For everyone who demonised protesters the minute Ranil Wickremesinghe got you petrol, remember that the “and then they came for me” moment is not a long way off for tolerating (and turning a blind eye to) the crackdown on dissent by the Tiran-Ranil combo.

#SriLanka Apparel Exporters have appealed to the central bank to end a mandatory conversion rule for exports proceeds as the rupee is allowed to appreciate with deflationary monetary policy.

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Lack of proper sanitation & waste collection is a health hazard to people in Gaza, UNRWA says, as waste continues to pile up across the Gaza Strip.
Mosquitoes, flies & rats are spreading, and so are diseases. The situation will only get worse as temperatures rise, agency warns.

Rafah population is ordered to evacuate from east Rafah in preparation for ground invasion

The carnage will be immense...

Israeli Authorities continue to deny humanitarian access to UN. In past 2 weeks, 10 incidents involving shooting at convoys, arrests of UN staff including bullying, stripping them naked, threats with arms & long delays at checkpoints were recorded - UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.

The committee before exploring free visas should explore allegations of fraud and corruption on the VFS deal. Without that, there is no free visa, tourists still have to pay processing fee to VFS. It’s a waste of time using committees to distract from the real issue.

Evacuate where?

Sri Lankan political corruption 101:
- Weaken independent procurement processes, claiming expediency
- Propose a cabinet paper for a project that helps a 'friend'
- Cabinet approves said project w/o any discussion because mutual back-scratching
- Relevant officials get kickbacks

All eyes on USA. The whole world is watching your stance next.
Vice President Kamala Harris Joe Biden President Biden

#GazaWar

More of this AOC. More of this.
#Accountability

Only a fool doesn't understand that eventually there will be a Palestinian state. And we Israelis are the biggest fools | Opinion | Alon Idan
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Why it’s very important to follow credible investigative journalists like Namini Wijedasa so you can spot disinformation.

Her full tweet 👇🏽
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The Japanese LRT project is NOT back. #Japan maintained its consistent position that economic collaboration, including yen loans, will resume after #SriLanka signs the MOU on debt restructuring with the official creditor committee.

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Tel Aviv protest tonight:

-End the war
- Hostage release
-No to Rafah invasion.
- The government must fall.

STOP celebrating politicians for doing the bare minimum in the jobs they are supposed to do. They sit around all year making money off our backs, then are celebrated for using OUR money to just do their jobs.

ANOTHER HISTORIC WIN!

RTI Commission orders NCPA to submit plan to monitor all legal cases of child abuse within 3 months & publish annual progress reports 2019-2022 b4 10/05/2024. We did something dat COPE/Parliament Committees were unable to do #EveryChildEveryRight

#Gaza : The Israeli Authorities continue to deny humanitarian access to the United Nations.

Just this week, they have denied - for the second time- my entry to Gaza where I planned to be with our UNRWA teams including those on the front lines.

The past while recorded an…

'You cannot, in a democratic country pass such a specific law that singles out one network.'

Israeli author Akiva Eldar says his gov't’s move to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel is to cater to the radical right and control the narrative concerning Israel's war on Gaza ⤵️

'Israel joins a dubious club of authoritarian governments' by banning Al Jazeera: Foreign Press Assoc.
'Free & independent media is essential to ensuring transparency & accountability. Now even more so given tight restrictions on reporting from Gaza' UN Human Rights haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

“Scoop: U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel”

If acccurate, this is very significant as the first withholding of US arms from Israel since October 7, coming as large numbers of lawmakers wrote to Biden last week on Israel’s actions in Gaza: x.com/dylanotes/stat…