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The United Kingdom has marked the 31st anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, honouring the victims and warning that the atrocity remains a reminder of what follows from international inaction.

Speaking in Vienna on 16 July, the deputy ambassador James Ford told the OSCE Permanent Council that the anniversary, marked on 11 July, was an occasion to remember the victims, survivors and their families of an appalling atrocity.

"31 years ago, in Srebrenica, we witn

Azerbaijan has publicly claimed credit for pressuring Israel into abandoning a parliamentary vote to recognise the Armenian genocide, months after the Israeli cabinet unanimously approved it as a "moral duty".

Hikmet Hajiyev, foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, told the Turkish broadcaster Haber Global that Baku had mounted an immediate diplomatic campaign on Aliyevs instructions once the Israeli move became known, and that it had worked.

"As soon as this issue arose, Azerbaijan, on the instructions of Mr. President [

The Football Federation of Sri Lanka has praised the FIFA president Gianni Infantinos "inclusive leadership style" after he withdrew his 20 billion dollar plan to open FIFAs commercial operations to private investors, a proposal he abandoned within 72 hours only after all 55 UEFA member associations threatened to boycott FIFA competitions and his own senior adviser resigned over it.

In a statement issued on 1 August, the FFSL president Jaswar Umar noted Infantinos withdrawal but gushed with praise for the FIFA chief, saying the decision

The United States and Sri Lanka have concluded their sixth Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training exercise, hosted by the Sri Lanka Navy at Trincomalee, the site of a naval facility documented as a torture centre and where eleven abducted young men, most of them Tamil, were held before they disappeared.

The exercise ran from 27 to 31 July across Colombo, Trincomalee and the Indian Ocean, and involved the US Navy, the US Coast Guard, the Sri Lanka Navy and the Sri Lanka Air Force. American assets included a P-8A Poseidon maritime pa

Former Sri Lankan state minister and paramilitary leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, widely known as Pillayan, has been further remanded until 12 August over a Criminal Investigation Department probe into five killings in Batticaloa in 2008.

The order was issued by the Batticaloa Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, after Pillayan was produced before Magistrate A. Darshini via video link.

Pillayan, who is being held under Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism A

Tamil journalists in Jaffna boycotted a media workshop attended by Sri Lankas Deputy Minister of Mass Media, Kaushalya Ariyarathne, on Friday, staging a protest instead to demand justic

The Sinhala nationalist monk Battaramulle Seelarathana, leader of the Jana Setha Peramuna, has claimed that supporters and operatives of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continue to function in several countries around the world, and called for other groups in Sri Lanka to be suppressed in the same way the LTTE was defeated.

Speaking at a media briefing at the partys office in Colombo on 1 August, Seelarathana said LTTE supporters remained active internationally, and accused Sri Lankan political le

Tamil residents of Keppapilavu in the Karaithuraipattu Divisional Secretariat Division of Mullaitivu continued their renewed protest for the 37th day, demanding the release of ancestral lands still occupied by the Sri Lankan military.

Residents said 59.5 acres of ancestral residential land belonging to 55 families, along with 100 acres of Middle Class Allotment land belonging to four families, remain under military control in Keppapilavu.

The landowners have been engaged in a peaceful continuous protest, urging the authorities to return

Dengue has been on the island for as long as anyone has kept records, a seasonal misery that arrives with the monsoon and usually recedes with it. What is happening now is of a different order by Sri Lankas own measures. More than 76,000 people have been infected this year and 53 have died, the worst outbreak in nearly a decade, with the caseload running at more than double last years by the middle of the summer. Hospitals in Colombo and the surrounding districts have been admitting over a thousand dengue patients a day. Doctors describe wards where beds ran out weeks ago. The health ministrys own officials conc