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2023 deadliest year in a decade for journalists: PEC

January 4, 2024
Journalism

A record number of journalists were killed last year, making 2023 the deadliest year in a decade for media workers, the Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) announced here on Wednesday. According to

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Trump asks Top Court to invalidate Colorado ruling over his ballot eligibility

January 4, 2024
United States

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which removed him from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. Two

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U.S. national debt tops 34 trillion for first time

January 4, 2024
United States

The U.S. federal government’s total public debt has surpassed 34 trillion U.S. dollars for the first time, the Treasury Department reported on Tuesday. The total public debt outstanding climbed to 34 trillion

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IMO Secretary-General condemns attacks against international shipping

January 4, 2024
Business

Statement by Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General, IMO, at Maintenance of International Peace and Security – United Nations Security Council, 9525th meeting Firstly, let me start by reiterating my condemnation of the attacks against international

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Sri Lanka: Salvaging MV Goshan

January 4, 2024
Defence

by Senior Retired Diving Officer Much has been circulated via oral and print media regarding Operation Goshan. Now I have been requested to submit my version of operation that took place about

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Can George Orwell or Aldous Huxley Be the Fate of the World?

January 4, 2024
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

HOW “LIMITLESS” CAN THE SINO-RUSIAN ENTENTE BE? Is the “limitless” friendship between Russia and China which has declared war on the superiority of the socialist system to reach the essentials to the

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Breaking News: Maldives Greenlights Chinese Research Vessel?

January 3, 2024
China/Maldives

by Special Correspondent Maldivian authorities have granted permission for the Chinese scientific research vessel Xiang Yang Hong 3 to dock in the Maldives at the end of this month, according to reliable

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Sri Lanka: Bouquets and Brickbats

January 3, 2024
Columns

The centrepiece of the events during the year 2023 is undoubtedly President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who agreed to become President and accepted the challenge to resuscitate the economy of the bankrupt nation. The

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Assassination of Martyr General Soleimani; State Terrorism in the Territory of a Third Country

January 3, 2024
Defence/Diplomacy

In the early morning of Friday, January 3, 2020, General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was on a special mission in Iraq, representing

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India’s arrogance and domineering diplomacy in Indian Ocean — A Chinese View  

January 3, 2024
Sri Lanka @75

The following article was originally published in Global Times, a Beijing-based daily newspaper. Hindustan Times reported on December 31 that Sri Lanka has informed India that it will not allow any Chinese

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UN chief sees assassination of Hamas leader in Beirut as worrying development

January 3, 2024
News

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sees the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in a suspected Israeli strike in Beirut as a worrying development, said a UN spokesperson on Tuesday. “Obviously, the developments

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A Hero’s Farewell: John Pilger’s Enduring Influence

January 3, 2024
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

John Pilger, who has died of pulmonary fibrosis aged 84, was a journalist who never shirked from saying the unsayable. Across half a century, in newspapers and in his documentary films –

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Can AI Help Foster a Compassionate Society: Insights from Michael Frank

January 3, 2024
Interviews

I recently had a discussion with my friend – and one of the most brilliant people I know – Michael Frank. Michael earned a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics and has authored

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Russia Steps Up Attacks on Ukraine After Rocket Strikes on Belgorod

January 3, 2024
Defence/Diplomacy

On January 1, 2024 Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian attack on the Russian city of Belgorod on December 30th “would not go unpunished.”  On December 31st the Russians launched some 50 drones at

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Fire On Japan Airlines Flight 516 – Some Systemic Issues

January 3, 2024
Aviation

The System A Japan Airlines Airbus A350 plane operating Flight 516 which departed from Sapporo’s New Chitose airport at 16:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on 2nd January and was scheduled to land at

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