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| Abort Landing, Abort - Wart Hogs Crossing Runway |
Botswana and Zambia appear to have struck an admirable balance between environmental conservation and community needs. There are large national parks and private game reserves in these two sparsely populated countries.
The private reserves were once hunting lodges. But today, hunting is strictly pro... |
| 06.08.2018 - 16:14 |
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Story and pics by - Dr Palitha Kohona |
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| Sri Lanka & Human Rights: US Liberal Internationalism keeps it alive |
Sri Lanka still doesn’t seem to have got it. This is significantly true of some who are in the academic community who have become political analysts and foreign affairs pundits, news analysts, who often write on issues concerning national security connected with external interference, and advisers t... |
| 04.08.2018 - 13:44 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Diplomatic Note |
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| Pope Francis declares death penalty is inadmissible in all cases |
Pope Francis has declared the death penalty inadmissible in all cases, “because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” the Vatican announced on Thursday, in a major shift in Roman Catholic teaching on the issue.
Francis, who has spoken out against capital punishment before... |
| 03.08.2018 - 02:33 |
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| Wiggy dares end ‘violence’ in the North within 2 months |
Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran has extended a challenge to the Government that he would bring to an end the violence presently prevailing in the Northern Province within a period of two months, in case Police Powers were devolved to the Provincial Council.
According to the Thirtee... |
| 01.08.2018 - 16:05 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| Nonagenarian M Karunanidhi Hospitalised |
Sources close to the family said 94-year-old veteran politician M.Karunanidhi was being hospitalized due to blood pressure issues.
Ailing DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi was shifted to a Chennai hospital past midnight, hours after his son MK Stalin issued a statement that there is an improvement in his... |
| 28.07.2018 - 19:58 |
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| Imran Khan Premier: Pakistan slipping out of US influence |
Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI, Movement for Justice party), now assured to be the nation’s next prime minister following Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, said in January that meeting U.S. President Donald Trump would be a “bitter pill” to swallow should he become Pakis... |
| 27.07.2018 - 15:06 |
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Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Report |
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| A Setback On M. Karunanidhi’s Health Condition – A Matter Of Grave Concern |
DMK president M. Karunanidhi’s health suffered a slight setback on Thursday and he is being monitored and treated round-the-clock at his Gopalapuram residence by a team of doctors and nursing professionals from the Kauvery Hospital.
Kauvery hospital bulletin says Karunanidhi being monitored and trea... |
| 27.07.2018 - 07:47 |
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| With Imran Khan’s victory, will Pakistan leave U.S. orbit? |
He was taken a joke a decade ago when he entered politics, and most politicians declared him a person who has no knowledge whatsoever on politics. With the unfolding of election results, the Asian Tribune currently monitoring, in Pakistan’s parliamentary election, the onetime global cricket star who... |
| 26.07.2018 - 13:06 |
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Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Note |
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| Guru Pournima Ustav at Shirdi |
Guru Pournima brings upfront the mentor- disciple tradition, For expressing gratitude to our teacher –mentors, the festival is celebrated on Ashadhi Pournima, Rubal Agrawal, Chief Executive Officer, Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, said in a statement.
She recalled that during the days Saibaba was livin... |
| 22.07.2018 - 06:16 |
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From Malladi Rama Rao in New Delhi |
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| Nike’s Backstory: the little-known Japanese secret of the top, global shoe brand |
Two weeks ago, NHK World TV, the Japanese national state broadcaster, asked me, a regular programme monitor of the channel from London, to write a report on a programme that they planned to air on July, 14th. I must admit what I watched was not something that I ever knew and am sure neither did most... |
| 22.07.2018 - 18:37 |
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Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… |
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| Two New Buddies in Town: President Trump and President Putin to Forge a Close Bond |
The meeting between President Trump and President Putin, despite the initial, uneasy body-language, developed into a mutually beneficial friendship, as the day wore on in Helsinki, Finland yesterday.
At the outset, both men, the two most powerful individuals on the planet, showed palpable tension: n... |
| 17.07.2018 - 06:04 |
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Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London… |
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| Will Maithri Defeat Modi - ‘Most Travelled Head of State?’ |
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Srisena, who is in a bid to defeat Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Guinness Book of Record , as the most travelled Head of State, has already left for Italy as well as to Georgia.
Earlier, Indian Congress has written to the ‘Guinness World Records,’ sugges... |
| 16.07.2018 - 08:43 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| Nawaz Sharif, Daughter Maryam Arrested In Lahore |
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, sentenced to jail in absentia for corruption, were arrested within minutes of their Etihad Airways flight EY243 landed in Lahore at 9.17 pm from Abu Dhabi touching down at Lahore airport on Friday (13th July).
The three-time prim... |
| 14.07.2018 - 08:30 |
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| Mahinda’s strategy for 2020 Prez Poll: Split Tamil Vote |
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is back at his old game of exploiting the Tamil vote. His political group (RPG), which is expected to contest the 2020 Presidential election is planning to rope in a leading Tamil leader to enter the fray on the plank of a referendum for a Tamil Homeland, within un... |
| 11.07.2018 - 12:25 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| Undiplomatic-shortsighted rhetoric by U.S. new envoy to Sri Lanka |
Obviously, the United States ambassador-designate to the Republic of Sri Lanka Alaina Teplitz looked backward instead the present and the future when she was before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee for her testimony when she cast aspersions and innuendos on Sri Lanka’s previous administra... |
| 07.07.2018 - 07:15 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Diplomacy Note |
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