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
Chinese cars may be largely absent from American highways, but Chinese influence is increasingly present under the hood of vehicles built and sold in the United States. A sprawling supply chain network—stretching
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It is one thing to imagine someone reading your diary. It is something else entirely to have it read aloud in a courtroom, dissected by lawyers, quoted in judicial rulings, and broadcast
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Pakistan and Bangladesh have taken a significant step toward formal security cooperation, signing what is effectively the first publicly acknowledged bilateral security framework between the two countries since the political upheaval that
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The end of Viktor Orbán’s long domination of Hungary arrived not with spectacle, but with ceremony. Inside Budapest’s vast neo-Gothic parliament building, beneath vaulted ceilings that once symbolized the permanence of his
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Ukraine’s celebrated wartime resilience is facing one of its most serious internal political crises since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, as a wave of leaked anti-corruption recordings threatens to draw President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Public resistance to artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from online outrage into a more volatile and confrontational movement, with growing numbers of threats, acts of intimidation, and attacks targeting individuals and institutions
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One month after the United States and Iran reached a fragile ceasefire agreement, the world’s humanitarian system remains under severe strain as the fallout from the conflict around the Strait of Hormuz
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Syria’s Interior Ministry has announced what it describes as a major crackdown on Hezbollah-linked cells operating inside the country, alleging that coordinated networks tied to Iran-backed actors were preparing assassination attempts, attacks
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The phrase “non-financial misconduct” sounds almost comically bland for a category of behaviour capable of shaking the world’s largest corporations. Yet inside boardrooms from New York to London, those three words —
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A devastating fire swept through the pharmaceutical warehouse of Jaffna Teaching Hospital early Saturday morning, destroying medicines and medical equipment worth billions of rupees, including life-saving cancer treatment drugs and other critical-care
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Northern Province Governor Nagalingam Vedanayagam has pledged that the government will continue investigations into enforced disappearance cases while ensuring justice and financial reparations for affected families, reaffirming a renewed state commitment to
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Sri Lanka’s leading print newspapers in Colombo have carried full-page advertisements linked to “Operation Sindoor,” appearing across English, Sinhala, and Tamil editions. The advertisements reference the 22 April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack,
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The following excerpts are adapted from the speech by General Secretary and President To Lam at the Sri Lankan Parliament. Sri Lanka holds a very special place in the historical memory and
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Russia staged a noticeably restrained Victory Day parade on Saturday in Moscow, reflecting the mounting pressures of its prolonged war in Ukraine and heightened security concerns over potential attacks. The annual May
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In an age marked by democratic erosion in multiple regions of the world, a historical and moral thread runs through acts of resistance that are not always loud or violent, but often
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