by Our Correspondent in Colombo In an age where diplomacy is as much about optics as it is about policy, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has taken ‘attachment’ to a
This article is an edited version of a translation of Professor Jin Canrong’s piece published in the Global Times. The U.S. is now witnessing a third wave of capital division, characterized by
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The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has issued a statement addressing concerns raised in a report published yesterday by the Sri Lanka Guardian regarding the Colombo West International Terminal (CWIT) project.
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President-elect Donald Trump has issued a stark warning that the United States is closer than ever to World War III under the current administration. Speaking on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Trump
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The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has put its proposed $500 million loan to an Adani Group-backed port development project in Sri Lanka on hold, citing ongoing due diligence amidst bribery
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ifty years ago, Republican President Richard M. Nixon resigned from the nation’s highest office, becoming the only U.S. president so far to do so. There is much to be said about Nixon’s
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The global response to Donald Trump’s imminent return to power has been nothing short of remarkable. From Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu hinting at a potential Lebanon cease-fire as a “gift” to the president-elect,
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United Nations human rights experts have called on the United States to halt the use of nitrogen gas as a method of execution, condemning it as potentially amounting to torture or cruel,
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A senile US President, Joe Biden, has authorized (or at least told to authorize) long range missile strikes on Russian territory. His decision has pulled the rug out from German President Olaf Scholz,
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On August 5, months of violent street protests finally toppled Bangladesh’s elected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. When the military seized power and announced the imposition of a so-called “interim administration,” video footage
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A new study published in The Lancet has revealed that nearly 75% of adults in the United States were classified as overweight or obese as of 2021, underscoring a worsening health crisis.
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