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Introducing Sri Lanka
Travel Alert: Fighting between the Sri Lankan military and the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) has ceased, but northern Sri Lanka has been devastated by the conflict. Check the BBC for news updates and Safe Travel for current government warnings.
When the noted writer Sir Arthur C Clarke made his home in Sri Lanka in 1956, he claimed the island jewel of the Indian Ocean was the best place in the world from which to view the universe. The author of 2001: A Space Odyssey passed away in 2008, but no doubt the futurist would have logged on to Google Earth to gaze back at his island home from an online universe. And concealed in the sky-high imagery of this teardrop-shaped nation, he would have recognised an amazing diversity for somewhere so compact.
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Latest headlines for Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka orders cuts in aid work
9 July 2009 3:20PM
The Sri Lankan government tells international relief agencies to cut back their activities following the defeat of Tamil rebels in May.
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Red Cross scales back in S Lanka
9 July 2009 10:35AM
The International Committee of the Red Cross says Sri Lanka has told it to scale back operations as "the war is now over".
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S Lanka medics recant on deaths
8 July 2009 9:43PM
Doctors who worked in Sri Lanka's war zone say Tamil Tiger rebels forced them to exaggerate civilian casualty numbers.
