The 22 September 2026 Trial-at-Bar judgment provides a detailed account of the alleged network behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, tracing the prosecution’s case from ideological indoctrination and recruitment to weapons,
A troubling new pattern is emerging in the United States, one that has left investigators grasping for language and communities struggling to understand why acts of extreme violence keep occurring. As documented
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Terrorist networks have increasingly leveraged social media platforms as powerful tools for advancing their agendas. These digital spaces allow for the rapid dissemination of content, enabling groups to craft narratives that distort
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Sri Lankan police have arrested a businessman on grave allegations of sexually abusing more than thirty-six children under the age of eighteen, in a case that has sent shockwaves across the country.
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Fraud is no longer a peripheral crime affecting a careless few. It is now the most prevalent offence in the UK, eclipsing burglary, violent crime and car theft combined, and costing victims
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Editorial America likes to imagine itself as a republic born of virtue: powdered wigs, stern faces, and a constitutional order designed to keep human weakness on a short leash. Yet the latest
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Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access artificial intelligence chatbot companions despite internal warnings that the tools were capable of sexual and romantic interactions, according to internal company documents
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The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has revealed that 84 individuals were arrested last year for accepting bribes, following a series of 130 raids conducted across Sri Lanka
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On 25 January 2026, the Government of Bangladesh issued the July Mass Uprising (Protection and Determination of Liability) Ordinance, 2026, a presidential decree that grants sweeping immunity to all participants in the July 2024
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Maldives recorded no terrorism-linked fatality in 2025. The abduction and killing of blogger Yameen Rasheed by a local affiliate of Al-Qaeda on April 23, 2017, was the last terrorism related incident in
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Britain has quietly brought back a small number of women and children associated with Islamic State who were detained in Syria alongside Shamima Begum, according to officials running the camps where they
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“Why did you keep Shiva Pasupathi in place, Sir? Wasn’t he Sirimavo’s man…?” This was how ministers within J. R. Jayewardene’s Cabinet questioned his decision to retain Shiva Pasupathi as Attorney General—a
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China’s Communist Party has opened an investigation into two of its most senior military figures, a move that underscores the depth and persistence of President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign and raises
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Sri Lanka’s security forces reported the largest drug seizure in the country’s history in 2025, confiscating an unprecedented 23,692 kilograms and 307 grams of illegal narcotics, officials said at a special media
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A United Nations rights official has raised the alarm over a sharp rise in executions worldwide in 2025, driven largely by a handful of countries that have intensified capital punishment despite global
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Guatemala’s fragile calm shattered on Sunday as security forces reclaimed a prison seized by inmates and captured a top gang leader, only to be met with a coordinated eruption of violence across
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