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<title>Sri Lanka to relax Tamil camp conditions</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86008</link>
<description>Sri Lankan war-displaced civilians, living in highly guarded camps in the northern Vauniya district, will be allowed to move freely from 1 December, according to a senior government official.</description>
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<title>Journalists honoured</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85957</link>
<description>Journalists from Azerbaijan, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia will be presented with International Press Freedom Awards this month.</description>
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<title>UN 'concerned about safety of displaced Sri Lankans'  </title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85811</link>
<description>The UN Refugee Agency says it is &quot;deeply concerned&quot; about reports of security incidents inside internally displaced people's camps in northern Sri Lanka.</description>
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<title>Let survivors return home, Sri Lanka urged</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85753</link>
<description>Sri Lanka must end the forced confinement of hundreds of thousands of survivors of the civil war and allow them to go home, says an international charity. 
+ UN patience wears thin</description>
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<title>Radioactive Queen steers Empire to Commonwealth</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163550/1/</link>
<description>Kwame Kwei-Armah’s four-part series retracing Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 royal trip, On Tour With The Queen, is odd but quietly engaging.</description>
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<title>Floods threaten Sri Lanka detainees</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85644</link>
<description>Floods caused by heavy rains unnecessarily threaten more than 260,000 displaced Tamil civilians whom the Sri Lankan government has unlawfully detained in camps in the north, according to an international rights group.</description>
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<title>Low turnout in Jaffna poll</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85598</link>
<description>Only a small proportion of voters went to the polls in the northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna where elections to the municipal council were held have been held for the first time in 11 years. 
+  The dawn of democracy? 
+ Pro-rebel party wins one Sri Lanka council 
+ 'LTTE network shattered forever'</description>
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<title>New Tamil Tiger leader arrested </title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85596</link>
<description>The Sri Lankan government announced the arrest of &quot;the new leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels&quot;, in a foreign country, today.  
+ What the captured LTTE leader revealed on the Web</description>
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<title>Scrap detention camps, Sri Lanka urged </title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85551</link>
<description>The Sri Lankan government should immediately release the more than 280,000 internally displaced Tamil civilians held in detention camps in the north, an international rights group said. 
+  Sri Lanka: the challenges ahead</description>
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<title>Sri Lanka finesses its IMF loan</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163370/1/</link>
<description>Over the last year the Sri Lankan government has upset UN agencies, outraged human rights groups and insulted European ministers. Why has the IMF agreed to a $2.6 billion loan facility?</description>
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<title>Sri Lanka Tamil resettlement promise</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85523</link>
<description>Sri Lanka has set a six-month timeline for rehabilitating Tamils displaced by the recently ended conflict between its armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.</description>
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<title>Sri Lanka's foreign policy</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85531</link>
<description>Valuable analysis of the regional power relationships influencing Sri Lanka's prospects of obtaining IMF funding. groundviews</description>
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<title> Concern over threats to journalists in Sri Lanka</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85366</link>
<description>An international media freedom group has voiced concern over statements by Sri Lankan officials, including the army commander, that journalists who visited areas formerly controlled by the Tamil Tiger rebels will be prosecuted.</description>
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<title>UN chief's 'sobering' visit to Sri Lanka</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85344</link>
<description>UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has witnessed the suffering of some of the 300,000 people uprooted by the conflict between the Sri Lankan Government and Tamil rebels, during a “very sobering” visit to a displacement camp.</description>
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<title>UN rights council urged to intervene in Sri Lanka</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162967/1/</link>
<description>The UN Human Rights Council should ensure that the Sri Lankan government takes immediate steps to address the crisis in the country, beginning with providing immediate, unhindered access to international aid workers and monitors, urged an international rights group.</description>
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