Incumbent President has legal right to contest a third term - Gomin Dayasiri

Senior Lawyer and political analyst Gomin Dayasiri in an interview with the Sunday Observer said those who seek to abolish the executive presidency were pseudo patriots who wish to weaken the Government and allow anti Sri Lanka forces to take the upper hand.

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Blessed Joseph Vaz, a saint soon

The canonisation of Blessed Joseph Vaz will be completed soon and he would be raised to sainthood at a ceremony presided over by Pope Francis, Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith told journalists at the first media briefing on the impending visit of the Holy Father at the Archbishop's House on Friday.

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Opinion

How does the UN identify a civilian from a combatant?

There are plenty of laws and conventions on how wars are to be fought, but those laws were for wars that did not have cowards manipulating them. Today’s wars are all proxy wars as State armies fight asymmetrical wars where from some corner or corners of the world, groups of people with vested interested put together a group or groups,

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