Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Veluppillai Prabhakaran along with many senior LTTE leaders was killed in the military confrontation with Sri Lanka’s armed forces in May 2009. With that military
OUSTED PRIME MINISTER IMRAN KHAN’S LETTER TO THE ECONOMIST In an article in the respected British journal, The Economist Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed doubt about the fairness of
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‘The West is in danger’, warned Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In his dangerously appealing style, Milei blamed ‘collectivism’ – that is, social welfare,
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Benjamin Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv and raised in Philadelphia, becoming an American citizen upon graduating from MIT. However, his files differ from other U.S. citizens as professor Neve
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CEREMONIAL PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY AMBASSADORS It is widely known that when an ambassador is appointed, he or she carries a letter to the head of state of the receiving country introducing
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On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: ‘Genocides are never declared in advance.
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Judging from events unfolding in various parts of the world, including the annihilation of the Palestinians in Gaza, the ever-widening income and wealth disparity between the rich and the poor, the hunger
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A few days after the October 7 attacks in northern Israel, The Atlantic Council ran an inflammatory article on its website by Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer, entitled “It doesn’t matter
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Late last year, a colleague sent me a letter decrying some of my writings about China, notably the last newsletter of 2023. This newsletter is my response to him. The situation in China is
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Irrespective of being rural or urban, everybody prefers the convenience of urban facilities. In a developed economy, the unit cost of goods and services is affordable to its citizens, and export-oriented products
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Though spatial planning is essential, it has received extremely low priority in Sri Lanka. Also, there have been issues of concern about the management of spatial development programmes and projects that have
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