Sri Lanka has hit back at Canada's prime minister over his refusal to attend November's Commonwealth leaders meeting. It's calling him a captive of the pro-Tamil lobby. Stephen Harper is ...

The stunning results of the provincial election in northern Sri Lanka last week are cause for cautious optimism. With the Tamil National Alliance sweeping up 30 of 36 contested seats, Tamils have ...

On Australia's western shore, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is upsetting the Commonwealth tea party. It's not just that he declared that Sri Lanka's human-rights record, so far, would make it an ...

The Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, says he will boycott next month’s Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka because of human rights concerns. He is also threatening to cut off funding to the ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, at the APEC summit Monday in Indonesia, says there has been a “considerable worsening” of the human rights situation in Sri Lanka in the past two years.