Sri Lanka Heads For Snap Elections Today, Results Likely On Friday
Sri Lanka votes today in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover ...
New leftist president faces first litmus test in Parliament
THE country’s new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday.
Sri Lanka’s new leftist president aims for parliamentary majority
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, who counts Karl Marx and Che Guevara among his heroes, has the backing of the country ...
Sri Lanka's leftist president faces first parliament test
Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary ...
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Sri Lanka Election: 'Progress Over Corruption', Litmus Test For Anura Dissanayake As Voters Head To Polls On November 14
Business leaders have speculated that Sri Lanka could adopt economic models similar to those of China or Vietnam under ...
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Sri Lanka’s third way
As the head of the NPP, a political alliance dominated by his own Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (the People’s Liberation Front, or JVP) party, whose roots are firmly in the Marxist-Leninist tradition, ...
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Southeast and South Asia Step Up Controls on Online Discourse
It remains unclear whether the leftist Janatha Vimukkthi Peremuna (JVP) party, which recently won the presidency and looks poised to do well in upcoming parliamentary elections, will push hard to ...
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'Copycat' logo feud ignites between Jacqui Lambie Network and Tammy Tyrrell over silhouette of Tasmania
She is now seeking to establish her own party under the name ‘Tammy Tyrrell for Tasmania’, with a proposed party logo that features the words Tammy Tyrrell and the shape of Tasmania. But this is a ...
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1 killed, 10 others injured in shooting at a high school-age party in Indiana
At least one person was killed and 10 others were wounded after a shooting broke out at a party of high school-age kids in Indiana on Saturday night, according to police. The Fort Wayne Police ...
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Singer Loomis asks for do-over in the middle of live national anthem performance
Singer Loomis performed “The Star Spangled Banner” at the Free & Equal Elections Foundation presidential debate featuring third-party candidates on Oct. 24. Loomis' performance kicked off the ...
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With Tupperware’s bankruptcy, where’s the party now?
The brand was a pioneer in selling via party, a business model that’s also been used by companies that sell makeup, jewelry and clothing. Now, in an age of online sales, the party model has ...
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Anti-Zionist Jewish group says Israel 'perpetrating a holocaust' in Gaza
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a leading anti-Zionist Jewish group in the US, released a statement on Thursday saying that Israel's actions in Gaza amount to "perpetrating a holocaust".