Fifteen of the 24 defendants tried over Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday bombings were found guilty on Tuesday, while the remaining nine were acquitted and ordered to be released, according to a
Europe is confronting a rapidly evolving security threat in which hostile states are increasingly relying on tactics once associated primarily with terrorist organizations and organized crime. According to analysis published by The
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Mali’s military government is facing one of the most serious security crises since seizing power, as coordinated offensives by al-Qaeda-linked militants and Tuareg separatists expose the growing fragility of the junta’s reliance
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The United States and Bangladesh are moving forward with a series of defence and trade agreements that are expected to significantly expand Washington’s military and strategic footprint in the Bay of Bengal.
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Taiwan on Saturday reaffirmed that it is a “sovereign and independent” nation and defended ongoing American arms sales as part of Washington’s long-standing security commitment to the island, following remarks by U.S.
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Since the start of 2026, a remote mining region in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has become the focus of mounting international concern after at least four reported landslides struck
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According to local media in Colombo, the ambitious plan to establish South Asia’s largest commercial and logistics complex within the Port of Colombo has been officially cancelled, marking a significant reversal in
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Our sister publication Lanka Courier’s social media channel has launched a new song titled Gen Z – Psyche: A Song of the Coded Chaos, a striking audio-lyrical
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In Sudan, hunger has become a silent weapon of war, tightening its grip on the youngest and most vulnerable as the country descends deeper into one of the world’s most severe humanitarian
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The Government of Sri Lanka has introduced a sweeping 50% surcharge on customs import duties for all imported motor vehicles, under an emergency order issued by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in his
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Cuba is not merely experiencing a crisis. It is living through the slow unravelling of a political project that once promised dignity through equality and sovereignty through
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A federal jury in Chicago has ordered Boeing to pay $49.5 million in compensation to the family of a woman killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash involving the Boeing 737 MAX
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The United States is confronting a far more entrenched rare earth dependency problem than its recent political rhetoric suggests. Over the past year, President Donald Trump has pushed an aggressive agenda aimed
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Peru’s celebrated culinary rise has become a global success story, but the foundations supporting it are under growing strain, according to reporting from Bloomberg. From high-altitude farms in the Sacred Valley to
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When Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te quietly stepped off a borrowed royal jet in the southern African kingdom of Eswatini earlier this month, he completed one of the most daring diplomatic journeys in
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Scientists have unveiled a colossal new dinosaur species discovered in Thailand, estimating that the enormous creature weighed as much as nine adult Asian elephants. The newly identified long-necked herbivore, named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis,
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