COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president has told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon a proposed U.N. panel to look into possible human rights abuses in the country's civil war was unwarranted, the president's office said on Saturday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to ask a panel of experts to advise the world body on "accountability issues ...

India's foreign secretary Nirupama Rao will hold talks with Sri Lanka's president on resolving the grievances of the island's Tamil minority this weekend, an official source said Saturday. New Delhi has been pushing for political power-sharing between Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese and the Tamils since Sri Lankan troops crushed Tamil Tiger rebels last May, ending a ...

India's foreign secretary Nirupama Rao will hold talks with Sri Lanka's president on resolving the grievances of the island's Tamil minority this weekend, an official source said Saturday. New Delhi has been pushing for political power-sharing between Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese and the Tamils since Sri Lankan troops crushed Tamil Tiger rebels last May, ending a ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Human rights abuses in Sri Lanka are damaging prospects for reconciliation after 25 years of civil war and a violent crackdown on dissent in Iran is deeply worrying, the top U.N. human rights official said on Thursday. Repeating her call for an independent investigation into war crimes allegations in Sri Lanka, U.N. High Commissioner for Human ...