President Mahinda Rajapaksa sent the appeal to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, said Rajapaksa's media unit.
Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered the release of the jailed former army chief, Sarath Fonseka.
Sri Lanka's rugby authorities are investigating President Mahinda Rajapaksa's rugby-playing son after claims that he assaulted a referee.
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa's 2010 election manifesto this year declared that Sri Lanka was importing far too much food.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's UPFA party has enough seats for the move to succeed, but the process could take months.
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Like Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, did last year, Sheikh Hasina has used the forms of parliamentary democracy to undermine the substance.
Mahinda Rajapaksa's last coalition was cobbled together with crossover members from several parties, including the UNP and the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.
They had, the commissioner-general of prisons said, to be ready, even though the president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has yet to authorise an execution.
Yet the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa is making even moderate Tamils at home and overseas feel its victory as their defeat.
Foreign condemnation of its means serves only to harden the resolve of President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government to achieve its end, the crushing of the Tigers.
On Sunday President Mahinda Rajapaksa ratified parliament's vote to impeach her.
The rearranged matches were initially set to be played at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota and R Premadasa International Cricket Stadium, Colombo, on 3 and 6 February.
That is relevant because there are growing indications that the general may seek to enter politics as a presidential candidate against Mahinda Rajapaksa after quitting his military post.
Rejecting accusations that the government was responsible for the attacks, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has accused "internal and international forces" of trying to undermine army victories on the battlefield.
Sri Lanka has withdrawn its ambassador to Saudi Arabia in response to the execution, which Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa had twice asked Saudi King Abdullah to stop.
Clarity soon came from an unlikely source: President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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The resolution urged the government of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to address "continuing reports of violations of human rights" in the country, including threats to judicial independence and media intimidation.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, who had made personal appeals for clemency in Nafeek's case, said he and his government deplored the decision to go ahead with the execution.
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In the end the siege was lifted and Mr Weerawansa gave up his fast (after 52 hours) once President Mahinda Rajapaksa paid a visit and offered him a glass of water.
As the architect of this triumph, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, they said, was a second Dutugemunu, a Sinhalese king of the second century BC who slew an Indian Tamil invader from his war-elephant, Kandula.
Two recent court rulings found the impeachment process was unconstitutional, but earlier this month President Mahinda Rajapaksa ratified a vote in parliament - which is dominated by his supporters - to impeach her.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, pictured, who won the war and was returned to power as president with a stonking majority in January, is also minister of defence, finance and planning, ports and aviation and highways.
Critics add that the impeachment is aimed at swelling President Mahinda Rajapaksa's powers still further, and an umbrella group of lawyers has urged judges not to recognise any new chief justice imposed by the government.
Piyasena Rathuwithana, the eminent astrologer who has been advising Sri Lanka's many heads of state, including President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has told Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) that England, Australia and India will be the front-runners of the tournament.
Though Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa had promised an independent probe into allegations of human rights abuse, the U.S. and other governments say the country has failed to do so and its Tamil minority continues to face rights abuses.
She told the BBC that after an associate of the family of President Mahinda Rajapaksa bought a 72% stake in the paper, he asked her to stop carrying articles critical of the Rajapaksas - several of whom occupy senior government positions.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the defence minister, says the armed forces have tripled in number under his brother, Mahinda, the president.
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