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
by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka’s parliamentary opposition had initially agreed unanimously to proceed with forming a select committee to investigate USAID’s activities in the country. However, following intervention by outgoing
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has intensified its efforts to oust the Attorney-General, Gali Baharav-Miara, further escalating tensions between the government and Israel’s legal authorities. On Sunday, Netanyahu’s cabinet unanimously backed a motion of
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“They were careless people… They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Colombo-based think tank Verite Research has come under fire for allegedly distorting facts and engaging in politically motivated deception. The organisation is accused of falsely labelling former
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. ~ Jules Verne The Plight of the World There is no doubt…the world is in chaos.
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Deshabandu Tennekoon, the suspended Inspector General of Police, surrendered to the Matara Magistrate last Wednesday after leading the force he once headed on a merry chase for some 20 days, resulting in
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Times UK reports that Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a leading opposition figure in Turkey, has called on judges and prosecutors to take a stand against what he deems the
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Times UK reports that the UK government, under Labour’s direction, is exploring the possibility of sending failed asylum seekers to “return hubs” in the western Balkans and other third-party countries. The plan
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by A special Correspondent in Colombo As Sri Lanka approaches the sixth anniversary of the devastating Easter Sunday bombings, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has once again brought the issue of justice to the
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Former Tamil militant leaders Karuna Amman (Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan) and Pillayan (Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan) have set aside their past differences and reached an agreement to contest together in the
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