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...Sayyaf group in the Philippines and to Turkey to supply rebels in Chechnya. "They have the best terrorist shipping network in the world," says Gunaratna. But while the U.S. is trying to portray itself as "bad cop" and "a menacing hard-ass," according to one Western diplomat in Colombo, Prabhakaran last week publicly called their bluff. "We do not think America would intervene," he said dismissively. "We are not Muslims...
Remembrance of Things Past Movie stars and royalty, tycoons and world leaders?they can't all be wrong, can they? Not about sunset on the veranda of Colombo's Galle Face Hotel. A pot of Ceylon tea is on the table. Uniformed waiters anticipate every need. Attention wanders from a book to monitoring the progress of the sun's blood orange descent into the Indian Ocean. All, in short, is as it should be, the life you've always felt you deserved...
...Colombo, Sri Lanka Fort Railway Station on Tuesday, a farmer broke a fairly unusual world record when he used his teeth to drag a 40-ton railway carriage more than 25 meters...
...Rights; Eitan Felner, the outgoing director of B’Tselem, the Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories; and Mario Gomez, a member of the law commission of Sri Lanka and a professor of public law, human rights and feminist legal studies at the University of Colombo...
...Galle, the 12-cm-thick slab, which was being used as a drain cover, caused a wave of excitement in the archeological world. Here was solid proof of Zheng He's odysseys. Today, the shoulder-high stone lies all but forgotten in a corner of the National Museum in Colombo. In Galle, a replica of the tablet - the town's sole record of Zheng He's passing - sits in the National Maritime Museum alongside pieces of the wrecked ships of later Dutch and Portuguese visitors. Although he may be forgotten, Zheng He would recognize much in Galle's narrow alleys...