To be sure, not all has gone well for Northern Ireland since the coming into being of the British province’s Good Friday Agreement on April 10th 1998. For instance, it has been without a ruling executive since January 2017, when the province’s power-sharing government’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness resigned in protest over what has […]

By Ayushi Agarwal Following a decision by the Taliban regime to ban women from working at non-governmental organisations, four major international aid groups suspended their operations in Afghanistan on Sunday. Neil Turner, country director, Norwegian Refugee Council for Afghanistan, while calling the ban ‘temporary’, said it “can, unfortunately, have a high impact”. He als...

By Bandu de Silva It looks as if all Pundits have spoken their mind on the recent performance of the Foreign Service and there is nothing more left to be said. But as an old Foreign Service hand, now watching...

The proxy party of Myanmar’s military junta has swept the polls winning 187 seats of the 219 seats counted by Thursday, the Times of India reported. Observers believe that more than 80 per cent of seats in the new parliament will be under the control of the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Party. There was ...

Tamils of a different stripe by Gordon Weiss The Tigers are history and Sri Lanka’s ethnic minority remains under the government’s thumb. Think about it – who wants to portray the boat people as a security threat?...

by Ann Powers There are so many ways to say “I love you,” and if you’re singing, it can be hard to say anything else. Pop stars are our love machines, expressing desires people are otherwise too uptight or disconnected...