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with Lakshman Gunasekara
with Lakshman Gunasekara
Suddenly the Arabian Sea, a bare 1,000 km north west of us, is fraught with geopolitical tension of a nuclear kind. In a bid to...
After a tumultuous and sensation-ridden two years of police and security investigations, President Donald Trump is now, free of...
How many checkpoints did schoolchildren go through on their way to school in war-torn Jaffna? Over the two decades of the peak of...
The very same United States of America that imposes harsh sanctions against Russia for its military annexation of the Crimea is...
A middle class White man who could afford to regularly fly between Australia and New Zealand, buy up to two semi-automatic...
Less than a fortnight after the second round of US-North Korea summit talks, relations between the two countries seems set to go...
What does one think when two impoverished nuclear powers send their fighter-bombers at each other but aim to damage as little as...
The world will surely remember Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, not so much for his ‘art of the deal’ but...
Why is America cozying up to nuclear-armed, totalitarian North Korea but savaging non-nuclear-armed and democratic Iran with...
Would you expect the world’s biggest and most successful military power, which continues to assert its global dominance, to be in...
The announcement by the White House seems to have been done without any prior consultation with relevant stakeholders such...
Will war-torn, starving, Yemen wriggle out of its current military assault by Saudi Arabia thanks to the Saudi monarchy’s attempt...
The world’s 20 most powerful nations met in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday and Saturday but little concrete is expected of the...
America’s principal global spy agency, the CIA, has reportedly ‘concluded’ that young Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman,...
Is the Donald Trump administration secretly plotting to hand over long-time Turkish cleric exile Fethullah Gulen to Turkey as a...
The opposition Democratic Party’s upset take-over of the House of Representatives in last Tuesday’s mid-term general elections in...
As the United States of America reels from a spate of attempted bomb attacks against over a dozen top Opposition politicians and...
Blood-spattered walls, bone-saw-wielding doctors, role of close aides of the Saudi Crown Prince notwithstanding, Washington and...
As often in human affairs, the errant crony is the undoing of the patron. The horrifying murder of a high profile, dissident...
Maldivians will vote today to ostensibly ‘freely’ choose their next President but with the entire political opposition and much...
Russia’s on-going war games in eastern Siberia is the largest military exercise the world has seen and involves China as well,...
Is the current United States presidency secretly run by a shadowy second tier of officials who circumvent their erratic and...
Arab and Muslim majority capitals were buzzing last week over an audio message circulated on the internet supposedly from ISIL...
Does a long-time woman showbiz protégé of American President Donald Trump truly have secret recordings of conversations inside...
Cricket fans will eagerly watch how legendary bowler Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Premier-elect, captains his governmental team in the...
After a tumultuous and sensation-ridden two years of police and...
How many checkpoints did schoolchildren go through on their way to...
The very same United States of America that imposes harsh sanctions...
A middle class White man who could afford to regularly fly between...
Less than a fortnight after the second round of US-North Korea summit...
What does one think when two impoverished nuclear powers send their...
The world will surely remember Donald Trump, President of the United...
Why is America cozying up to nuclear-armed, totalitarian North Korea...
Would you expect the world’s biggest and most successful military...
The announcement by the White House seems to have been done...
Will war-torn, starving, Yemen wriggle out of its current military...
The world’s 20 most powerful nations met in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
America’s principal global spy agency, the CIA, has reportedly ‘...
Is the Donald Trump administration secretly plotting to hand over...
The opposition Democratic Party’s upset take-over of the House of...
As the United States of America reels from a spate of attempted bomb...
Blood-spattered walls, bone-saw-wielding doctors, role of close aides...
As often in human affairs, the errant crony is the undoing of the...
Maldivians will vote today to ostensibly ‘freely’ choose their next...
Russia’s on-going war games in eastern Siberia is the largest...
Is the current United States presidency secretly run by a shadowy...
Arab and Muslim majority capitals were buzzing last week over an...
Does a long-time woman showbiz protégé of American President Donald...
Cricket fans will eagerly watch how legendary bowler Imran Khan,...
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