Leaving Russia no longer necessarily means leaving Russian repression behind. According to a new report presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Russian Federation has developed a systematic and institutionalised
Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez has renewed calls for the International Monetary Fund to release approximately $5 billion in frozen Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), originally requested by President Nicolás Maduro in 2020.
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The ongoing controversy over Agriculture, Lands, Irrigation and Livestock Minister K.D. Lal Kantha’s three-storeyed luxury house has intensified pressure on the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) government struggling to
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El Salvador has launched one of the largest criminal trials in its modern history, placing 486 alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) on trial in a sweeping case that underscores the
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In the ancient Mediterranean city of Tiro, in southern Lebanon, the atmosphere is thick with anxiety rather than the calm often associated with its seaside landscape and historic ruins. Once known as
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A growing wave of arrests and deportations in Egypt has placed thousands of Sudanese and Syrian refugees in an increasingly precarious situation, according to testimonies from affected families and human rights organizations.
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In a dramatic turn that underscored the volatility of the Iran–U.S. standoff, President Donald Trump moved to extend a fragile ceasefire with Tehran only hours before it was due to expire. The
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo “General Suresh Sallay was not arrested on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by the court… the arrest of General Suresh Sallay was carried out without
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Japan is moving toward stricter regulation of social media platforms by considering rules that would require age-based content filtering to be enabled by default, alongside a new system to evaluate the risks
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Sri Lanka has intensified its efforts to combat terrorism financing by strengthening the implementation of Targeted Financial Sanctions, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Defence. The move signals a
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Once upon a time there was a magical little country named Lebanon. It was created by French imperialists out of the post-World War 1 wreckage of the Ottoman Empire as a mountainous
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After the collapse of the first round of talks, a second round is on the horizon but is already on the brink of failure, as Iran remains unwilling to negotiate further with
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The newly appointed Governor of the Bank of Korea, Hyun Song Shin, used his inaugural address in Seoul on April 21, 2026, to deliver a stark assessment of the global and domestic
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A deeply emotional case of family separation has drawn renewed attention to U.S. immigration enforcement after a Peruvian father was deported despite pleading with authorities to consider his family’s medical hardships. The
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A deceased senior figure of Colombia’s Catholic Church has been accused of repeated sexual abuse, in revelations that are intensifying scrutiny of institutional responses to such allegations. A man identified as Andrés
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Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, widely regarded as the richest man in Ukraine, has made headlines with the purchase of a sprawling five-story luxury apartment in Monaco for an astonishing 471 million euros,
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