Reality Check

By Mujib Mashal DOHA — They are here to end their fathers’ war. On both sides of the negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban are nearly a dozen children of men who played key roles in the Soviet conflict in the…
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BEIJING - The tragic case of a rural livestreamer who died after being set alight by her ex-husband has triggered outrage over domestic violence on Chinese social media. The 30-year-old woman, named Lamu, died on Wednesday (Sept 30)…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO - The cancellation of the Japanese-funded Light Railway Transport (LRT) project in Colombo by the Sri Lankan government may have been based on rational grounds, weighing its “limited use” against the “huge…
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By Melani Manel Perera COLOMBO – Hundreds of Sri Lankan migrants, Catholic and non-Catholic, have been stranded in various countries. Among them, those in Middle Eastern countries are facing huge problems due to the lack of food, shelter…
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By Dipti Kharude MUMBAI – Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead by apparent suicide at his Mumbai residence on June 14. What was a tragic end to a promising young star’s career has turned into a media frenzy centred on the…
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By Zia Ur Rehman and Salman Masood KARACHI/ISLAMABAD— Eight years after Pakistan’s worst industrial fire killed 264 people and injured 60 others at a garment factory in the country’s largest city, a court has sentenced two men to hang…
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By Maria Abi-Habib COLOMBO - A Sri Lankan politician sentenced to death on murder charges was sworn in as a member of the country’s Parliament on Tuesday (8), escorted out of prison to take his oath amid jeers from opposition…
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By Jin Wu and Elaine Yu HONG KONG - A national security law passed June 30 instantly altered the lives and liberties of Hong Kong’s residents, criminalizing words and images that just hours earlier had been legally protected free speech.…
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By Karan Deep Singh SIRSIWALA — Randhir Singh was already deeply in debt when the coronavirus pandemic struck. Looking out at his paltry cotton field by the side of a railway track, he walked in circles, hopeless. In early May, he killed…
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By Neil Vigdor, Christina Morales, and Bryan Pietsch NEW YORK - It should have been an idyllic Labour Day weekend, the serenity of the High Sierra region of California providing a welcome respite from protests and a pandemic.…
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