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
The Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes for insubordination, extending the Trump administration’s confrontation with dissent to a military newspaper with a long history of editorial independence and significant
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On the 20th of August, a woman named Manori Sallay wrote to the President of Sri Lanka for the second time to ask him not to let her husband die in his
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A court in Hong Kong has convicted two organisers of annual vigils commemorating the bloody suppression of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing, further narrowing the space for public remembrance of an
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A referendum on 27 September will force Swiss voters to decide whether the country’s historic neutrality should prevent it from imposing economic sanctions on countries at war, a proposal backed by the
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Pakistan is in a state of poly-crises and is hardly managing them, or rather, crushing and diverting attention by playing survival geopolitics with slim substance. On the economic and security fronts, Pakistan
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The telephone call from the US Vice-President JD Vance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 8 came as a surprise. Neither the American nor the Indian side has thrown light into
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The truth is that I had promised myself I would avoid the temptation to analyze the statements and behavior of Argentina’s President Milei. The reason: to keep myself as far away as
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A striking contradiction is emerging at the heart of the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle America’s federal greenhouse gas reporting system: major oil and gas companies are seeking weaker requirements for measuring
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Every August 15, India presents a familiar image to the world: the flag over the Red Fort, military ceremony, patriotic speeches and the celebration of the world’s largest democracy. Yet beyond the
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The Concern I recently received a message from a concerned traveller who regularly uses Sri Lankan Airlines’ services. The communication included a recording in which a journalist conveyed an alarming proposition: that
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