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
Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
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Thousands of supporters of Sri Lanka’s Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) gathered at Polduwa Junction in Battaramulla on Thursday to protest against the government’s proposed 22nd constitutional amendment, with opposition leader Sajith Premadasa
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Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, thanked US President Donald Trump for pursuing diplomatic relations and announced that Venezuela will hold elections, but stopped short of setting a date for the vote. Speaking
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Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has accused the government and President Anura Kumara Dissanayake of undermining democratic institutions, saying the country is being pushed from democracy towards dictatorship. Addressing Parliament on
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney went to France over the weekend, but he didn’t have to go far: meeting French President Emmanuel Macron on the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, just
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World leaders gathering in New York for the 81st United Nations General Assembly arrive at a moment when the credibility of the UN’s collective-security system is under unusual strain. The General Debate
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruling clearing the 22nd Amendment to proceed without a referendum has done more than settle a constitutional question. It has opened a deeper debate over the balance of
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has determined that the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution is not inconsistent with the Constitution and does not require approval through a referendum, allowing the Bill to be
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More than a decade after Rizana Nafeek’s execution in Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka appears to be confronting another death-penalty crisis involving a migrant worker, Sivarasa Anojan. His case exposes the persistent weaknesses
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Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne is expected to communicate the Supreme Court (SC) determination on the 22nd Constitutional Amendment (22A) Bill to Parliament shortly. All signs are that it will come as no
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More than 53 lakh voters in Telangana have been placed on an electoral list of the absent, shifted, dead and duplicate — a bureaucratic classification that has become the centre of an
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Russia’s ruling United Russia party is on course for a sweeping victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, according to preliminary results, in
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Sri Lanka’s legislative process is facing serious shortcomings, while many parliamentarians are voting on bills without fully understanding their contents, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka Marc-André Franche has said. Addressing
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Sri Lanka has never had a constitution genuinely drafted by its people, according to constitutional scholar Professor Rohan Edrisinha, who has argued that the country’s constitutional history reflects a deeper contradiction: institutions
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Paul B. Preciado has spent much of his intellectual life questioning the boundaries that separate male from female, normal from pathological and accepted identities from those placed outside the social norm. Now
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