Sri Lanka proposes end of wartime emergency laws

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's president Thursday proposed ending the wartime emergency laws that have curbed civil and political liberties in the country for most of the past 30 years. Parliament has extended the laws every month, but President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the legislature they were no ...

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