Young people around the world are increasingly taking their governments to court for failing to reduce climate pollution, and on rare occasions, they are winning
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Rituals to appease the rain gods were initiated by the Yakkha, Rakusa and Naga, who were the ancient tribes of Lanka. It is they who have now evolved into the hybrid, modern races of the island and carried forward their ancient cultural…
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Sri Lanka today exists in a no man’s land between debt restructure and default. In late June, the government released its proposed domestic debt restructure deal, which in turn also signals the terms it will seek from its external creditors
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When a fisherman showed up for work on a recent morning at a popular beach in Dakar, the capital of the West African nation of Senegal, he found a horrifying scene: Dead bodies splayed across the sand, and a painted wooden boat bobbing…
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Half a century ago, it was higher education, saving universities from Tamil encroachment. Today it is Buddhist heritage, saving archaeological sites in the North and the East from Tamil encroachment. Tomorrow another bone of contention…
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Dozens of migrants have been stranded for months on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean after being rescued from their struggling fishing boat. They are desperate to leave for a safe place, describing conditions as hellish, but the…
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People burned out of their homes by the hundreds. Villages, even refugee camps, raked with gunfire. Men, women and children beaten and set ablaze by angry mobs
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An investigation into a massacre in a destroyed Palestinian village carried out by Israeli forces in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation has identified three possible mass graves beneath a present-day beach resort
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A detainee held in the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay who was used as a human guinea pig in the Central Investigations Agency’s (CIA) post-9/11 torture program has produced the most comprehensive and detailed account yet seen of the…
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