Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
The Iranians have demonstrated that Trump badly misjudged their capability. Trump is now calling on other countries, with little success, to send their warships to help keep open the Strait of Hormuz as
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The Summit in Miami On 7 March 2026, at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Donald Trump inaugurated the “Shield of the Americas” summit, convening right-wing leaders from Latin America
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, recently has strongly refuted claims that the Tamil communities in the Northern and Eastern provinces harbor opposition to China.
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The war on Iran and the obliteration of Gaza is the beginning. Welcome to the new world order. The age of technologically-advanced barbarism. There are no rules for the strong, only for
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The escalating confrontation between Pakistan and Afghanistan is colliding with widening turmoil in the Middle East, creating new economic and security pressures across South Asia. As Islamabad and the Taliban exchange air
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For Paki Wieland (1944-2026), who fought the cruelty of US imperialism all her adult life. The morning of my departure from José Martí Airport, named after the father of the nation, I
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa inherited a lower-middle income country and bankrupted it in two years and five months. Donald Trump is likely to upend the world in a much shorter time. If he doesn’t
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Two violent incidents in the United States, occurring within hours of each other, have drawn intense attention from security agencies and policy analysts. In Michigan, a pickup truck rammed into Temple Israel
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Year after year, global climate meetings take place in one part of the world or another, ever since 1995, with the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP) having taken place in November
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Last week, speaking at a House Republican retreat, President Trump declared with characteristic certainty: “The world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us before… the United States has
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While the world watches the escalating conflict between Iran, the United States, and Israel, one figure seems to be quietly capitalizing on the situation: Vladimir Putin. Moscow has been accused of providing
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In one of Abu Dhabi’s largest malls, martial Emirati music echoed across near-empty corridors. Shop assistants folded trousers with listless efficiency while cleaners mopped floors, their movements almost ceremonial against a backdrop
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United States President Donald Trump may be confronting a dangerous strategic dilemma as the war with Iran enters its third week, with analysts warning that the conflict could trap his administration in
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by A Special Correspondent in Geneva Two days ago the defamation case against Father Cyril Gamini, a spokesman for Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, came before court and was postponed for another month. When
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by Durga Velayudham The Strait of Hormuz has once again emerged as the Rubicon in Donald Trump’s confrontation with Iran, a perilous threshold across which the contemporary superpower system appears increasingly inclined
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