Ousted former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared that she will return to Bangladesh before the end of the year, dismissing a death sentence handed down against her in absentia and
Europe is confronting several crises at once, each distinct in origin but increasingly interconnected in its consequences. Devastating wildfires and extreme heat have strained emergency-response systems across the continent, a sudden migrant
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Sri Lanka Parliament has never been short of external help. The House began receiving substantial assistance by way of various projects, mostly sponsored by the USAID, after the 2015 change of government.
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While centre driven and managed high level economic changes, both structural and financial, are necessary, an assumption that the benefits of such changes will flow to the periphery through a trickledown theory
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Allegations portraying former intelligence director Major General Suresh Sallay as a conspirator or even a mastermind behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks are facing a
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) has rejected reports that it could enter into a political accommodation with the government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, with senior
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Editorial There is something deeply unsettling about a country fighting corruption while simultaneously contemplating a legal mechanism that could allow a participant in corruption to escape prosecution by telling the authorities what
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If J.R. Jayewardene had not held a referendum, the 1988 rebellion would not have happened, a former JVP rebel told the media. He asked: “What if J.R. had held a general election
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Can a political system be undermined by its own success? That is the argument advanced by proponents of post-liberalism, a broad and internally divided school of thought that has gained increasing attention
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The United States plans to provide $1 billion in security assistance to Colombia’s new government, signalling a major strengthening of ties with President Abelardo De La Espriella as he begins a presidency
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Taiwan’s move to dissolve the pro-Beijing Chinese Unification Promotion Party (CUPP) has triggered a political and constitutional controversy over whether security concerns are being used to suppress dissent. The island’s interior ministry
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