Editorial Lal Wijenayake’s death removes a voice from the National People’s Power and Sri Lanka’s public life. His significance lies not in the offices he held, but in his refusal to let
The legacy of the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings continues to haunt Sri Lanka, as a dramatic new chapter unfolded in court with the arrest of former National Intelligence Service chief, retired
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UBS has suspended withdrawals from a €400mn European real estate fund for up to three years, in a dramatic move that underscores growing investor anxiety over global economic instability linked to escalating
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by Albert The Invitation That Never Happened In the pantheon of bizarre political theater, this one takes the golden crown. According to recent reports, the POTUS has revealed that Iran allegedly wanted
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Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, has indicated that the country is in a relatively strong position to manage potential economic shocks stemming from the ongoing war in the Middle
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When Britain faced the formidable threat of Nazi Germany in September 1939, the support of its global empire became a lifeline for the embattled nation. Across continents, from Canada and Australia to
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The B-2 Spirit, the United States’ iconic stealth bomber, has become a critical instrument in the ongoing U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, demonstrating capabilities unmatched by any other platform. Unlike the B-1B Lancer
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In a statement issued on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Sheikh Naim Qassem, framed the ongoing conflict in Lebanon as part of a broader “American-Israeli project” aimed at creating a so-called
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The USS Tripoli, an 844-foot amphibious assault ship, was observed making a brief port call at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean as it raced toward the Middle East to support the
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China’s meteoric rise in global influence reflects a carefully orchestrated strategy of “peaceful rise,” according to Frontline India. Unlike historical challengers to American primacy, Beijing does not seek outright confrontation with the
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The world is facing an oil crisis of historic proportions as the ongoing United States-Israeli war on Iran has effectively shut down much of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow chokepoint through
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The formation of our solar system’s rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—may have been far more complex than previously thought. For decades, scientists assumed that these planets coalesced from a single disc
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Japan’s beleaguered Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant discharged 55,011 tonnes of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean during fiscal year 2025, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO). The announcement, made
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After two decades of painstaking work, a team of scientists has uncovered the ultimate limitation of mouse cloning: even with ideal conditions, a single animal’s lineage cannot be perpetuated indefinitely. The results,
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Researchers have stunned the synthetic biology community by resurrecting “dead” bacterial cells through the transplantation of complete genomes from other species. Reported this month on the preprint server bioRxiv, the technique could
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When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev could not access the few fossils that might have contained traces of ancient DNA. But in 2000, inspiration struck
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