Editorial Today is Narendra Modi’s birthday, and we believe it is important to write a few words about a political figure whose influence now extends far beyond the borders of India. Modi is 76 today, and his career has already altered the political vocabulary
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In 2024, after Anura Kumara Dissanayake became President, the Russian Ambassador met with him and delivered a special message from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The message included an invitation to attend the
A proposed amendment to Sri Lanka’s Anti-Corruption Act No. 9 of 2023 has drawn strong concern from a coalition of 86 local and international civil society organisations, which says the changes could significantly weaken transparency and the mechanisms governing the
The US Embassy in Colombo has declined to comment further on a special police investigation into a major narcotics seizure at the China-managed Colombo
Ranjan Senaratne Bandara, Officer-in-Charge of the ‘Q’ Division of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), has been arrested in connection with the continuing investigation into
The offer was blunt: $25,000 to track and kill a person in the Lithuanian capital who, according to U.S. prosecutors, was “telling lies about Russia”. The alleged approach came last year from Yuri Khrameev, a former military officer in the Russian intelligence services, who
Glaciers throughout the region have thinned by approximately half a metre each
At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed worldwide in 2025,
Turkey has released 106 demonstrators detained during a protest against a nationwide
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China reduced its holdings of US Treasuries to an 18-year low in July, highlighting a broader retreat by foreign holders of American government debt as concerns over the sustainability of Washington’s finances continued to weigh on the market. China’s holdings fell to US$618 billion
Children under 13 could be barred from using social media across the
Germany’s federal government has unveiled a ten-point plan aimed at strengthening the
At least 60 people have been killed after a gold mine collapsed
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Australia is set to tighten migration rules, including restricting international students from bringing partners and children with them, as the government moves to reduce net overseas migration amid growing political pressure over
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In 2024, after Anura Kumara Dissanayake became President, the Russian Ambassador met with him and delivered a special message from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The message included an invitation to attend the
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Editorial Today is Narendra Modi’s birthday, and we believe it is important to write a few words about a political figure whose influence now extends far beyond the borders of India. Modi
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The US Embassy in Colombo has declined to comment further on a special police investigation into a major narcotics seizure at the China-managed Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT), despite questions over the
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For two centuries, mathematicians have struggled with a deceptively simple question: can the equations that describe the movement of fluids suddenly break down? Now, according to reporting by New Scientist, OpenAI says its artificial intelligence systems have found a mathematical construction demonstrating that such
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The research team recovered 8173 arthropod remains, of which 8082 could be taxonomically identified, representing a minimum number of 5792 individuals. The remains included species associated with human decomposition as well as
The Government of Fiji has declared a national emergency to address a rapid increase in HIV infections, seeking to contain the virus and protect public health. The health crisis, first evident in January 2025, has seen infections rise sharply, with
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The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than they did a decade ago, threatening water security as the region moves
by Nil Sanjoy Hazarika’s most recent work, Lal Thanhawla: The Boy from Zarkawt, and the Making of Mizoram is presented as a biography, but its real ambition is considerably larger. “What started
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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
