We use the vernacular term “porak” in Sri Lankan politics to describe anyone but a Leftist, Marxist-Leninist politician. How naïve we were. Our collective perception seemed to dictate that they (the JVP
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Little would change for U.S. intelligence should Kamala Harris win the Democratic nomination for president and prevail in the November elections. President Biden, wracked by plunging polls and mounting pressure from Democratic
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In my first analysis of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania I pointed out the possibility of a second shooter. Since my essay was published last Monday,
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When President Joe Biden said in a phone call to MSNBC’s Morning Joe recently, “I’m getting so frustrated with the elites… the elites of the party. I don’t care what the millionaires
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At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, the focus was on Ukraine. In the Washington Declaration, the NATO leaders wrote, “Ukraine’s future is in NATO.” Ukraine formally applied to join NATO in
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“A week is a long time in politics,” said former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1950s. Labour’s recent election victory in the UK, along with the elections in France and
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A wave of student protests in Bangladesh has led to more than two dozen deaths, exposing severe discontent with the government and deep-seated economic issues in the world’s second-largest garment exporter. The
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Editorial Lawyers have become entangled with notorious criminals in the country. This troubling scenario was highlighted by the Public Security Minister in his statements to reporters yesterday during a press conference. Amid
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The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) adopted a resolution on further deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization at its third plenary session held here from Monday
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MILWAUKEE, WI — In the Republican National Convention (RNC), Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday evening. The event marked a significant moment in his campaign, following a harrowing assassination
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by Eduardo Martínez Borbonet There are no identical political processes, much less Revolutions, which are conditioned by history and the context in which they develop. However, in Our America there are no
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The presence of Cuban women in the country’s political life is crucial, and is evidenced in each session of the National Assembly of People’s Power. The recent legislature, formed last year, is
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U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the White House confirmed. “Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. He is vaccinated
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In the opening minutes of a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last Saturday, a 20-year-old gunman named Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to kill Donald J. Trump, former president, current Republican nominee,
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