is not a process. It is a state of being. You either have it or not. The Palestinians have not had peace since 1949. They have been under siege." That is how Trevor Purvis, Carleton University professor of international law summed up the situation of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and in Israel itself. He was speaking …
Read More »Made by America – the Peoples’ Revolution by Yvonne Ridley
US Administrations have been blighted since 9/11 by a deadly cocktail of arrogance and ignorance with a twist of the strong desire for revenge. But before you take aim and fire you have to know your enemy, and the scattergun policies of the Bush and now the Obama regimes have served only to create hatred and mistrust against the …
Read More »Crunch Time Coming for America in the Middle East?
If more and more Arabs breach the wall of fear that has prevented them for decades from demanding their rights, expressing their rage at the corruption and repression of their governments and at regime impotence in the face of Israel’s arrogance of power, there’s one question above all others America’s policy makers will have to ask themselves.Who do we need most …
Read More »US hatches Mubarak exit strategy as Egypt death toll mounts
• Mubarak: 'If I resign today there will be chaos' • 10 dead and hundreds injured in fresh crackdown • Protesters have dubbed today 'departure Friday' Protesters carry away an injured companion in Tahrir square in Cairo. Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA The Obama administration is working on a plan in which the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, would stand down immediately in spite …
Read More »Sri Lanka: IMF commends performance and approves loan By Charles Haviland
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has strongly praised Sri Lanka's macro-economic performance. The lending institution says the economy appears to have fundamental strengths. It has also approved another tranche of a $2.6bn (£1.6bn) loan. The organisation backed the latest instalment of the loan – nearly $200m dollars – intending it to help the country recover from its war and from …
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