There are moments in the long march of international affairs when a summit, otherwise destined for the archives of routine diplomacy, acquires the resonance of a turning point. The BRICS Summit convened
The recently passed Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (PECA), has sparked significant controversy, particularly among journalists and media organizations in Pakistan. On January 23, 2025, the National Assembly of Pakistan
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. ~ Simon Wiesenthal The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust falls each year on
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by Our Correspondent in Doha Some elements of the Israeli media seem utterly incapable of tolerating the sight of returning hostages looking anything less than emaciated, shattered, or broken. The idea that
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Lenin has often been quoted (possibly mis-quoted) as saying “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen.” Regardless of the accuracy of the attribution, this week will
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by Luxman Aravind One could only chuckle, if it weren’t such an exquisite tragedy, at the state of the Sri Lankan government, which continues to gallivant through a delusional haze, unburdened by
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The discussion surrounding the potential adoption of nuclear energy by Sri Lanka has gained traction in recent months. The current National People’s Power (NPP) government in Sri Lanka has expressed support for
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In recent articles I have emphasized that President Trump and his supporters are in a life and death fight with cultural marxists who are dedicated to America’s destruction and who are institutionalized
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“Can the Rajapaksas go to Hambantota now and do politics?” This was the question posed by former State Defence Minister Ranjan Wijeratne in Parliament, silencing then-opposition MP Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mahinda, who had
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In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military intervention—announced, “We have decided on the coordinated and organized withdrawal
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The flood of headlines about US President Donald Trump’s first days back in the White House are stunning but unsurprising. We have grown accustomed to his hyperactivity. Yet, unlike eight years ago,
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George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist often regarded as a master of wielding soft power, is facing an unprecedented challenge to his influence. The erosion of key political alliances, compounded by the emergence
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Russia and Iran, as two immediate neighbours and great powers with a glorious history, had a difficult, chequered relationship through centuries. It goes to the credit of Iranian pragmatism that it learned
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Over more than a thousand years, Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling empires, the Venetian Republic avoided foreign rule, revolution, and collapse.
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The ocean absorbs 90 percent of the excess heat generated by burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is the primary driver of long-term global warming. Today, humanity is
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ Confucious International Day of Education falls on 24 January each year. Under the theme “AI and Education: Preserving Human Agency
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