United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung hosted an event in Colombo on June 22 to mark the 247th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence. Ambassador Chung took the opportunity to also
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The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Thursday that a debris field found by searchers near the Titanic earlier in the day is wreckage from the missing Titan submersible. In a press briefing
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“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” ~ Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West The Issue The Government of Sri Lanka, under Extraordinary
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The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) headquarters are in the heart of Washington, a stone’s throw from the White House, Lincoln Memorial, Treasury Department, Organisation of American States (OAS) and Federal Reserve (the
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It is difficult to make sense of many events these days. France’s behaviour, for instance, is hard to square. On the one hand, French President Emmanuel Macron changed his mind to support Ukraine’s entry
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The writings critiquing Western knowledge and the West’s depiction of Asia are being often received a higher admiration from the academia in the Global South as profound attempts that try to question
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The Summit for a New Global Financing Pact will be held in Paris on June 22 and 23. Its stated goal is to build a new contract between the countries of the
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Imagine the aftermath of the war in Ukraine, a country worn out by destruction and in need of reconstruction. On the 483rd day of the conflict, on June 21, 2023, the West
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In a compelling speech delivered at the Third United Nations High-Level Conference on Counter-Terrorism, Major General Suresh Sallay, Director of the State Intelligence Service in Sri Lanka, highlighted the evolving global threat
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It is widely known that in the mid-20th century, renowned British sociologist T.H. Marshall delivered a lecture entitled “citizenship and social class” at Cambridge University in 1949, which resulted in a significant
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Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees have been pouring into neighboring countries in the past months following the breakout of an armed conflict in Sudan, straining the host countries’ meager resources and
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A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published in June 2023 reveals that approximately 9.2 million people in the U.S. try to save money by rationing their medication. This study is based on
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