In a letter to leaders of “the world’s leading democracies,” Tamils for Obama called upon public figures to recognize the massacre of unarmed Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan armed forces during the closing month of the recent Sri Lankan civil war. The letter was posted and/or emailed to President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, Under Secretary Robert...

Sixty six days after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he would name a panel of experts to advise him about possible war crimes in Sri Lanka, Inner City Press on May 10 asked Ban’s spokesman Martin Nesirky about reports that the panel would only be named, if at all, after his political advisor Lynn Pascoe is allowed to visit by the government. Video here, from...

Eurocontrol says most flights between Europe and North America will be delayed on Saturday due to a spreading cloud of volcanic ash stretching across much of the northern Atlantic. Flights will have to be rerouted north and south of the 1,200-mile-long cloud stretching from Iceland to northern Spain, adding up to an hour of flying time in either direction. The plume of...

The Pakistani-American man suspected in Saturday’s attempted car bombing in New York’s Times Square has told authorities he was upset over U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan, especially a drone attack while he was in the country, a U.S. official told Fox News. The new information about a possible motive in the failed attack comes as Pakistani officials tell Fox...

This general election sees unprecedented levels of engagement of British political parties with issues that are important to the Tamil Diaspora. With three active party-affiliated campaigning groups within the Diaspora – Tamils for Labour, British Tamil Conservatives and the Tamils for Liberals and the reciprocal active engagement of candidates from a cross section...

Sri Lanka’s ethnic crisis is among international issues that have drawn comment by all three main political parties in Britain ahead of the general election on Thursday. The main opposition Conservative party insisted Sri Lanka “take immediate steps to address the concerns of the Tamil people” and emphasised the importance of “meaningful political reform”...

In northern Sri Lanka, 80,000 war-displaced people still live in army-run camps, waiting while their devastated land is cleared of mines and jungle. Tens of thousands are now beginning to resettle near the homes they fled from, but it is not easy, says the BBC’s Charles Haviland. It is early morning but sweat pours from the brows of labourers on a railway track...

A Letter for Mr.Urithirakumar The election for the transnational government of Tamil Eelam was totally corrupted. It was undemocratic with many monarchical elements. Mr.Urithirakumar and we all should know that we will never retrieve Tamil Eelam with these kinds of approaches. First of all the persons who were in charge of this election in Denmark, were informing...

A damaged BP Plc oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is leaking as many as 5,000 barrels of crude a day, five times more than previously estimated, the U.S. Coast Guard said. “There’s an additional breach in the well,” Coast Guard spokesman Erik Swanson said by telephone from Robert, Louisiana. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has increased its...

While calls for independent investigations into Sri Lanka’s war crimes continue to mount, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s appointment of advisory panel on Sri Lanka’s war-crimes shows no progress, ABC Radio Australia reported that Australian Young Lawyers Group in New South Wales is joining forces with the International Commission of Jurists...