The prospect of artificial intelligence destroying humanity has become a prominent part of the technology industry’s public debate, but Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues that the more immediate danger lies elsewhere: the
The prospect of artificial intelligence destroying humanity has become a prominent part of the technology industry’s public debate, but Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues that the more immediate danger lies elsewhere: the
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A significant discrepancy has emerged between a population figure published by Sri Lanka’s Central Bank for the Northern Province and the latest official census data issued by the Department of Census and
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When Benjamin Netanyahu rose to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, the rows of empty seats spoke before he did. Diplomats walked out, while others stayed away from the
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Sri Lanka has every right to speak forcefully on Palestine and international justice. But moral authority abroad cannot substitute for diplomatic precision at home. With the current account weakening, thousands of workers
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Pope Leo XIV has rejected describing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church simply as a “systemic” problem, while acknowledging that some church organisations had at times operated “as an abusive system”. His
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On 22 September 2026, the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) – a banned Baloch ethno-nationalist separatist group in Pakistan, waging an insurgency in Balochistan, allegedly from bases in Afghanistan – claimed that its
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Pope Leo has reaffirmed his commitment to preventing the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests during a private meeting with seven survivors in France, the Vatican said on Sunday, hours after
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The investigation into a dilapidated duplex in North Philadelphia has uncovered evidence involving 58 women who authorities say appear to have been sexually exploited, while investigators examine more than a million photographs
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End Times Fascism argues that the real danger is not simply the return of twentieth-century fascism, but the emergence of a politics that treats planetary crisis as inevitable, profitable and even desirable.
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Over the past two years, young people around the world have taken to the streets. From Kenya to Nepal, Indonesia to the Philippines, from Madagascar to Morocco, and in Peru, they rise
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Sri Lankan social activist Arun Siddharth has criticised Canadian actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan over her public expression of pride in being a “Tamil Eelam woman”, arguing that celebrating the idea of Tamil Eelam
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Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has accused the government and President Anura Kumara Dissanayake of undermining democratic institutions, saying the country is being pushed from democracy towards dictatorship. Addressing Parliament on
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When people hear the word “diplomacy,” they usually picture men in dark suits walking into marble buildings, flags behind them, cameras flashing. That picture is not wrong. It is just incomplete. There
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Human Rights Watch says women detained in Myanmar face widespread torture, sexual violence and serious medical neglect, with thousands of political prisoners held since the military seized power in the 2021 coup.
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Tamil political parties and politicians are seeking political advantage from Thileepan’s death. Last year, Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources Minister Ramalingham Chandrasekaran was prevented from entering the Thileepan memorial in Nallur on
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