China has emerged as the leading centre for clinical development and testing of a new generation of CAR-T-cell therapies that could eventually be used against cancer and autoimmune diseases, according to an
Declaring that the government of Sri Lanka, while combating ‘Tamil Organizations’ which were fighting for a Tamil Homeland in the North-East, committed genocide against the Tamil people, a resolution was tabled in
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This fictional letter serves as a satirical cautionary tale, offering a blend of philosophical reflections on power and political maneuvering with a poignant plea for peace and wisdom in international relations. Imagining
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Considering whether modern states are empires tells us almost nothing useful about either modern states or empires. A better question is what policies and structures pioneered by empires are still employed by
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On the evening of 14 May, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken climbed onstage at Barman Dictat in Kyiv, Ukraine, to pick up an electric guitar and join the Ukrainian punk band
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by Kelum Bandara A number of leading NGOs funded by various foreign sources for projects such as gender rights, human rights and democratic governance have been registered only as guaranteed companies under
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In the apartment of my friends in Baghdad (Iraq), they tell me about how each of them had been impacted by the ugliness of the 2003 U.S.-imposed illegal war on their country.
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Six people were killed last week in New Caledonia following widespread unrest triggered by changes to voting rules approved by French lawmakers. The changes would allow individuals who moved to the island after 1998
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Parliamentarian Akilan Manoharan Ganesan found fault with the US-led Western powers, successive post-war governments and one-time LTTE mouthpiece, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) for what he terms the continuing predicament of the
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If a colloquium on early entrepreneurs had been convened in the early 20th century, most participants would have viewed traders as operating on their own, bartering at prices that settled at a
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Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, who oversees 18 separate agencies comprising the wider “intelligence community”—including the CIA, FBI, and NSA—has released a “policy framework for commercially available information.” It is not only
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The Foreign Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka, Ali Sabry, met with the Secretary General and a delegation from Amnesty International at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today. During the meeting, Minister Sabry
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won a victory in his ongoing battle against extradition from the United Kingdom (UK) to the United States, after the High Court in London granted him
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During the war, leaders of the Allied countries—the Soviet Union, United States, and Great Britain—received reports of mass shootings of Jewish civilians, including women and children. In 1942, they learned of the
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Following article based on the speech by the author as the President of Sri Lanka at the World WaterForum in Bali, Indonesia. At the outset let me thank the President of the
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The Russian Embassy in Colombo has issued a strong statement criticizing what it describes as Western double standards regarding human rights issues in Sri Lanka. This press release comes in response to
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