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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) � Environmentalists in Sri Lanka are challenging a court order that would allow the return of 14 illegally captured wild elephants to people accused of buying them from traffickers. Rights groups and lawyers say the Sept. 6 court order is based on a government decree that violates Sri Lankan environmental laws.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) � Sri Lanka’s Christian community has hoisted black flags at churches and homes to express anger over the government’s investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks. Last week, twenty-five people were charged in connection with the attacks, which killed 269 people. But the country’s Catholic Church says these could be

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) � When a 51-year-old tutor suffered a heart attack in Sri Lanka’s capital, his friends and family were faced with a difficult problem. The father of three tested positive for COVID-19, which meant he’d need to go to a special ICU for virus patients. All of them were occupied, and he

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) � Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church says 25 people charged this week in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed 269 people could be “smaller fish,� and accused the government of still not taking steps to identify the true conspirators. The head of the archdiocese of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) � Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people. The president’s office says the charges filed under the country’s anti-terror law include conspiring to murder, aiding and abetting, collecting arms and ammunition,