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
Editorial Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara has publicly accepted responsibility for the Negombo Prison tragedy. That statement cannot be treated as a symbolic gesture made during a moment of grief. In a country
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The gunshots and screams that echoed from Negombo prison in July 2026 marked a moment of profound alarm for the country’s correctional system. What unfolded inside the
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Editorial After his brief visit to the Vatican, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith returned to Colombo and told the people that they must follow their conscience. He spoke about how, throughout Sri Lanka’s modern
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Editorial Negombo Prison is not merely the scene of another prison riot. It is the scene of a state failure. Twenty-six people are now reported dead. More than hundred have been injured.
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Military-style training programmes for civilian co-operative jobs in Indonesia have come under intense scrutiny after several trainees died during mandatory boot camps, raising fresh concerns over the expanding role of the armed
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The Argentine judiciary has annulled a decree issued by President Javier Milei that sought to restrict the granting of Argentine citizenship to foreign nationals, ruling that the measure exceeded executive powers and
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A United Nations expert has warned that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance remain deeply entrenched across all levels of sport worldwide, urging states and sporting bodies to take coordinated action
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Warren Buffett has delayed his usual midyear donation to the Gates Foundation, breaking a two-decade pattern of annual contributions as he waits for the results of an internal review examining the foundation’s
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On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of the most devastating reports ever produced by a UN investigative
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Radical Islamist Pakistani origin mafia, the ill-famed ‘grooming gangs’ have got thoroughly exposed for their nefarious, rapacious, pervert and abusive sexual acts against vulnerable girls and women of non-muslim origin in United
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by Durga Velayudham There is something profoundly disturbing when retired President Bishop of the Methodist Church Sri Lanka, Rev. Asiri P. Perera, abandons the moral restraint expected of his office and instead
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The public debate surrounding the detention of former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay has entered a new phase following an exchange of open letters between his wife,
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When Nacho remembers the beginning of the abuse, he does not recall a single moment that defined the relationship. Instead, he remembers a gradual escalation: arguments that became routine, emotional pressure that
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A mother’s emotional appeal to Pope Leo XIV has placed fresh attention on the legal and humanitarian questions surrounding the detention of retired Major General Suresh Sallay, the former Director of Sri
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The German government has reached an agreement with the Taliban regime to accelerate the deportation of convicted Afghan criminals, according to German newspaper Bild. The arrangement, reached through “technical-level” negotiations because Berlin
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