A group of 15 teenage girls in southeast England has taken its campaign against the sexualisation of school uniforms to the British Parliament, calling for legislation to prohibit their use in pornographic
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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The article questions whether humanity’s endless pursuit of power, wealth, ambition and recognition reflects wisdom or folly, arguing that history repeatedly shows greed, jealousy and conflict bringing destruction without lasting gain, despite
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruling clearing the 22nd Amendment to proceed without a referendum has done more than settle a constitutional question. It has opened a deeper debate over the balance of
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Fifty years on, the bomb has stopped exploding, but the questions it left behind have not. The newly released records deepen the evidence surrounding Pinochet’s alleged role, while the most consequential findings
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The arrangements span Africa and Latin America and have already resulted in deportations to countries with which many migrants have no previous connection. Early agreements included flights to Costa Rica carrying migrants
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For 17-year-old Zara Shah, an encounter that began while playing a computer game developed into a frightening experience of online sexual exploitation. A stranger initially approached her as a friend before asking
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