Sri Lanka’s post-1978 political history offers a curious pattern: constitutional amendments designed to strengthen those in power have often produced consequences that later weakened or destroyed them. From the Second Amendment and
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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The Vatican has opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against Spanish Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, the Archbishop of Rabat, after several adult women accused him of inappropriate conduct, according
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A reform proposal buried near the bottom of the German government’s “Programme for Growth and Employment” has triggered a major debate over the future of transparency in public administration. Listed as point
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Humanitarian education refers to educational initiatives developed or supported by humanitarian organizations to reduce suffering, protect vulnerable populations, and help communities recover from conflict and disaster. The United Nations High Commissioner for
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday that it is making available more than $281 million in grant funding to support programmes addressing addiction, overdose prevention and
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Turkish authorities have intensified a crackdown on perceived critics ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Ankara, with the detention of journalists, academics and lawyers drawing renewed attention to concerns over press
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This is the second and final part of this interview, the first part of which was published in yesterday’s edition. Seventeen years after the military defeat of the LTTE, Frerks sees Sri
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The resurgence of armed confrontations between the Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) signals the re-emergence of one of Manipur’s most enduring intra-Naga rivalries. Although both
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On June 29, 2026, eight people were injured in a clash between leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and its student’s body Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS),
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When one has witnessed not only a colour revolution in her own country (Macedonia, 2015–2016) but also sensed its arrival during Ukraine’s Euromaidan in 2014, every new outburst of supposedly spontaneous revolt provokes scepticism.
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Millions of people are thronging through the streets of Tehran this week as the state funeral for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei takes place; Khamenei ruled Iran for three decades and
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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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The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Arsenio Dominguez, has urged immediate global cooperation to secure the release of 44 seafarers currently being held captive by pirates and armed robbers in
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo At least 26 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after two consecutive days of violence at Negombo Prison in western Sri Lanka, where renewed
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What happens when a country wins a war but fails to resolve the reasons that produced the war in the first place? Can a military victory over an armed movement create lasting
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