Sri Lanka’s Government must take meaningful action to determine and disclose the fates and whereabouts of tens of thousands of people who have been subjected to enforced disappearance over the decades and
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A few years ago, I hired a ‘safari’ jeep to take me into the Bundala National Park, one of the world’s great bird reserves, on the south-east coast of Sri Lanka. After
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As many as 151 people have died to date from south Brazil’s worst climate disaster on record and another 104 people remain missing, the Civil Defense agency said Thursday. Since torrential rains
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Singapore Airlines transported 2.1 million passengers last month, up 20.3 percent year-on-year, according to the latest operating statistics. The low-cost airline Scoot within the same group recorded 1.06 million passengers in April,
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China’s AG600 large amphibious aircraft is accelerating its progress in the major flight test subjects, paving the way for its airworthiness certification, according to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). AG600
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In early April 2024, the navies of four countries—Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States—held a maritime exercise in the South China Sea. Australia’s Warramunga, Japan’s Akebono, the Philippines’ Antonio Luna, and the United
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Following the reapproval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on April 20, 2024, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proudly declared that “bipartisanship has prevailed here in the Senate.” Despite the increasing rarity
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by Our Special Correspondent in Geneva “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Following minor knee surgery, His Eminence Malcolm
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The title of this newsletter, ‘My heart makes my head swim’, comes from Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952). In a chapter called ‘The Fact of Blackness’, Fanon writes about the despair that
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You might be wondering … what’s it like to be the graduation speaker on an American college campus these days? On Monday evening, I got the chance to find out. Columbia University’s
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A collaborative effort between Chinese and international researchers has shed light on the evolutionary journey of baobab trees, pinpointing Madagascar as the cradle of all baobab species. Published on Wednesday in the
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The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 10:38 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, according to NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of
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The China Coast Guard on Wednesday issued radio warnings to Philippine ships trespassing into the waters under China’s jurisdiction. On the same day, when answering a foreign media question on Filipino fishing
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Voting for the first three phases in India’s general elections has concluded. A center-left coalition of parties and the right-wing incumbent coalition are vying for votes and clashing over the issues of
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by Peter G. Feher Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot several times in Handlova on Wednesday. The Slovak Prime Minister was transported by helicopter to the Banská Bystrica hospital in a life-threatening
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