by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor India has decided to sideline Sri Lanka from a substantive role at this year’s BRICS summit in New Delhi, scheduled for 12–13 September this weekend, according to
U.S. President Donald Trump formally unveiled a new presidential aircraft on Friday, presenting a Boeing 747 donated by the government of Qatar and valued at approximately $400 million as the latest addition
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Another of the five police stations captured by the rebels during the April 1971 uprising was the Warakapola Police Station in the Kegalle District. The rebels who captured the Warakapola Police Station
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The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets
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Recently conducted survey (poll) by a company for some prominent newspapers reveals the rise of extreme right-wing nationalism in Australia. This is explicit when a highest number of voters in the sample
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For decades, governments attempting to address Iran’s growing regional influence and nuclear ambitions have relied on diplomacy, sanctions and negotiations. A detailed analysis by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
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The Group of Seven summit concluded on Wednesday without a unified final declaration from participating leaders, marking a departure from traditional summit outcomes and highlighting divisions within the bloc. Instead, heads of
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by Our Political Affairs Editor We believe no introduction is necessary for Ali Sabry. His name is already tied to one of the most dramatic and painful chapters in Sri Lanka’s modern
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by Our Political Affairs Editor Former Finance, Foreign and Justice Minister Ali Sabry has launched a strong defence of due process in the continuing debate over the Easter Sunday attacks, accusing the
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China and Myanmar have signed 18 cooperation agreements covering trade, infrastructure, economic development and disaster relief as Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing’s state visit to China advances plans for the China–Myanmar Economic
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Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem, MP, recently expressed concern over the alleged way Balachandran Prabhakaran, 12-year-old son of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed, in cold blood, on 19
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