Ecuadorian leftist leader Luisa González recently warned that there is “a whole sinister network involving Marco Rubio, MAGA, and Latin American presidents who are destroying our countries to turn Latin America into their backyard.” A few days after her eerily prescient statement, she was
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The United Nations biodiversity conference in Armenia ended with a series of
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Name one Sri Lankan government that inherited a repressive law and declined to use it on its critics. The search is short, and it ends empty-handed. The Prevention of Terrorism Act was
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Uplifting the living standards of the plantation community in Sri Lanka and guaranteeing safe as well as permanent homeownership for them has been a primary national requirement for a long time. For
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