United Nations human rights experts have condemned the arrest, alleged enforced disappearance and detention of six Egyptian journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the independent investigative media platform Matsadaash, warning
For more than three years, Manipur has offered India a warning it can no longer afford to treat as a peripheral crisis. The northeastern state bordering Myanmar has been fractured by violence
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned of the growing social risks posed by artificial intelligence, arguing that governments and policymakers still lack a concrete plan for containing the technology’s potential dangers. In
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Tariq Rahman’s India visit cancellation, ambiguity over BRICS, and hard push for Hasina’s extradition are nothing more than a simple domestic position-strengthening exercise that almost every Bangladesh Prime Minister from the BNP
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The political fight over Islam in Spain is no longer confined to mosques, immigration or religious clothing. It has reached school canteens, border debates and the language of “national priority”, as political
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Around 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition, with the condition threatening the lives of one million of them, according to the UN children’s agency UNICEF. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF’s
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The government’s high-profile bid to enact the 22nd Amendment has failed to secure tangible support beyond the NPP, either inside or outside Parliament. The Illankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) has rejected the
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China today represents not only a strategic challenge to the US‑led, rules‑based international order but also a profound test for democracy itself. For many smaller nations, Beijing’s rapid transformation from poverty to
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The message sent by the Andarab Resistance Front is one which can not be ignored even on the battlefield. The group declared Panjshir, Andarab, Badakhshan, Kabul and Kandahar as places where armed
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Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered the immediate launch of police operations to identify and deport irregular migrants, signalling a dramatic shift in the country’s approach to migration after more
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The mother of former State Intelligence Service chief Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay has appealed to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake not to extend her son’s detention, while making clear that she does
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When dissent is labeled as treason, democracy itself is under threat. In India today, the “Pakistani threat” has evolved from a genuine security issue into a political tool, justifying mass arrests and
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“Chabad wants to play a two-faced game, backing Israel’s most fanatic settlers on annexation but maintaining its non-political Jewish outreach image and funding…” ~ Rabbi Erich H Yoffie (Haaretz – 18. 6.2020)
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by Luxman Aravind Sri Lanka’s latest controversy over Chabad Houses has become something far more revealing than a dispute over a religious centre in a tourist town. It is becoming a case
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“Here I have shaken down a money tree. Now come and collect what you can…” S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike uttered these words at a public rally held to secure the victory of Henry Abeywickrama,
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Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan is no longer defined by the nationwide war that consumed it for two decades. The Taliban controls the country, large-scale fighting has receded,
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