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A multi-party Parliamentary delegation that visited Sri Lanka submitted a report on the condition of ethnic Tamils to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday.

A Sri Lankan Canadian national was hacked to death by unknown persons in Paranthan on Thursday night.

Today is the World Media Freedom Day.  Twenty one  journalists have been killed worldwide this year while 66 were killed in 2011, Reporter without Borders, an international body of journalists said.

Several Chinese newspapers in Malaysia "went black" to mark World Press Freedom Day today as a protest against the violence towards journalists during a recent opposition backed rally on electoral reforms.

A top level US de-mining expert has toured the battle scarred areas of Sri Lanka to take stock of de-mining activities in the country where deadly booby traps continue to remain a major problem. 

Australia’s immigration minister should raise concerns with Sri Lankan officials about alleged arbitrary arrest and torture of people who were refused asylum and sent back to Sri Lanka when he visits this week, the Human Rights Law Centre and Human Rights Watch said today.