In a recent statement, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed his strong condemnation of the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of Hamas. This pronouncement was made during a
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The death toll in Tuesday’s multiple landslides in India’s southern state of Kerala further rose to 95, with more than 110 people injured, a local police officer told Xinhua over phone. At
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike on his residence in Tehran. Haniyeh was assassinated shortly after attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president and meeting with Supreme
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On July 28, the 70th birthday of Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), Nicolás Maduro Moros won the Venezuelan presidential election, the fifth since the Bolivarian Constitution was ratified in 1999. In January 2025, Maduro
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In History Today Dr. Tim Black, a British family planning pioneer tries to understand the origins of antisemitism, looking beyond the Holocaust to the ancient Middle East and Medieval Europe. Dr. Black,
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At the reception celebrating the 97th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Colombo on July 29, 2024, the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka delivered the following remarks
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A fundamental rights petition (SC/FR/221/2024) was filed in the Supreme Court today (July 30) by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) calling for action against the procedural violations and abuse of public trust
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by a Concerned Law-Abiding Citizen The judiciary, the bedrock of democracy, is entrusted with the solemn duty of upholding justice and ensuring the rule of law. However, history reveals instances where the
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Sri Lanka is poised to receive revenue from the China-built Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport after three years, following the handover of its operations to a consortium of Indian and Russian companies. This
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On March 20, 2003, as air raid sirens blared over Baghdad, darkness once again engulfed the country. “We have no ambition in Iraq, except to remove a threat and restore control of
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The mid-20th century saw a strong wave of anti-colonial struggles across Asia and Africa, leading to the independence of numerous countries. The British-controlled puppet regime of the Faisal dynasty began to falter
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by Matthew Rusling With U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent withdrawal from the 2024 elections, myriad uncertainties lie ahead in the race to the White House. The shift began last month, after critics
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There is an expectation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would prioritise a historic turnaround in India’s relations with China as a legacy of his 15 years in power. Things are indeed moving
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Hussein Ali Saeed, an 81-year-old resident, has spent his entire life in Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq renowned for its abundant oil reserves. As this retired Iraqi oil worker sees it,
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