Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is important to understand that this money owed to foreign creditors is equivalent to 99% of
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President Donald Trump promised to unleash mass deportations on immigrants during his presidential campaign. But he has gone much further, with the disappearing of hundreds of Venezuelan nationals from the United States
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Once a beacon of resilience and hope, Bangladesh now teeters on the precipice of despotism, ensnared in the ruthless grip of monocracy and authoritarian might. The specter of Caesarism looms large, a
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The air is thick with the prognosis that a military confrontation between the US and Iran is now just a matter of time. Going by the pattern of such scare mongering in
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In September 2024, a well-known media outlet from Albania reached out to me for my perspective on a recent €2.7 billion deal between France and Serbia, signed by Presidents Macron and Vučić, to provide
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Switzerland. ‘Fight to the last cartridge, then use your bayonets!’ Gen. Henri Gulsan So warned the retired US general Ben Hodges in an interview with the newspaper SonntagsBlick. Hodges was the former US
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On March 8, 2025, six members of the Ahmadi community were arrested by the Khawaja Ajmer Nagri Police Station in the Surjani Town of Karachi city, after being taken into “protective custody”
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On 5 March 2025, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi stepped down as chief of the general staff of the Israeli military. He had held that post since 16 January 2023 and therefore led
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I am already on record saying that the present NPP cabinet is probably the most honest cabinet there has been in my lifetime. But today’s story shows what might be the first
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The Batalanda torture chamber was first exposed by the ‘Ravaya’ newspaper. The corruption and terror of the 17-year U.N.P. government were revealed by the ‘Ravaya’ newspaper. However, it is said that this
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Some of the critical challenges facing the AKD Government today are not dissimilar to those encountered in the 1970s. Back then, it was a right-wing government led by President J.R. Jayawardena. We
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. ~ Jules Verne The Plight of the World There is no doubt…the world is in chaos.
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Deshabandu Tennekoon, the suspended Inspector General of Police, surrendered to the Matara Magistrate last Wednesday after leading the force he once headed on a merry chase for some 20 days, resulting in
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Just days before its dissolution, Germany’s outgoing parliament rushed through a revision of the constitution and a massive spending package to facilitate unlimited borrowing for militarisation. Half a trillion euros have been
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I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself. ~ Dennis Potter The Closure and its Effects Usually, an airport never closes, particularly when it
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