Former Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena has acknowledged a procedural error in the granting of a presidential pardon to Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero, saying the relevant documents were not submitted to the
More than two months after the “Ditwa” cyclone swept through Sri Lanka, a tragedy in the hill country village of Nawaneliya in Galaha, Deltota has exposed what residents describe as a grave
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More than four years after the MV X-Press Pearl caught fire and sank off Sri Lanka’s western coast, the country is still struggling to turn a historic court ruling into tangible compensation.
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In the Sardinian city of Nuoro, a high stone wall still surrounds a prison once infamous for housing Italy’s most dangerous mobsters and convicted terrorists, exiled far from the mainland. For years,
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The World Economic Forum has launched an independent investigation into its chief executive, Borge Brende, to clarify the nature of his past interactions with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in a move
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A U.S. jury has ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million in damages after finding the company liable for the sexual assault of a teenage passenger by one of its drivers, a verdict
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A romance fraudster who deceived multiple men into funding her luxury lifestyle by claiming she was about to inherit a vast fortune has pleaded guilty to a series of theft and fraud
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In the first fifteen days of 2026, Delhi recorded a statistic that has sent shockwaves through the capital and beyond: more than 500 women and girls went missing in just two weeks.
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The son of Norway’s crown princess has admitted to a series of criminal offences, including transporting large quantities of drugs, while firmly denying accusations that he raped four women, as his high-profile
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by Luxman Aravind Though Sri Lanka parades one of the highest literacy rates in South Asia and flaunts it as evidence of civilisational maturity within global development indices, the country has repeatedly
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The Colombo High Court has sentenced a former police constable to death after finding him guilty of the brutal and premeditated murder of his young girlfriend, also a police constable, in a
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When Shwe Theingi first met Wutt Yee Aung at Myanmar’s Dagon University in 2019, the country was experiencing a rare opening after decades of military rule. The two students bonded over activism
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Newly released emails from the US Department of Justice have reignited scrutiny of past contacts between Elon Musk and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, revealing discussions about potential trips to Epstein’s private
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Panama’s Supreme Court has ruled that a Hong Kong–based company’s long-standing contract to operate key ports at the Panama Canal violated the country’s constitution and did not serve the public interest, dealing
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The Gangodawila Magistrate has ordered the remand of the owner of the Maharagama Rainbow Manpower Foreign Employment Agency until February 13, following allegations of a large-scale foreign employment scam involving promised jobs
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Bangladesh today languishes beneath a medieval pall, a republic dimmed by regression after more than sixteen months of rule under the Yunus interregnum, installed by the American deep state for its geopolitical
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