The ruling National People’s Power (NPP) government last week emphasised, in no uncertain terms, that it wouldn’t tolerate the growing Opposition challenge. Amidst the growing controversy over the continuing detention of retired
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On 22 June, Washington underscored its commitment to deepening ties with Colombo by announcing the provision of a Fleet Broadband satellite communications system valued at approximately US$4 million (over Rs. 1.2 billion)
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While the Islamic State (IS) no longer controls territory across Iraq and Syria as it did at the height of its power, the group is adapting to a transformed security environment, exploiting
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The systems that run military networks, critical infrastructure, businesses, and everyday devices are becoming more powerful, interconnected, and complex — but the ability to fully understand how they function has not kept
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The battle for socialist liberation in the twenty-first century cannot be fought with the weapons of the last century. In an era in which algorithms hold sway, in which the influence of
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The Iran–US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) emerged not from reconciliation, but from exhaustion and strategic failure by the United States and its allies. It was the product of a war that had
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has announced plans to begin the evacuation of more than 11,000 seafarers stranded in the Strait of Hormuz region following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding
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A United Nations human rights report has documented what it describes as the widespread and systematic use of conflict-related sexual violence throughout Sudan’s ongoing war, alleging that such abuses have accompanied the
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The global order is entering a harder-edged phase of realism, in which power increasingly rests on the ability to compel rather than the authority to persuade. Across regions, calculations of immediate advantage
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The Pathfinder Foundation hosted a luncheon meeting in Colombo on June 23 for Dr. S. Paul Kapur, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, bringing together
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