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
The global order is entering a harder-edged phase of realism, in which power increasingly rests on the ability to compel rather than the authority to persuade. Across regions, calculations of immediate advantage
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A United Nations human rights report has documented what it describes as the widespread and systematic use of conflict-related sexual violence throughout Sudan’s ongoing war, alleging that such abuses have accompanied the
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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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OpenAI has launched a new initiative aimed at improving cybersecurity across the open source software ecosystem by helping maintainers identify and fix vulnerabilities in their projects. The initiative, called “Patch the Planet,”
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced a new strategy to restart oil trade with Cuba through private companies, creating a commercial framework designed to allow fuel exchanges while avoiding exposure of state
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Belgium has granted a one-day visa to a Taliban delegation invited to Brussels for migration discussions with European Union officials, allowing the group to enter the country but restricting travel beyond Belgian
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The concept, rooted in philosophical traditions dating back to ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, is at the center of a recent discussion published by El País, which examines how ordinary
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Forty-two years after Operation Blue Star, the events of June 1984 remain among the most consequential and contested episodes in modern Indian history. What began as a military operation aimed at removing
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The latest confrontation between the United States and Iran has drawn global attention to a critical weakness in international trade: the dependence of the world economy on a small number of maritime
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) delegation that visited Sri Lanka last week conducted confidential interviews with detainees held at the Criminal Investigation Department
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced Saturday that security forces had killed Ivan Idrobo, known by the alias Marlon, one of the country’s most senior FARC dissident commanders and the second-in-command to Nestor
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The wife of detained former State Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay has lodged a complaint seeking protection for herself and her children, alleging that they have been subjected
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When Charlotte Buttercase’s phone rang at 2am, the final-year medical student at the University of Manchester answered because she believed there could be an emergency. The call came from an unidentified number,
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When Matthias Rohde turned towards the woman sitting in the defendant’s dock and said, “We are a couple,” the courtroom in Rostock fell into a moment of disbelief. After two days of
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“More the decline of the Buddhist Order of Sri Lanka, taller the statues.” ~ EW Adikaram (Onwards alone like a unicorn) In November 2025, officials from the Department of Wildlife raided the
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