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Your Thursday Morning Brief

  1. The prices of fuel have been reduced with effect from today based on the fuel price formula. 2. MP Anura Kumara stated that if the opposition unites with them the reign of the current government would end today. 3. Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake re-issued an open warrant for the arrest of former Sri Lanka Ambassador to the US Jaliya Wickremasuriya, his wife and her cousin. 4. Sri Lanka Customs opened five containers of the consignment which allegedly carried waste materials in the guise of mattresses. 5. Dr Hans Wijesuriya responds to the Secretary of the Prime Minister E.M.S.B. Ekanayake. 6. The Adi Vel Shakthiwel procession organized for the 3rd consecutive year by The Capital Maharaja Organisation commenced its journey from Jaffna yesterday. 7. Chairman of the Blue Mountain Company revealed that even though over 300 customers paid in full for plots of land purchased from the company, ownership deeds for said properties are yet to be handed over. 8. Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake ordered several State and Private Banks to hand-over financial details of several suspects connected to the 4/21 attacks to the Criminal Investigations Department. 9. Ranil Wickremesinghe noted that the SOFA is not more than an agreement which was already signed in 1996 between the US Embassy in Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Finance.

10. Justice Minister Thalatha Atukorale has refuted claims that she had granted permission to establish a branch of the American Bar Association or any of its affiliated bodies.

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