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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation as Prime Minister of Canada after a decade in office. Trudeau, 53, revealed that he will step down as leader of
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The reassertion of democratic polity in Sri Lanka during the year 2024 is a singular achievement of the people of the country, more than its political class. They had shown that the
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Editorial At the G20 summit in Bali in 2022, an illuminating tableau of contemporary geopolitics unfolded. Cameras captured an indelicate moment between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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The “deep state”, never part of the Founding Fathers’ design, has turned US democracy into fiction, former US assistant treasury secretary and renowned economist Dr Paul Craig Roberts says. What does he
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Sri Lanka’s infrastructure development, funded through foreign aid, has been marred by significant delays, financial mismanagement, and the abandonment of projects, according to a damning National Audit Report issued in the last
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A recent poll conducted by Odoxa-Backbone Consulting and commissioned by Le Figaro paints a stark picture of the waning public support for French President Emmanuel Macron. The poll, which surveyed 1,005 French
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The US state department disclosed on Thursday in an accounting of gifts received from foreign leaders during 2023 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s was the “priciest” gift that President Biden received, rather,
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In 2023, foreign leaders showered President Joe Biden and his family with an array of lavish gifts, according to the State Department’s annual report. The gifts, valued in the tens of thousands
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The renovation of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence has sparked a significant controversy after a recent audit revealed that the cost of the project
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The Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka has issued a new circular, Circular No. PS/SB/Circular/1/2025, detailing revised guidelines for government ministries and institutions regarding their engagements with foreign states, international organizations,
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The government has announced new restrictions on marketing food and beverages for children under the Food (Labelling & Advertising) Regulations 2022. A long-felt need has been fulfilled, but much more remains to
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The late Jimmy Carter was an exemplary man. His honesty, modesty and good works set the mark for what American presidents should be like. He was the quintessential Christian gentlemen and a fine naval
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The fifth anniversary of the martyrdom of Iran and Iraq’s greatest anti-terrorist heroes has turned into guiding lights. By the dying evil American empire, as this writing goes on, tens of thousands
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The collapse of the Assad government in Syria was arguably the most consequential event of 2024 for the Middle East. Sputnik asked veteran regional politics and security affairs expert Ali Rizk for
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India has finally undertaken the monumental task of removing toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the worst industrial accident in history. The catastrophe occurred when methyl isocyanate gas
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