by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The BRICS New Delhi Declaration is less a routine summit communiqué than a broad statement of intent about how its members believe the international system should
by Eric The appointment of a new Inspector General of Police (IGP) has arrived in Sri Lanka with the kind of fanfare reserved for political theatre rather than institutional renewal. His recent
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As President Vladimir Putin meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Anchorage for a high-stakes summit, the composition of the Russian delegation is attracting nearly as much attention as the talks themselves. According
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Major US technology companies are dramatically increasing spending on personal security for their chief executives, amid a surge in threats, public hostility, and incidents of violence targeting high-profile business leaders. According to
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC Sri Lanka is grappling with a litany of serious human rights issues, according to the United States Department of State’s 2024 Country Report on Human Rights
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Editorial Today, the thirteenth of August, we mark the nativity of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, a man whose silhouette looms still across the fractured cartography of the twentieth century. Born on the
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The recent moves by certain Western countries to recognise the Palestinian state have drawn sharp criticism from Israeli diplomats, who describe such actions as a setback for
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Editorial It is not often that one finds oneself compelled to praise a bureaucratic decision in an age when public administration has become synonymous with inertia, nepotism, and the sterile theatre of
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In July, a few days after the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, I had lunch with his daughter, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France. When I commented that Fanon had died so young, at thirty-nine,
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor In a matter of days, a summit of seismic import will convene — one poised to reverberate through the brittle scaffolding of an exhausted geopolitical order. Presidents
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The American Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck handed down to the aspirant-Nobel American president Donald Trump a golden maxim but he seems oblivious of it — although his life is made of
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