Ursula Kemp was a strong-willed woman. That may have been one reason she eventually ended up on the gallows. A midwife and healer in the small English village of St Osyth, Kemp
Tehran has arrested tens of thousands of people in an unprecedented crackdown on alleged Israeli espionage networks, according to a report from The Times UK. The campaign follows what officials have described
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Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has hit back at opposition accusations that the country’s beaches are empty because citizens can no longer afford summer holidays, calling the claims “shameful” and “unpatriotic,” The
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A frozen front may be the best case scenario for both sides Russia and Ukraine and will also please the US President Donald Trump, but there are many caveats that will have
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Remarks by the author at a panel discussion on the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, held in aid of the Peter Weerasekara Children’s Home, Yakkala. The event took place at the International Women’s Club
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China has rolled out its first-ever nationwide childcare subsidy in a bid to address its worsening demographic decline, according to a report by the South China Morning Post. The programme will provide
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Australia will formally recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations summit in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Monday, marking a break with close ally the United States as tensions escalate
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“Tyranny,” Hannah Arendt told Roger Errera in the final sentences of her last interview, “has been discovered very early, and identified very early as an enemy.” The Greeks coined tyrannos for rulers who seized
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by Luxman Aravind That was rather funny how this government works and how they are being bullied, yet they talk high with super ego. Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, long hailed an “intellect,”
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Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra’s remark on Wednesday that the US tariff hike is unlikely to have any “major impact” on India’s economy “subject to retaliatory tariffs coming into the
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor In a matter of days, a summit of seismic import will convene — one poised to reverberate through the brittle scaffolding of an exhausted geopolitical order. Presidents
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