The government in Colombo said it will make a formal response to the request made by Philip Alston , the UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
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Virtually rejecting India's appeal to "pause" hostilities with the LTTE, the Sri Lankan government said on Sunday that the conflict will "stop immediately" when the Tamil rebels lay down their arms.Colombo also said it had not received any formal communication so far from New Delhi in this regard.
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While there is no evidence to back up the report of a shooting, the Student Services and Performing Arts buildings, located at Harrison and Racine, were evacuated as a precaution."I'm standing up, and a police officer comes in with an assault rifle and says, 'Everybody get out.'
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Hadley suggests an MRI for a 'blind uterus' given the boy's geneticcondition. Foreman disagrees, saying other doctors would already have ruled that out, and House agrees the MRI would be a waste of time. ...
