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# Sri Lanka

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2022
# rough start
Ireland suffer heavy defeat to Sri Lanka in T20 World Cup Super 12s opener
Sri Lanka secured a nine-wicket victory on Sunday.
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Oct 23rd 2022, 9:56 AM
# Concern
Official confirms that 10 members of crisis-hit Sri Lankan team vanish from Commonwealth Games
Three of them – judoka Chamila Dilani, her manager Asela de Silva, and wrestler Shanith Chathuranga – had disappeared last week.
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Aug 7th 2022, 12:08 PM
# War Crimes
International human rights group seeks arrest of ex-Sri Lankan president after he fled country
Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to Singapore earlier this month.
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Jul 25th 2022, 9:57 AM
# new president
New Sri Lanka president sworn in amid ongoing crisis
Protesters recently stormed the home of then-president Rajapaksa, forcing him to step down and clearing the way for a new president.
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Jul 21st 2022, 7:24 AM
# Colombo
Sri Lanka begins choosing leader to replace exiled ex-president
Security around the parliament building was heightened today with masked soldiers on guard and nearby roads closed.
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Jul 16th 2022, 10:30 AM
# presidential crisis
Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns after fleeing country
The parliament will convene on Saturday to start the process of electing a new president.
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Jul 15th 2022, 7:03 AM
# Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka president submits resignation from Singapore
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives yesterday aboard an air force jet.
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Jul 14th 2022, 4:58 PM
# crisis
Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after president flees to Maldives
A state of emergency has been declared and protesters stormed the prime minister’s office.
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Jul 13th 2022, 3:01 PM
# Occupied
Protesters refusing to leave Sri Lankan leader's private residence until he resigns
Protesters remain in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence which they stormed on Saturday.
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Jul 11th 2022, 2:02 PM
# Takeover
Sri Lanka protesters refuse to leave president’s palace until he vacates office
The presidential palace was a free-for-all today after protesters stormed it.
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Jul 10th 2022, 1:53 PM
# Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's president to resign after being chased from home
Hundreds of thousands of people massed in the capital to demand the government take responsibility for mismanaging the nation’s finance.
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Jul 9th 2022, 2:11 PM
# fuel crisis
Sri Lanka closes schools and limits work amid fuel shortage
People have been waiting for days at a time to get fuel at stations around the island nation.
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May 20th 2022, 10:57 AM
# Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka deploys troops in capital after violence and protests
In the past few days, eight people have died and more than 200 have been injured in violent attacks in which mobs set fire to buildings and vehicles.
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May 11th 2022, 2:03 PM
# Civil Unrest
Shoot-on-sight orders issued in Sri Lanka amid deadly violence
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948.
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May 10th 2022, 5:37 PM
# Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan prime minister quits as violence kills three, injures 150
The Indian Ocean island nation is on the brink of bankruptcy and has suspended payments on its foreign loans.
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May 9th 2022, 12:52 PM
# Sri Lanka
Elephants dying from eating plastic waste in Sri Lankan dump, conservationists warn
Around 20 elephants have died over the last eight years after consuming plastic trash in the dump.
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Jan 14th 2022, 1:56 PM
All time
# Under Pressure
Ireland face crunch match with Namibia following resounding defeat to Sri Lanka
Captain Andy Balbirnie top-scored with 41 as his side were beaten by 70 runs.
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Oct 20th 2021, 8:03 PM
# Sri Lanka
At least 16 dead and a quarter of a million homeless after floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka
There were heavy downpours in ten out of the country’s 25 districts.
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Jun 6th 2021, 7:42 PM
# mhq
Afghanistan and Egypt among five countries to be added to hotel quarantine list
The five countries will go on the list from Tuesday morning.
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Jun 4th 2021, 11:01 PM
# Sri Lanka
Race to prevent environmental disaster as chemicals ship sinks off Sri Lanka
The Singapore-flagged MV X-Press Pearl started sinking off Colombo after authorities extinguished a fire that raged on the vessel for 12 days.
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Jun 3rd 2021, 8:51 AM
# Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka announces plans to ban burka and close over 1,000 Islamic schools
Muslims make up about 9% of the 22 million people in Sri Lanka.
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Mar 13th 2021, 3:58 PM
# overnight operation
Navy and volunteers rescue 120 whales in Sri Lanka after mass stranding
Local authorities were braced for mass deaths as seen in Tasmania in September.
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Nov 3rd 2020, 8:10 AM
# Sri Lanka
15 people, including 6 children, die as Sri Lankan police raid suspected Islamist safe house
The deaths came as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot.
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Apr 27th 2019, 8:13 AM
# easter bombings
Radical leader killed in Easter hotel attack, Sri Lankan president says
More than 250 people were killed in the suicide bombings on Easter Sunday.
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Apr 26th 2019, 10:15 PM
# easter bombings
Death toll from Sri Lanka Easter bombings revised down by over 100
Two sons of a wealthy Sri Lankan spice trader are among the suspected suicide bombers.
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Apr 25th 2019, 6:45 PM
# Colombo
Sri Lankan police carry out controlled explosion near cinema as death toll from Easter bombing rises to 359
Hundreds were killed in a series of bomb blasts in the country on Easter Sunday.
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Apr 24th 2019, 7:20 AM
Voices
Opinion: My Sri Lankan relatives had a lucky escape from the bombings - I'm struggling to keep my hopes for peace alive
After a decade of peace, I had hoped that our troubles were behind us, writes Dil Wickremasinghe.
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Apr 24th 2019, 7:00 AM
# Sri Lanka
IS claims Sri Lanka bombings and releases photo of attackers
More than 320 people were killed in the Easter blasts.
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Apr 23rd 2019, 5:37 PM
# Colombo
Sri Lanka minister: Easter bomb attacks were 'in retaliation' for Christchurch mosque shootings
Eight explosions struck churches and hotels in the capital Colombo on Easter Sunday.
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Apr 23rd 2019, 9:49 AM
# easter attacks
Irish tourists urged to 'exercise a high degree of caution' as Sri Lanka curfew begins
No Irish citizens are believed to be among the dead or injured in yesterday’s fatal attacks.
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Apr 22nd 2019, 3:18 PM
# Colombo
Sri Lanka Easter attacks: Government says Islamist extremist group behind slaughter of almost 300
The government is investigating whether the group had “international support”.
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Apr 22nd 2019, 11:08 AM
# Colombo
207 people killed and hundreds injured after explosions strike hotels and churches in Sri Lanka
Eight people have now been arrested over the attacks.
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Apr 21st 2019, 5:55 PM
# DUP
Ian Paisley under pressure again for undeclared family holiday to Maldives
BBC Spotlight Northern Ireland travelled to the Maldives to investigate the claims against the North Antrim MP.
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Dec 13th 2018, 10:15 AM
# Violence
One dead in Sri Lanka shooting as constitutional crisis erupts into violence
Police said bodyguards for a Sri Lankan cabinet minister allied to Wickremesinghe opened fire inside a government ministry.
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Oct 28th 2018, 5:26 PM
# coalition of the willing
Northern parties contemplating anti-Brexit alliance to oust Ian Paisley Jr
The controversial DUP MP is currently the subject of a holiday expenses scandal involving the government of Sri Lanka.
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Jul 26th 2018, 10:53 PM
# Fighting On
Ian Paisley Jr has been suspended from the House of Commons and the DUP
The suspension follows Paisley’s failure to declare two family holidays that were paid for by the Sri Lankan government.
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Jul 24th 2018, 4:07 PM
# Ceylon farewell
Ian Paisley Jr suspended from House of Commons over paid Sri Lanka trips with his family
The trips included ‘business-class air travel and helicopter flights’.
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Jul 18th 2018, 12:40 PM
# Sri Lanka
'Animals': Buddhist monks who attacked Rohingya refugees slammed
The 31 Rohingya refugees were rescued by the Sri Lankan navy five months ago after they were found drifting in a boat off the island’s northern coast.
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Sep 27th 2017, 8:24 PM
# Colombo
Man caught at Sri Lankan airport with a kilogramme of gold hidden in his rectum
The man is reportedly a courier for an organised smuggling ring.
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Sep 26th 2017, 8:41 AM
# lagoon
A British journalist was killed by a crocodile while holidaying in Sri Lanka
Paul McLean was on a beach and it’s believed he stumbled into an area infested with crocodiles.
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Sep 15th 2017, 7:56 AM
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