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President tells expatriates:

PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa, now on a two-day visit to Los Angeles, on Thursday urged all Lankans domiciled abroad to invest even in a small way to secure a brighter future for the country.

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Sri Lanka ratifies International convention for suppression of terrorism

SRI LANKA on Thursday ratified the International Convention for the Suppression of Nuclear Terrorism.

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UNP’s about turn could lead to consensus - Keheliya

AN EARLY consensus on a political solution to the North East conflict will be possible with the dramatic U taken by the main Opposition United National Party on the ethnic issue, Government Defence Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said yesterday.

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Britain urges Govt, LTTE to resume talks

BRITISH High Commissioner Dominick Chilcott yesterday called upon both the Government and the LTTE to seize the present opportunity to resume negotiations towards finding a lasting political solution to the ethnic conflict.

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Seven million mobile users

Wireless infrastructure has far reaching impacts on country's economy, Chief Executive Officer, Dialog Telekom Ltd, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya said delivering a public lecture on ` Deriving Socio-Economic dividends from wireless communications-leveraging in full potential' yesterday.

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