The Democrats may have taken control of the House and the Senate, they may have humiliated Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but the real fight is only beginning. It is not simply a battle to hold the corrupt Trump regime to account, something
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As Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent
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Sri Lanka
Successive pre-Aragalaya governments appointed Presidential Commissions of Inquiry (PCoI) as well as various other committees for specific purposes to dissipate pressure from contentious issues. This despicable strategy was also used to divert
Sri Lanka faces a serious risk of losing the European Union’s GSP+ trade concessions if the government proceeds with two proposed laws on preventing organised crime and protecting the state from terrorism, former foreign affairs minister Professor G.L. Peiris has
A complaint has been lodged with Sri Lanka’s Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, calling for a formal investigation into the allocation
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DEFENCE AND DIPLOMACY
The internet has fundamentally altered who can participate in democratic public discourse, how political information circulates and who has the power to shape public opinion. Yet the legal principles governing democratic communication in Germany were developed for an era dominated by mass media, political
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival following Israel’s latest parliamentary election has left the
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small, and the world is one. ~ Wendell Willkie The Current Perspective As the
WORLD
The absence of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum from the 30th Ibero-American Summit in Madrid has dealt a setback to Spain’s diplomatic efforts to restore the forum’s political significance, leaving Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez among the
A massive leak of internal communications from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has accused former presidential press secretary Yulia Mendel
Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori has received overwhelmingly negative public evaluations during the
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A Chinese court has begun proceedings in a US$53.5 billion defamation case brought by authorities and research institutions against the US state of Missouri over allegations concerning its handling of the Covid-19
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Sri Lanka faces a serious risk of losing the European Union’s GSP+ trade concessions if the government proceeds with two proposed laws on preventing organised crime and protecting the state from terrorism,
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HEALTHCARE AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES
At least 107,356 species are involved in international wildlife trade, more than twice the number previously estimated, according to a study published in Science Advances. The research, which brings together records from
A protein associated with the formation and maintenance of long-term memories has been shown to reverse age-related memory decline in fruit flies, offering a new explanation for why the brain gradually loses its ability to retain information. The findings, from
Plastic waste has reached some of the planet’s most remote environments, from the frozen waters of Antarctica to tropical coastlines and densely populated communities
The release of You Can See Everything, a film documenting the final weeks before Elizabeth Holmes went to prison in 2023, has returned the
BOOKS & REVIEWS
Money, technological success and the promise of personal freedom have failed to deliver happiness to the billionaire family at the centre of Philipp Oehmke’s new novel, Papenburg. In a review published by
Pooneryn Terror Attack offers a compelling account of a pivotal battle in Sri Lanka’s civil war, exposing both the LTTE’s strategic planning and the vulnerabilities of the defending forces. Yet its commemorative
D.L. Hughley’s memoir challenges the comforting idea that success liberates us from our beginnings. Through fractured family relationships, racial disadvantage, fame, infidelity and the demands of fatherhood, he confronts the unsettling possibility
Greg Steinmetz’s The President and the Oligarch revisits the struggle between Andrew Mellon and the political forces challenging his economic vision, revealing how the language of prosperity and fiscal responsibility can conceal
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