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by Lakshman Gunasekara
By the time you start reading this column, let’s fervently hope that World War 3 has not broken out somewhere. The western Internet industry a few days ago reported that the biggest number of hits on the Web were various queries about the outbreak of a world war and its immediate, potentially catastrophic fall-out.
The Internet exploded with such war speculation...
World & Asia
Better buy your London house now! Lankans with an eye to Anglophile prestige, may want to invest in that London house sooner rather than later. House property values are on the rise across the board despite the fears of market isolation due to Brexit, according to Global Mansions magazine. The mass market housing shortage in the UK continues, sustaining...
History-making first week for Trump:
Merits of a torture method discussed:
Who would have thought that the merits of a specific method of torture would be a big public discussion in the world’s ‘greatest democracy’ – led by the ‘highest in the land’? None other than America’s new President led the way last week in a television interview in discussing the merits of a...
It’s official! Or, at least, what has been implicit in the election campaign speeches throughout is now implicit in the official, Presidential speech of Donald Trump on taking office in Washington, DC, last Friday. What is ‘implicit’ in this new and growing discourse of America’s withdrawal from the world stage as the pre-eminent super-power.
Analysts across the world...
Retreating US opens way for new regional power rivalries : Asia’s heated military atmosphere in 2017
As we begin 2017, the military seems to have superseded business, for once, in the Asia region, the world’s most populous, by far. Barely had India let off steam about a Chinese Navy attack submarine patrolling the Indian Ocean than world attention was drawn to a visit to The Philippines by two major Russian Navy warships.
As 2016 ended, India proudly announced the fourth...
by Lakshman Gunasekara
It is not just the people of Idlib province and its major urban areas that are bracing for the Syrian government military...
If recent domestic political trends in the rich West appear troublesomely xenophobic, authoritarian and even obscurantist, both...
Cricketing and politico-philanthropic icon Imran Khan is making history by breaking a long-time bipartisan parliamentary rivalry...
The January 1 early morning gun attack on an Istanbul night club should tell two things to Sri Lankans unfamiliar with the...