The second US draft resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka, which was presented to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Thursday, has stuck to the original demand that the domestic judicial mechanism which the Lankan government is going to set up to try war crimes cases, should include foreign judges, defence lawyers, and authorized prosecutors and investigators.

Dharisha Bastians Reporting from Geneva

Contrary to reports from New Delhi, there is no proposal to build a bridge between India and Sri Lanka across the Palk Strait, according to the Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Sri Lanka's central bank is expected to keep its policy interest rates unchanged at record lows on Friday, a Reuters poll found.

“Trust us,” Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, Mangala Samaraweera, told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva just before the release of a landmark report into atrocities committed during the country’s long civil war, which ended in 2009.