Generative artificial intelligence has become a practical tool in terrorist and violent extremist activities, supporting attack planning, weapons acquisition, target selection and the preparation of ideological material, according to a new analysis
by Our Economic Affairs Editor There is a certain poetic irony in the life of Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor. A man who, when our nation teetered on the
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor The annual Container Port Performance Index issued by the World Bank yesterday offers a blunt reminder of how fragile, yet indispensable, the global maritime system has become.
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor In Colombo today, Maldivian officials visiting from Malé convened a press briefing at the High Commission to present the objectives of the recently enacted Media and Broadcasting
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“Democracy faces a perfect storm of autocratic resurgence… To fight back, democracies need to protect key elements of democracy, like elections and the rule of law, but also profoundly reform government so
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One mass shooting after another, one accidental child death after another tears through this country on an almost daily basis. Once again, lawmakers hide behind “thoughts and prayers,” while clinging to an
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor Today, 17 September 2025, Narendra Modi turns seventy-five, a milestone that is more than symbolic in the labyrinth of Indian politics. For a man who has redefined
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The sun blazed over Jerusalem that day, a relentless heat pressing down on the ancient stones, yet as we stepped into Shalva—the Israel Association for Children with
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Democratic governments across the world are under strain. Sri Lanka is no exception. Global crises – wars, climate change, economic turbulence, food insecurity, and the risk of new pandemics – test the
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Political divisions are not new to Sri Lanka. Nor are they unique to our country. History is littered with disputes, breakaways, and betrayals – often among those who once marched under the
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The aftereffects of years of lawless politics and lack of accountability among the political class and government servants are coming home to roost Sri Lanka after the National Peoples Power (NPP) government
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A previously undisclosed letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping has emerged as a key factor in the recent thaw of India-China relations, Bloomberg reports, signaling a cautious but meaningful shift in the
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Global political history is punctuated by state entities that, after vanishing from the international stage, have reemerged in new forms—sometimes radically transformed, sometimes strikingly faithful to their origins. These revived states—polities that
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Minister Bimal Rathnayake has said Ranil Wickremesinghe should have been arrested about four decades ago over the Batalanda torture chamber, the 1983 racial violence, etc. The former has also flayed the latter
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Editorial Note: This article, originally published in TomDispatch, examines humanity’s survival in the nuclear weapons era and the persistent risks posed by state policies. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history
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“…there is such a thing as suicide.” ~ Aldous Huxley (Texts and Pretexts) There is a picture (featured) of Ranil Wickremesinghe and Maithripala Sirisena seated side by side inside the Colombo Fort
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