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
by Luxman Aravind Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya’s two recent official visits became something of a media event: a cascade of carefully choreographed images, from the cockpit-window shots to slow-motion footage of diplomatic
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Italy’s centre-left opposition is confronting internal uncertainty as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni continues to dominate the political landscape, The Times reports. Opposition leader Elly Schlein, who took over the Democratic Party in
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On September 24, 2025, Leh District in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh witnessed its deadliest day of unrest in decades, as protests demanding Statehood and constitutional safeguards for Ladakh escalated into
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Former President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after Brazil’s Supreme Court found him guilty of orchestrating a coup to cling to power following his
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by Mendaka Samarasinghe “Do you really believe Anura is running this show alone?” a senior business editor asked me recently over coffee in Cinnamon Gardens. “He’s got help—old help.” I didn’t have
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A century after Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was published, an unsettling reflection published by The Independent UK challenges long-held assumptions about Britain’s moral immunity to fascism and raises troubling parallels with today’s
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As we approach a major anniversary – 80 years since the defeat of fascism – a strange silence hangs over my country, Macedonia, and the broader region we now call the territory
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Marine Le Pen, the hard-right leader of France’s National Rally and a frontrunner for the 2027 presidential elections, has been disqualified from running for office for five years after being found guilty
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Greenland’s recent election has resulted in a surprising victory for Demokraatit, a party that advocates a gradual approach to independence from Denmark. The election, as reported by the Financial Times, was overshadowed
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The Committee stage of Budget 2025 began in the House on Thursday with cartloads of mud – if mud it really was – thrown at past leaders of this country by the
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