South Asia

By Ben Cowles January 8, 2019 AROUND 150 million people began a two-day general strike in India today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-Labour and...

By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya The US quit the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (19th June) with rhetoric intended to assert the moral high-ground, slamming the...

By Tamara Kunanayakam former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva April 3, 2018 The question repeatedly asked of me, a major preoccupation of...

The F-35 is such an incredibly integrated platform that changing its sensors would be like asking Apple to manufacture an iPhoneX just for you...

Par Jean-Pierre Page Les évènements tragiques intervenus ces derniers jours à Ampara dans le sud-est du pays et surtout à Kandy, l’ancienne capitale historique de...

Window to the West By Munir Akram * January 21, 2018 WHEN in 1960 Mao Zedong sent off General Gengbiao, his second ambassador to Pakistan, he reportedly...

Trump's first 2018 tweet: Pakistan has 'given us nothing but lies & deceit' By Daniella Diaz, CNN Washington (CNN)In his first tweet of the new year...

by Zeenat Saberin India's two-sentence response to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital last week elicited mixed reactions after New Delhi for decades...

Farmers storm India’s national capital, demanding freedom from debt and better price for their produce Several thousand small-holder farmers from across India held a massive...

Pétition adressée au Staatssecretaris Justitie en Veiligheid : M. Mark Harbers https://www.change.org/p/staatssecretaris-justitie-en-veiligheid-donnez-l-asile-%C3%A0-s-h-a-18-ans-nourri-de-force-dans-une-prison-n%C3%A9erlandaise Pour la libération et l'obtention du droit d'asile de S.H.A. (18 ans), actuellement nourri de...