In a fragrant garden near San Francisco, Hamid Hayat, 43, tells his story over a coldening frittata. He is a thin man in jeans, a T-shirt and a Dallas Cowboys cap. Almost every sentence begins with the same two words: “Honestly speaking.” The phrase
When Jim O’Neill, then head of global economic research at Goldman Sachs,
On September 12–13, 2026, India will take centre stage as host of
Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Europe’s terrorist threat has
A U.S. military judge has set June 5, 2028, as the new
by Our Correspondent in Colombo A constitutional and institutional dilemma is emerging at the heart of Sri Lanka’s Parliament over the position of its current Speaker, Jagath Wickramaratne, following reports that the
Editorial Sri Lanka’s exclusion from meaningful participation in BRICS should be treated as a diplomatic failure, not disguised as another routine event in international affairs. A country that has moved closer to India than at almost any point in its
Sri Lanka’s fishing industry, a major contributor to the country’s economy and a source of livelihood for large numbers of people, is facing a
Drug shortages in public hospitals in Sri Lanka has been an endemic problem for decades and the reasons for this are many and varied.
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At 10:50 a.m., a large convoy of vehicles sped through the main gate of the Government Palace’s courtyard under heavy security. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped out of one of the vehicles and was greeted by President Keiko Fujimori, who was waiting
The return of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India marks a potentially
More than a century ago, Franz Kafka imagined an America where politics
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Sri Lanka Guardian Essays
Twenty-Five Years After the Day That Changed Aviation On 11 September 2001, the world of humanity lost trust in one another. On 11 September 2026, the international community marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that changed, perhaps irrevocably, the manner in which
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US President Donald Trump has rejected a reported request from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to launch US strikes against Yemen’s Houthi movement, as Washington seeks to contain the escalating conflict without becoming directly involved. The crown prince called Trump twice on Thursday
A documentary examining Israel’s use of artificial intelligence in military operations in
Three former leaders of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of
US television host Jimmy Kimmel has announced that an interview with Democratic
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it has blocked several attempts in recent
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Meta continues to face scrutiny over its handling of child sexual abuse material after a new report found that paid advertisements containing AI-generated abuse imagery continued to run on Facebook and Instagram
The mountain section whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the disaster, according to meteorological data reconstructed and analysed by Robert Rohde, chief scientist at the independent
Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global
For more than a century, the idea of replacing a failing human organ with one taken from an animal has hovered between medical ambition
BOOKS & REVIEWS
by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
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