Zelensky’s harsh words about US President Donald Trump was an emotional response after Zelensky deliberately thwarted Trump’s request that Ukraine not strike Russian refineries. Unfortunately Zelensky is making matters worse, and Ukraine’s
Spain’s handling of the HV Hondius cruise ship crisis has ignited both international praise and fierce domestic political backlash after the vessel carrying passengers exposed to a hantavirus outbreak was allowed to
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Sri Lanka celebrates, next week, the eradication of the bloodthirsty separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a conventional threat to the survival of this nation, at least in our hearts,
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Japan’s three largest banks are set to gain access to Claude Mythos, the powerful artificial intelligence model developed by U.S. startup Anthropic, in a move that could significantly reshape the cybersecurity landscape
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Forty years after the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, which provided for the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to assist Sri Lanka in dealing with its twin insurgencies — JVP and LTTE — and
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Eva Baltasar receives visitors in her home in Cardedeu, a quiet town on the edge of the Barcelona metropolitan area where city noise slowly dissolves into forest. The writer, born in Barcelona
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To speak of the Strait of Hormuz today is already to enter a language of reduction. In policy briefings and military analyses, it appears as a “chokepoint,” a narrow passage through which
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More than five decades after Sri Lanka’s 1971 insurrection shook the island nation, new testimonies from surviving participants, witnesses, and former insurgent leaders are reshaping understanding of how the rebellion unfolded —
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Austria has accused U.S. military aircraft linked to elite American special operations forces of entering its airspace without authorization on two consecutive days, triggering emergency fighter jet scrambles and raising fresh questions
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Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, once regarded as Sri Lanka’s dominant political strongman, appeared before the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) on Tuesday in a highly charged atmosphere marked
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More than 82.2 million people were living displaced within their own countries by the end of 2025 after fleeing armed conflict or natural disasters, according to the latest report from the Internal
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A political shockwave has hit Southern California after the mayor of Arcadia resigned and agreed to plead guilty to acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government while holding public office.
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The European Union agreed on Monday to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in violent attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, marking a rare moment of consensus within the bloc
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Satya Nadella delivered blistering testimony in court on Monday, describing the 2023 attempt by OpenAI’s board to remove chief executive Sam Altman as “amateur city,” during a closely watched legal battle involving
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A new political movement is quietly gathering momentum in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, raising fresh questions about the future of Tamil politics, the durability of the government’s support base and the
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Few political figures in modern South Asian history have left behind a legacy as layered, divisive and strangely entertaining as Junius Richard Jayewardene, the man widely remembered as J.R. Jayewardene or simply
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