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
The Trump administration is preparing to unleash an artificial intelligence-powered tool designed to eliminate up to half of all U.S. federal regulations, according to internal documents and sources cited by The Washington
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial use of polygraph tests to root out suspected leakers at the Pentagon was abruptly halted following direct intervention from the White House, according to a new report
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Bronze sculptures commemorating the historic meeting between Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were recently removed from a public square in Mexico City’s Cuauhtémoc borough. The statues, depicting the iconic revolutionary leaders in
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Taiwan is set to hold a landmark recall election on Saturday, with voters deciding whether to remove up to 24 lawmakers from the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, potentially altering the balance of
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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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The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Friday declared the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte unconstitutional, bringing a sudden halt to one of the country’s most politically charged proceedings in
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The 80th birthday celebration of former President of Sri Lanka, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga at the BMICH in Colombo provided not just a platform for well-wishers to honour
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United Nations human rights experts have welcomed the recent lifting of long-standing international sanctions on Syria by the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, marking a significant turning point after
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is expected to resign following his party’s poor performance in last week’s elections, signaling deepening political instability as nationalist movements gain ground across the country. Ishiba, who
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Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s civil war has escalated into its most violent phase in decades, the scale of the conflict is bewildering. Between 60-200 armed groups are now active, with members in total
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