Sri Lanka’s nationwide electricity failure on the 17th began with the sudden loss of 187 megawatts of power from the first generating unit of the Lakvijaya coal-fired power station in Norochcholai, according
Editor’s Note: In this week’s global news dispatches, political and social unrest takes center stage as governments grapple with growing challenges. From escalating political tensions in Honduras, continued military actions in the
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In a statement, Bandu Ranga Kariyawasam, Director of the Human & Environmental Resources Development Foundation (HERD), sounded the alarm over Sri Lanka’s increasingly precarious position between India and China. He cautioned that
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by Gurdip Singh Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday began his visit to Singapore, aimed at boosting bilateral friendship, deepening ‘strategic partnership’ and attracting investment from the Southeast Asian nation. During his
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Under the strategic leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, bilateral relations have developed rapidly in recent years,
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Turkey has formally requested to join the BRICS group, a coalition of major emerging economies, according to a statement from Omer Celik, spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development
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by Xinhua writer Chen Wangqi “The sky here’s very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it’s a solid thing up there, protecting us from what’s behind.”
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The hyping of the so-called China’s “overcapacity” risks hindering global technological advancement and green transition, harming the interests of consumers worldwide, and exacerbating global economic risks, experts have pointed out. The hyping
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China’s modernization process has made great strides with amazing development speed in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, reporters and media representatives from the Belt and Road countries and beyond have said. During a
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India’s major west coast ports, particularly Mundra Port, are facing a growing crisis as container flows are severely impacted by extreme weather and lingering capacity challenges. Torrential rain and flooding have compounded
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The United States has seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s airplane in the Dominican Republic, citing sanctions laws, the Justice Department announced Monday. “This morning, the Justice Department seized an aircraft we allege
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Severe weather conditions, including thick fog, were primarily responsible for the helicopter crash in May that resulted in the death of Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi, IRIB news agency reported on Sunday,
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by Our Political Affairs Correspondent Indian National Security Adviser, Ajit Kumar Doval KC PPMPM, during his recent visit to Sri Lanka, held discussions with representatives from key Muslim political parties. The Sri
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by Xinhua writers Wang Zongnan, Zhao Zhiqin “Debt-trap” is a term to describe an international financial relationship where a creditor country or institution extends debt to a borrowing nation with the intention
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Three years after the U.S.-led troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the country remains deeply scarred by 20 years of war and struggles to rebuild amid an economic collapse exacerbated by international sanctions. In
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Moscow will not be intimidated by U.S. efforts to brandish its “nuclear sledgehammer,” local media on Thursday cited Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia. “The subcritical experiment conducted
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