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SriLankaSource.com Saturday 4th July 2009 Volume 7/27
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NAS: 49.20 1796.52 2.67%
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"Our beloved son, brother and father of three children has gone so unexpectedly, in such a tragic way and much too soon. It leaves us, his family, speechless and devastated to a point, where communication with the outside world seems almost impossible at times."
Joseph Jackson
The father of Michael Jackson and the family patriarch was speaking after the sudden death of his son.

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$£€ United States, Dollar Euro Sri Lanka, Rupee India, Rupee Myanmar
United States, Dollar - 0.715 114.9 47.81 6.510
Euro 1.397 - 160.5 66.80 9.094
Sri Lanka, Rupee 0.008 0.006 - 0.416 0.056
India, Rupee 0.020 0.014 2.403 - 0.136
Myanmar 0.153 0.110 17.65 7.344 -

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Sri Lanka v Pakistan live score
Six new trains for Tamil Nadu
SriLankan Air chief beats tourism drum
Britain Lifts Travel Curbs In Sri Lanka
Putting the “heavy” in heavy metal

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Industries being reinvented in Pearl River Delta
EU to lift ban Indonesia's Garuda, three other carriers
AI crisis threatens to snowball
Rising debt may be next crisis
Should black boxes be on aircraft

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Jackson fans flood website handing out memorial tickets
Blair Levin Calls for Citizen Participation
Jackson virus and spam spreads on Internet
Malt-O-Meal recalls Maple & Brown Sugar Instant Oatmeal
Detroit retooled its '08 lemon

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Britain relaxes restrictions on travel to Sri Lanka
The British government has relaxed travel restrictions on its citizens visiting Sri Lanka nearly five weeks after Tamil separatist rebels were defeated to end a more then 30-year war in the South Asian country, the British high commission in Colombo said...

'Sri Lankan Govt. building permanent camps for Tamil refugees'
Colombo, July 3 : Despite promising to resettle 80 percent of Tamil refugees by the end of this year, the Sri Lankan Government has reportedly started building permanent camps for most of the 300,000 refugees, who are being held there since Tamil Tigers' defeat in...

"Miffed" PCB likely to skip Mumbai meeting to assert its stand on WC hosting issue
Lahore, July 3 : The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is unlikely to participate in the meeting with the three hosts of the 2011 World Cup India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, to discuss and sort out the hosting rights...

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International
New IAEA chief sees no proof Iran developing nuclear weapons
The incoming head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says he knows of no hard evidence that Iran is trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear...

Sarah Palin resigns as Governor of Alaska
Politics in Washington picked up a beat Friday. when former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin suddenly announced her resignation as Alaskan...

Damning report slams Israel, Hamas over civilian deaths, destruction
Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new report published this week....

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Swiss banks cutting U.S. clients loose
Swiss banks are shunning business from the U.S. amid concerns over legal issues and prospects for tighter...

Obama still popular despite weakening economy, employment
The U.S. jobless rate rose to 9.5 percent last month -- the highest figure in 26 years. In the short term, the jobs report is a political setback for President Barack Obama and his economic policies. But the latest opinion polls suggest the president continues to hold public support despite the weak...

European equities mixed, U.S. markets closed
Some markets in Europe closed higher Friday, while others...

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