Today marks 23 years since a team of 14 LTTE commandos infiltrated and attacked the Sri Lankan Air Force Base in Katunayake, destroying several aircraft and causing over US$500 million worth of damage without a single civilian fatality.

A Tamil agricultural labourer activist has been seriously injured after a shooting in Mullaitivu this week.

Cornish lawmakers called on Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer to allow the devolution powers to Cornwall, citing its "unique" historical and cultural identity this month.

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Sri Lanka's Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to gazette and table the controversial Online Safety Bill in Parliament, despite international condemnation of the recently passed legislation.

In a landmark diplomatic achievement, China has brokered an agreement to form an interim “national reconciliation government” with 14 Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas.

Ahead of Sri Lanka’s presidential election, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Ali Sabry, lashed out at Tamils and claiming, “Tamil leadership have continuously refused to be part of the government” and has refused to be a part of a common “Sri Lankan identity”.

Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, released a statement on the 41^st anniversary of the anti-Tamil Black July pogroms, which saw the slaughter of over 3,000 Tamils, and renewed the country’s commitment to “demand accountability for human rights violations” on the island.

Trudeau’s statement further noted that:

This month marks, 41 years since the Welikada prison massacre which resulted in the murder of 53 political prisoners was instigated during the Black July pogrom by prison officials.

Eelam Tamil residents of Parangikamam,  Iluppai Kadavai, and Antoniyar Puram, villages in Manthai West, Mannar, held a protest march towards the Land Reforms Commission demanding that the commission take measures to prevent land grab by foreigners, illegal Sinhala settlers, and the Sri Lankan security forces. 

The former cricketer and ex-parliamentarian with the Rajapaksa clan, Sanath Jayasuriya, has been appointed as the interim coach of Sri Lanka's national team, as they prepare to tour England later this year.

Hindu nationalist organisations have increased their presence and activities in Tamil Eelam over recent months, including by supporting the release of a racist Sinhala Buddhist monk.