Sri Lanka Tourism plans to attract 2.5 m visitors next year

Sri Lanka is a foremost tourist destination which has diverse attractions along with beauty, culture and warm and hospitable people. The only negative factor which caused a setback was LTTE terrorism. During the past 30 years, we could not gear ourselves because a few tourists came to our country due to this threat.

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Is Obama anti - Israel?

Just four percent of Jewish Israelis view the policies of U.S. President Barack Obama as being pro-Israeli, according to a poll published Friday by The Jerusalem Post, which says this is part of an ongoing decline in support for the American leader and his latest Middle East initiatives which are, if anything, making him less popular.

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Japan heading for two-party system

The voters have spoken, and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been ousted in favour of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). But now a relatively young political organization has the task of attempting to govern a country crippled by an economic crisis and the grayest population on the planet.

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