Pathirara Senarath

Egyptian Minister of Industry and Trade Ahmed Samir Saleh said Egypt will open a trade “window into the Middle East and North Africa” after joining BRICS on January 1, 2024.…

Rabat – Abdellatif Hammouchi, Morocco’s Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance (DGSN-DGST), held two working sessions with France’s Director-General of Internal Security Nicolas Lerner, who is currently on…

Copenhagen (13/11 – 37.5) When Ranil Wickremesinghe took over as Sri Lanka’s president in July after a popular uprising ousted his predecessor, the South Asian island nation was engulfed in…

Brussel, Frankfurt (16/11 – 23) A levying of embargoes and export bans, the imposition of sanctions, erection of fearsome “license” (= restriction) protocol: there’s nothing new about this back-and-forth in…

Vladimir Putin has urged Russian women to have eight or more children and make large families “the norm” amid soaring numbers of casualties in his war against Ukraine. Russia’s birth rate has…

Update 2: Death toll now 150 with 500 wounded as of December 26. Update: Death toll now 113 in Christmas Eve terror attack on sleeping Christian villagers, according to county…

Brussels, Frankfurt (10/11 -12) Words like ‘neocolonialism’ and ‘neo-imperialists’ are being tossed around by spokesmen of freshly-installed military regimes in Central and West Africa – but the language of their…

Brussels (08/11 – 50) On March 20, the IMF approved a $3 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to support Sri Lanka amid its economic crisis. The approval is expected to…

Brussels (3/12) Governments may be doing great while the people suffer. Bombing of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, carrying cheap Russian natural gas to industry and consumers in Europe, is exerting…

London (05/11 – 44.44) Benjamin Wey, a Chinese-American financier, founder of Fintech Holdings and a history of legal trouble, is suing Sri Lanka for $250 million. Wey claims that he was…