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    Yesterday’s Cronies Turn Against Rajpaksas – Top Sri Lankan Businesses Stand By Protestors, Call for Solutions, Stability

    How times change! Sri Lanka’s big business houses, that hitherto took a moral high apolitical ground, are now speaking for change. Even those alleged...
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    Whilst it is known that bottom trawling harms the seabed, that it does not target the species it catches and is a major consumer of...
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    An Angel’s Kiss in Spring: Imran Khan, wife paid 38 million to retain foreign gifts worth crores

    A new set of documents obtained by OWSA reveal that former Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan, and his spouse, Bushra Bibi, have retained gifts...
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    Bangladesh

    MIT Empowering People To Adapt On The Frontlines Of Climate Change

    A new platform will unite climate models, impact predictions, random control trial evaluations, and humanitarian services to bring cutting-edge tools to Bangladeshi communities. Kylie Foy ...
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    UN Recognizes Broadcaster Attenborough With Lifetime Achievement Award

    Attenborough, 95, is arguably the world’s best-known natural history broadcaster. During a career that began with the dawn of television, he has penned and...
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    Accountability

    In Nepal’s Madhes Province, Voters Turning Away From Madhes-Based Parties

    Locals appear disappointed with the performance of the Madhes-based parties and seem to be turning back towards traditional parties like the Nepali Congress and...
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    Civil society

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres Requests Meetings with Putin, Zelenskyy

    The immediate impact of the war is the gravest in Ukraine. But it could have global ramifications, putting 1.7 billion people worldwide at risk...
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    Accountability

    Sri Lanka Police Face Questions After Tuesday’s Firing on Protestors

    An on-spot magisterial enquiry into Tuesday’s firing on protestors has been accompanied with voices of condemnation from the US Embassy in Sri Lanka, the...
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