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India, Afghanistan, South Asia: World of difference between Trump and Biden
The Biden Presidency Worries India
8 NOVEMBER, 2020
From the Indian perspective, the prospect of a Joe Biden presidency becomes a moment of ‘memory mixing with...
Some world leaders have big stake in US election
By JOSEF FEDERMAN
October 22, 2020
JERUSALEM (AP) — While the world will be closely watching the U.S. election, some countries will be watching more closely...
Pompeo Concludes China Bashing Tour of Asia in Vietnam
Pompeo also visited India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Indonesia
Posted on October 30, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took the Trump administration’s anti-China...
After their attacks on climate science, industrial lobbyists target the scientific...
by Olivier Petitjean
6 February 2018
A nebulous coalition of industry-sponsored players, deregulation lobbyists and the far right has formed to deny or downplay the health...
As Chair of MCC & US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo...
Mike Pompeo is arriving amidst a sudden & unexpected covid surge in Sri Lanka and coming from two of the worst covid-hit countries. He...
Dual Citizenship and Amendments to the Constitution – An Open Letter...
Dear Parliamentarians,
We urge you to refrain from voting for any Amendment to the Constitution that would permit foreign citizens to enter Sri Lanka’s Parliament...
Report: Facebook “Complicit” in Role as “World’s Engine for Anti-Muslim Violence”
A new study conducted across nine countries revealed that Facebook played a leading role in facilitating anti-Muslim violence by providing a platform for Islamophobic...
Can Sri Lanka be ‘neutral’ with an ‘India first’ policy?
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
In several interviews after his recent appointment as Secretary to the Foreign Ministry, Adm. (Retd.) Jayanath Colombage has sought to explain the...
US seeks formal alliance similar to Nato with India, Japan and...
Washington’s goal is to get countries in the Indo-Pacific region to work together as a bulwark against ‘a potential challenge from China’, says the...
Black Lives Matter, Gandhi, Soekarno, Africa and Hungary
By Darwis Khudori *
Monday, July 20, 2020, I received an Internet link from one of my Algerian students: « La stèle dédiée au Président Soekarno...