by Our Special Correspondent in Jaffna An interim archaeological investigation at Chemmani in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district has recovered 574 minimum-number-of-individuals human skeletons, documented 51 accumulations of disarticulated bones and registered
Kim Aris, the youngest son of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has spoken to his mother for the first time in five years, in a development that has provided rare information about her condition and renewed attention
Thousands of people demonstrated across Poland to demand abortion rights, accusing Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government of failing to deliver on its election promise
Alleged irregularities in medical procurement in Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have exposed vulnerabilities in public purchasing, including suspected price inflation, manipulated tenders and
Editorial Asia’s glittering skylines tell a lie. Beneath the gleam of new money, towering tech empires and the rhetoric of “inclusive growth”, the continent is quietly eating itself alive. Oxfam’s report, An
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A new SIPRI report argues that the region’s future will not be determined by military might or foreign aid alone — it will hinge on whether governments, communities, and international actors can
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An alarming new Oxfam report warns of an ever-deepening divide between Asia’s rich and poor. The wealthiest 10% capture 77% of the region’s income, while over half a billion people survive on
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by Durga Dr Gwen Adshead’s Four Questions About Violence is one of those deceptively calm titles that conceals a detonator. It’s a book written by a forensic psychiatrist who has spent decades
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Striking workers at Boeing Defense in the St. Louis area have rejected the company’s latest contract proposal, extending a strike that has already lasted 13 weeks and delayed deliveries of F-15EX fighter
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Nearly 4,400 people have been abused by Catholic priests in Italy in cases reported since 2020, according to a victims’ association that urged church leaders to confront what it called a deepening
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A United Nations expert has urged governments around the world to resist the temptation of “techno-solutionism” in their justice systems, warning that artificial intelligence (AI) must never replace the human judgment and
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“No child should be resilient to slaughter, genocide, and massacre. Being resilient is used to justify what is happening before our eyes and later we will call them survivors.”Pradeep Samanjeeva, Project Medical
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On a blustery September afternoon in Tuam, 20 miles north of Galway, the quiet streets of the Dublin Road estate conceal a harrowing past. Behind the rows of late-1970s terraced houses, a
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The overnight clashes of October 11–12, 2025, along the volatile 2,640-kilometre Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan marked one of the deadliest confrontations in recent years, resulting in several deaths and reigniting
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Global warming is accelerating past dangerous thresholds faster than previously expected, with the world’s coral reefs now undergoing what scientists describe as an “almost irreversible die-off” — marking the first major tipping
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday proposed a four-point plan aimed at accelerating women’s all-round development, emphasizing the importance of peace, inclusiveness, and global cooperation in promoting gender equality. Addressing the opening
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When her mother passed away, I immediately sent Arundhati Roy my condolences, recalling our brief meeting in Sweden with another remarkable figure, Daniel Ellsberg, the man behind the Pentagon Papers. I wrote,
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From the rubble of his destroyed home in Khan Yunis, 29-year-old computer technician Hamza al-Shami looked across a landscape of utter devastation. As the ceasefire began in Gaza on Friday, he rushed
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The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), nestled in the southeast of Bangladesh, have long been the homeland of the Chakmas, Marmas, Tanchangya, Tripura, and other indigenous communities. These peoples have cultivated their ancestral
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