The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
Editor’s Note: The following essay is based on the original article published in the Colombo-based newspaper Aruna. The article was originally written in Sinhala by journalist Nirosha Wasala and was based on
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The latest round of tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban authorities has once again been accompanied by allegations of civilian casualties resulting from Pakistani military actions. Such allegations inevitably attract international attention,
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While Israel and Iran have been at loggerheads for several years now, by and large, the Middle East countries such as Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia have kept themselves aloof
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The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the modern world. For more than a century, authoritarian ideologies have sought
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There are moments in history when certain truths transcend the realm of partisan disputation and ascend into the sanctified domain of national memory. Such truths are not manufactured by eloquence, nor are
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo For years, the search for accountability over Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks has unfolded through investigations, commissions, political disputes, public campaigns, and courtroom proceedings. Now, a
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They crossed the border from Sudan carrying the consequences of a devastating war, seeking protection from violence that had already forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. But for some Sudanese
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In the vast desert routes connecting Libya and Sudan, a group of fighters searching through documents recovered from an enemy convoy uncovered evidence of a new dimension in Sudan’s civil war. Among
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Europe’s NATO allies are moving to address a new challenge at the heart of the continent’s defence strategy: how to replace key military capabilities that the United States will no longer keep
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Donald Trump’s second term has precipitated a tsunami of criticism from Democrats over his foreign policy. Yet when it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive
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Sixty to seventy percent of Mexico’s terrain is classified as arid or semiarid desert, typically with no rain for eight to nine months a year. La pipa, the water truck, brings enough water to
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Deceit, thy name is betrayal—Jamaat-e-Islami and the inexorable judgment of history! History possesses a memory far longer than political expediency and a conscience far sterner than the fleeting passions of the moment.
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Like oil in the twentieth century, lithium is the ‘white gold’ of the twenty-first. Demand for this key element is driving economic growth based on the ‘renewable’ energy provided by lithium-ion batteries.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that Haiti is facing the most severe humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere, driven by escalating gang violence, mass displacement, widespread hunger and a critically
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Poland has taken a major step toward hosting a permanent United States military base after Prime Minister Donald Tusk authorized preparations for a long-term American deployment, signaling a deeper strategic partnership with
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