For years, progressive intellectuals, activists and cultural figures have argued that political imagination has weakened, leaving societies poorly equipped to confront the exhaustion of neoliberalism and ecological collapse. The response has been a call for new forms of utopian thinking and storytelling. Oliver Marchart
Violence against Bangladesh’s Hindu minority has produced killings, attacks on homes and
More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, civilian security
India’s judiciary and Election Commission have survived decades of political conflict, public
La Tasty, a small café on the waterfront road in Al-Khasab, has
The Rajapaksa dynasty personalised political success so completely that it also personalised failure. A return to the old formula is unlikely to address the conditions that changed Sri Lankan politics after 2022.
The arrest of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera raises a difficult question about the reach of judicial power: can a procedural defect in a presidential pardon, granted in 2019 after intervention by Sri Lanka’s highest Buddhist authorities, retrospectively erase seven years
Former minister Champika Ranawaka has sharply criticised Sri Lanka’s handling of Trincomalee port and its growing strategic engagement with India, arguing that Colombo is
Sri Lanka’s garment export earnings fell 7.4% in August 2026 compared with the same month a year earlier, according to export data released by
The latest issue of Merkur, the German journal, takes aim at one of the increasingly popular descriptions of contemporary capitalism: “neofeudalism”. The term has gained currency as political and economic power becomes concentrated among wealthy individuals, financial institutions and technology companies, while international institutions
China’s state television has released rare footage of People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
China’s Ministry of State Security has warned of what it described as
I had a brief experience with a fraternity at Cornell University. I
Five years after the Taliban returned to Kabul, its grip on Afghanistan remains formidable but increasingly contested. Persistent TTP attacks inside Pakistan, worsening Kabul–Islamabad tensions and the emergence of armed anti-Taliban groups have created a dangerous new dynamic: Pakistan, once the Taliban’s crucial regional
For Lebanon’s children, returning to school has become a struggle to recover routines repeatedly shattered by war, displacement and economic crisis. Jana, 12, sits in a classroom on the outskirts of Beirut, moving her legs beneath her desk as she explains that she does
About 416 million people working across the global food system earn too
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a security review of international
Brazil’s presidential election is heading for a second round on October 25,
Five years after the Taliban returned to Kabul, its grip on Afghanistan remains formidable but increasingly contested. Persistent TTP attacks inside Pakistan, worsening Kabul–Islamabad tensions and the emergence of armed anti-Taliban groups
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American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that transformed scientists’ ability to study the brain
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SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son, one of the technology industry’s strongest advocates for artificial intelligence, has warned that increasingly powerful AI systems could become “super dangerous” if placed in the wrong hands,
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The Rajapaksa dynasty personalised political success so completely that it also personalised failure. A return to the old formula is unlikely to address the conditions that changed Sri Lankan politics after 2022.
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The arrest of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera raises a difficult question about the reach of judicial power: can a procedural defect in a presidential pardon, granted in 2019 after intervention by Sri
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Former minister Champika Ranawaka has sharply criticised Sri Lanka’s handling of Trincomalee port and its growing strategic engagement with India, arguing that Colombo is allowing major powers to shape decisions without a
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Sri Lanka’s garment export earnings fell 7.4% in August 2026 compared with the same month a year earlier, according to export data released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Garment export
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Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has accused the government of pursuing policies that threaten renewable energy projects, arguing that rooftop solar power could add 2,500 megawatts to the national grid and
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Turkey’s biggest financial scandal in a decade has reached the political circle of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with senior members of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) and relatives of government officials
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International postgraduate education has become a major source of economic activity for Spain, with foreign students enrolled in master’s and other postgraduate programmes generating an estimated €3.27 billion for the economy, according
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The European Commission is proposing changes to the European Union’s enlargement rules that could allow new members to join while temporarily limiting their voting rights, and even suspend some voting powers if
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For Lebanon’s children, returning to school has become a struggle to recover routines repeatedly shattered by war, displacement and economic crisis. Jana, 12, sits in a classroom on the outskirts of Beirut,
More About 416 million people working across the global food system earn too little to meet their basic needs, according to a new analysis by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food
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The latest issue of Merkur, the German journal, takes aim at one of the increasingly popular descriptions of contemporary capitalism: “neofeudalism”. The term has gained currency as political and economic power becomes
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For years, progressive intellectuals, activists and cultural figures have argued that political imagination has weakened, leaving societies poorly equipped to confront the exhaustion of neoliberalism and ecological collapse. The response has been
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SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son, one of the technology industry’s strongest advocates for artificial intelligence, has warned that increasingly powerful AI systems could become “super dangerous” if placed in the wrong hands, calling for greater international cooperation to manage the technology. Speaking on Sunday
David Robinson, a long-serving safety employee at OpenAI, has left the company
OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated campaign in which operators attempted to
Alphabet unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, describing it as its most
American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that transformed scientists’ ability to study the brain
Around 5.8 million refugee children did not attend school in 2025, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, leaving 44 per cent of the world’s 13.2 million school-age refugee children without access to an educational institution. The agency warned
China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty
Researchers in Europe are developing a 3D bioprinting platform that can create living bone, fat and muscle tissue by combining stem cells with genetically
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