Editorial As voting entered its most consequential moment, Donald Trump may have recognised the political damage awaiting his party. On Election Day, he announced that the United States would end its annual
The war in Iran is reshaping maritime transport as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupts one of the world’s most important arteries for energy supplies. Until March, the strait channelled
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C. discovered that he was being deported to Africa almost by accident. The 36-year-old Venezuelan had spent five years living and working in the United States. He had a temporary residence permit,
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On a cloudless night in August, a lawn chair offered a simple vantage point for watching the sky. It was the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, when as many as 100
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There was something revealing about the state of Reform UK in the decision to bring in an immaculately coiffured Frenchman to rally its annual conference. Jordan Bardella, who is expected to become
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For generations of aspiring investors, Robert Kiyosaki’s name has been closely associated with a simple but provocative proposition: debt can be a tool for building wealth. His 1997 bestseller, Rich Dad, Poor
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For nine months, the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln have lived largely within the confines of a warship. This week, 5,000 American military personnel arrived in and around Pattaya, Thailand, as
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For decades, successive US national security strategies have warned that violent non-state actors could acquire sophisticated technologies and use them to overcome conventional military advantages. Weapons of mass destruction, advanced military systems
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The economic pressure being exerted on Iran by the United States is inflicting severe hardship on the population without materially changing the country’s core demands or preventing Tehran from challenging US operations
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When Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) Government came to office in late 2024, it presented itself as a decisive break with the political culture that had dominated the country for decades.
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While the Iran War dominates international headlines, Russia continues to conduct increasingly brazen external operations on European soil. The pattern is becoming harder to dismiss as a series of isolated incidents: assassination
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The fragile ceasefire and current status quo of the war between the United States and Iran were tested over the weekend as the U.S. military launched its first strikes in over a
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A major crystal methamphetamine seizure at Colombo Port has taken an unexpected turn after the US Embassy in Colombo publicly claimed that the operation was the result
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Editorial Namal is rising. We do not know whether we are going to witness what the Philippines witnessed over the Marcos family, and it is far too early to predict such a
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Editorial The USS Abraham Lincoln is sailing towards Thailand after one of the longest and most punishing deployments in recent US military history. More than 5,000 sailors and Marines are expected to
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China’s first trade war with the United States in 2018 may have done more than disrupt global commerce. According to the latest issue of The China Leadership Monitor (CLM), it marked a
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