Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has decided to shut down some of its embassies in Europe, the External Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday. A spokesperson at the ministry said that the government is of the view that embassies in Europe which are not serving any purpose in obtaining support for Sri Lanka's national issues will be closed and new embassies will be opened in Asia. "President Mahinda Rajapaksa had discussed...
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Tripoli: The administration of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was running a covert programme to conceal weapons in Libyan embassies across the globe, a senior official in the new government said on Thursday. The weapons included handguns, grenades and bomb-making materials and were shipped using the diplomatic bag. They may have been intended for use in assassinations on Libyan dissidents abroad, or for operations against the embassies' host countries. The...11:59 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Tehran: Iranian authorities blocked a website hours after it was launched by the US State Department to be a "virtual embassy" reaching out to people in the Islamic Republic. "In accordance with the cybercrime law, access to this website is not possible," read a notice to anyone inside Iran trying to visit iran.usembassy.gov. The semi-official Fars news agency commented on the blocking of the US website, saying, "A decisive reaction...10:06 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Nairobi: The black Toyota SUV pulled up to the security checkpoint in Mogadishu. It was night, and 22-year-old Somali soldier Abdi Hassan recalls that he ordered the driver to switch the headlights off and the interior lights on. "They are the elders," said the driver, referring to the car's occupants with an honorific name for top leaders of al-Shabab, Somalia's most dangerous militant group. "I don't know the elders," Hassan...12:39 AM, Jun 15, 2011
Port of Spain: West Indies batting legend Brian Lara has described the Caribbean cricket infrastructure as "terrible" and says it will take much more than just talent for the regional side to emerge from the prevailing slump. Lara was speaking at the World Travel Market in London earlier this week, following the West Indies' five-wicket defeat to India in the opening Test in New Delhi. "(We) still (have) a very...12:21 AM, Mar 19, 2008
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