A familiar storm gathers Sri Lanka’s inflation reached 8% in September 2026, above the Central Bank’s 3–7% target band for a third straight month, and another push is coming from abroad. Brent
Japan is once again confronting one of the most sensitive questions in its postwar history: whether to revise the Constitution that has defined the nation’s pacifist identity for nearly eight decades. Newly
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The mutual hostility between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other since the 1978 Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the unique political system known as
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Pakistan is grappling with an alarming surge of violence along ethnic and sectarian lines. On February 6, 2026, a suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the Khadija al-Kubra Imambargah in Islamabad killed
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In this interview, former Bangladeshi ambassador Mohammad Harun Al Rashid delivers a blunt assessment of the political upheaval in his country, describing recent developments as “not merely political regression; it is civilizational
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On 20 May 2017, during a violent protest planned by sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was attacked by a mob that accused him of being a Chavista. After being
More Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi emerged from Sunday’s snap lower house election with the strongest mandate seen in postwar Japan, a political triumph that reshapes the country’s domestic balance of power while sending
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We understand a constitution today as a kind of super-law, a law that can validate or invalidate democratically passed statutory laws. Every side invokes the constitution when it is convenient and seems
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Thailand’s ruling Bhumjaithai Party declared victory on Sunday night in the country’s lower house election, as vote counting neared completion and projections showed a wide gap between the conservative-led government and its
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Japan’s political landscape shifted decisively on Sunday as projections from public broadcaster NHK showed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party surging toward a historic landslide in the Lower House election, consolidating
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The first Marxist coalition government in Sri Lanka was formed by the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). The Finance Minister of this government was LSSP
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Iran will strike U.S. military bases across the Middle East if it comes under attack by American forces, its foreign minister has warned, as tensions escalate amid a growing U.S. military presence
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Bangladesh’s leading prime ministerial contender, Tarique Rahman, has rejected an offer to form a post-election unity government with his main rival, saying his party expects to secure a clear mandate when the
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President Donald Trump has demanded that two of the United States’ most prominent transport hubs be renamed in his honor before he agrees to release $16 billion in frozen federal funding for
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On February 5, 2026, the Government of India (GoI), Government of Nagaland (GoN), and the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) in New Delhi to establish the
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In 2014, the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched the Missing Migrants Project. The project, which ‘hosts the only open-access database of records of deaths during migration on the global
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