(UTV|COLOMBO) – Australia has boarded 20 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, who were detained on Sunday for attempting to illegally reach Australia in a vessel, to send them off to Christmas Island. An Australian government charter plane carrying failed asylum seekers had left Christmas Island for Colombo, just days after their vessel was intercepted in the Indian…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – The Australian government has called on China to allow an ethnic Uighur mother and son to leave the country, following a public plea from the child’s father. Rights groups say China is holding about a million Uighurs and other Muslims in detention camps. China says they are “vocational training centres”. Sadam Abudusalamu, an ethnically…
(UTV|COLOMBO) -Four years of planning will be put on the line for England when they face holders Australia in a blockbuster Cricket World Cup semi-final at Edgbaston on Thursday. England’s woeful first-round exit at the 2015 edition prompted a complete rethink of their approach to one-day internationals for a side that had long placed Test…
