United Nations human rights experts have called on the Sri Lankan Government to revise its proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Act (PSTA), warning that several provisions must be strengthened to
Two major Tamil political blocs in Sri Lanka have agreed to organise a joint public protest demanding the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), following a meeting between their representatives
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Canadian parliamentarians have called for international accountability over the discovery of mass graves in Chemmani, northern Sri Lanka, urging Canada to support independent oversight of investigations and pursue further legal measures against
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Poland deployed riot police around its constitutional court on Friday after the suspension of its president, Bogdan Swieczkowski, triggered protests and intensified a confrontation between Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-European Union government
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Editorial Donald Trump may have succeeded in making himself the centre of American politics, but Barack Obama has just demonstrated that he remains one of the few Democrats capable of challenging him
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Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has endorsed opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot and his Yashar Party ahead of Israel’s 2026 elections, arguing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is losing political support and
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Editorial Is Bibi going to lose miserably? It is too early to predict, but something unusual is happening in Israel. Voters are turning out in numbers not seen for decades, making this
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Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has ordered Senator Flávio Bolsonaro to surrender his passports within 24 hours and prohibited him from leaving the country, as two investigations examine alleged financial irregularities involving people
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After the piece below had been drafted, news came in of a third development that was perhaps even more consequential than the two described, the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,
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As mentioned in the previous article, in the mid-1960s, six groups, including the JVP, broke away directly from the Chinese wing of the Ceylon Communist Party led by N. Shanmugathasan. Including these
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Mahdi al Mashat, president of Yemen’s Houthi Supreme Political Council, has accused Saudi Arabia of killing more than 562 civilians, mostly women and children, in attacks linked to the conflict, pledging to
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Sri Lanka’s senior Buddhist prelates deserve credit for ending the ten-day protest without overturning a court ruling. Yet the episode reveals how religious authority can be exploited for political ends, how vengeance
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Former Sri Lankan parliamentarian Gevindu Cumaratunga has called on the government to explain the objectives of its proposed new Constitution, questioning what Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya means by an “all-inclusive” constitutional framework
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“We have brought clay and made a figurine and are planning to stick uguressa thorns and other poisonous thorns into it… I will murmur a spell… We have prepared an offering to
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned that Sri Lanka risks losing its place in the emerging international order unless it accelerates technological modernisation, expands its
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Former US president Barack Obama has accused Donald Trump’s administration of economic mismanagement, corruption and incompetence, comparing the lavish renovations of the White House under the Republican president to the excesses of
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