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South Korean President Faces Impeachment After Martial Law Controversy

December 4, 2024
News

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing mounting calls for impeachment following his failed attempt to impose martial law, sparking the country’s worst constitutional crisis in decades. Opposition lawmakers, enraged by

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US Funding for Colombo Port Project in Doubt

December 4, 2024
Business/Corruption

Dr. Ganeshan Wignarajah, in his capacity as an advisor to the Sri Lankan President, and member of the Geopolitical Cartographer board, as mentioned in the latest Indo-Pacific Defence Forum, dealt with the

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State of civic space remains ‘repressed’ in Sri Lanka

December 4, 2024
Diplomacy/Human Rights

The CIVICUS Monitor announced in a new report Wednesday that the main civic space violations across the Asia-Pacific were the crackdown on protests and the criminalisation of human rights defenders. The report, People Power Under Attack 2024,

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US Secretly Controls Global Investigative Journalism Network

December 4, 2024
Journalism/News

A joint investigation by Mediapart, Drop Site News, Il Fatto Quotidiano, and other media outlets has uncovered that the US government secretly controls nearly half of the funding for the Organized Crime

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UAPs — Is There Life Elsewhere? Have They Already Visited Us?

December 4, 2024
Columns/Education

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~ Bill Watterson The study of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), once relegated

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Redemption — A Short Story

December 4, 2024
Diplomacy/Education

In a village nestled between emerald fields and azure skies, there lived a wealthy landowner named Rajendra. The scent of jasmine wafted through the air as he walked through his opulent estate,

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The Lie That Binds: Sri Lanka’s Rooted Socio-Political Illusion

December 4, 2024
Columns/Politics

by Luxman Aravind The act of lying is as old as governance itself. But what if the problem in politics is not the lies of the leaders, but the willingness of the

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Martial Law in Korea: A Disaster for South Korea and the United States

December 3, 2024
Columns

The Korean President’s martial law decree was rescinded by the Korean parliament, whose members voted despite the incursion of combat troops trying to break into meeting rooms in the parliament building. After lawmakers

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Exclusive: Pakistan’s Top Military Brass to Visit Sri Lanka

December 3, 2024
Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

by Our Defence Affairs Editor Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Asim Munir, will embark on a visit to Sri Lanka, from 9th to 12th December 2024, marking a significant diplomatic milestone between the

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South Korean Parliament Votes to Lift Martial Law Amid Escalating Political Crisis

December 3, 2024
News/South Korea

The South Korean parliament has voted to lift the state of martial law imposed earlier by President Yoon Suk Yeol, in a dramatic turn of events in the country’s deepening political crisis.

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Trump Jokes with Trudeau: Canada Should Become the 51st State if Tariffs Aren’t Handled

December 3, 2024
Canada/United States/World

In a candid moment during a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate, President-elect Donald Trump reportedly joked with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada should consider becoming the 51st U.S. state if

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Exclusive: Ukrainian Training and U.S. Tech Boost Syrian Anti-Assad Forces

December 3, 2024
Defence/News

by Our Correspondent in Doha Sources close to Syrian intelligence claim that Ukrainian advisers, equipped with advanced American electronic warfare equipment, played a pivotal role in facilitating the recent offensive by Hay’at

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Steering Through the Turbulent Tides of Sri Lankan Politics

December 3, 2024
Columns/Sri Lanka

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (popularly known as AKD) led National Peoples Power (NPP)’s landslide victory in the general election in November 2024 two-thirds majority – in parliament, sends many signals. The NPP

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Donald Lu and America’s Gambit in the Indian Ocean

December 3, 2024
Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

by Luxman Aravind Hours after escaping death, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, told the media, “I could have remained in power if I had surrendered the sovereignty of Saint Martin

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US Tightens Export Controls to Halt China’s Chip and AI Advancements

December 3, 2024
Diplomacy

The United States has unveiled a new set of stringent export controls aimed at stifling China’s progress in developing an advanced semiconductor industry and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with military applications. These

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