Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama dismissed calls from Amnesty International to publish the official death toll during the finals weeks of the armed conflict that ended last month.
The UN Human Rights Council dropped an EU draft resolution calling for a probe of war crimes during Sri Lanka’s recently-concluded war on the Tamil Tigers, instead adopting Sri Lanka’s own draft.
Two were killed and 12 injured in an explosion at a Roman Catholic church in Nepal. Police say they suspect the Nepal Defense Army, a Hindu extremist group that seeks to restore Nepal’s monarchy.
Pakistan’s government has blamed Taliban militants for a bomb attack in Lahore that killed 23 people and left hundreds more injured.
Aid officials, rights workers and community leaders in Sri Lanka say Tamils are being driven out of areas in the northeast by killings and kidnappings carried out by pro-government militias.
Thousands of Sikh protesters rioted across India’s Punjab region following the slaying of dissident Sikh guru Sant Ramanand, who was attacked at a gurdwara (Sikh temple) in Vienna.
US satellite photos released this week show Pakistan has expanded two sites crucial to its atomic program—apparently in an effort to bolster its nuclear arsenal. Pakistan denied the charges.
As celebrations break out in Colombo over the Sri Lankan armed forces’ taking of the last strip of coastline controlled by the Tamil Tigers, reports warn of a grave humanitarian crisis.
Sri Lankan government forces are accused of shelling a hospital, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 50 others at Mullivaikal, in the besieged zone controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
Alleged Mumbai terror attack suspect Mohammed Ajmal Kasab pleaded not guilty in an Indian court to 86 charges stemming from his participation in the November 2008 attack.
The lawyer for the accused gunman on trial for the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks moved to suppress his client’s confession, arguing it was the product of torture.
Naxalite guerillas killed 17 in India’s “red corridor” of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa as voters went to the polls in elections for India’s Lok Sabha, or lower house of parliament.
