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
Sri Lanka’s recent landslide tragedy, described by officials as a “model disaster,” has once again exposed a stark truth: the country’s development has advanced without the guidance of its own long-established planning
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Twelve months into Donald Trump’s second term, the United States president has already upended global diplomacy, strained domestic institutions and unsettled allies in ways few expected even after his turbulent first presidency.
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Sri Lanka’s long-promised education reforms have stalled amid repeated delays, controversial procurement decisions, and a striking mismatch between massive spending and real-world progress. An audit report has exposed how more than five
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Sri Lanka has been thrown into a heated political and religious debate after President Anura Kumara Dissanayake claimed that visits to Buddhist religious shrines beyond the sacred Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi were
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by Our foreign Affairs Editor Dr. Alireza Delkhosh is the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Sri Lanka, with concurrent accreditation to the Maldives. He has served in Iran’s Ministry
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Once again, Pakistan finds itself at a defining point in its national trajectory, wherein the challenges of internal security and the challenges of diplomacy in the global arena intersect with the challenges
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Sri Lanka’s Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is witnessing an unprecedented political debate over the possible parliamentary entry of General Secretary Tilvin Silva, a move that would break a tradition dating back to
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Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as
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Summary: The relationship between Cuba and Venezuela transcends traditional diplomacy; it is a phenomenon of direct confrontation against imperialism and a model of cooperation between peoples that has transformed the geopolitics of the
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is reportedly considering calling a snap parliamentary election in the first half of February, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Friday, citing government sources. The early election would
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