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Colombo has expressed concern to Saudi Arabia after a Sri Lankan housemaid working in the country was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, an official said on Monday. Colombo has expressed concern to Saudi Arabia after a 45-year-old Sri Lankan maid was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in the country, with the islands minority Muslim population appealing to King Salman for leniency. AFP Photo Foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera met the Saudi envoy to Colombo last week and raised the case of the
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Two days after an uprising toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak, Cairo s citizens were treated to a bizarre sight on Sunday when the police who had protected his regime
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