D.B.S. Jeyaraj | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Noted Sri Lankan journalist and columnist D.B.S. Jeyaraj, who wrote extensively for over four decades on the island’s ethnic conflict and key political developments, including as The Hindu’s Sri Lanka Correspondent, passed away in Canada on Sunday. He was 71. From the 1980s, Mr. Jeyaraj’s byline was familiar…
Security forces gunned down five terrorists in intelligence-based operations in northwest Pakistan, police said on Sunday (May 17, 2026). The operations were conducted late on Saturday (May 16, 2026) in the Bannu district of restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to police. The Regional Police Officer (RPO) Sajjad Khan said that the operations were launched following…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. File | Photo Credit: AP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (May 17, 2026) that Israel had almost completed a key goal of the war in Gaza — eliminating all those responsible for orchestrating the October 7 attack. His remarks followed the Israeli military’s announcement that Ezzedine Al-Haddad, commander…
A wave of militant attacks on schools in Nigeria over the past week has left more than 80 children missing, local officials and a rights group said Sunday (May 17, 2026), the latest in school abductions in the West African country where the government is battling an array of jihadi and other armed groups. The…
U.S. media reports that U.S. authorities are seeking to indict Raul Castro. File | Photo Credit: AP Cuba has obtained more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels and possibly even Florida, Axios reported Sunday (May 17, 2026), citing…
Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Mexican authorities on Sunday (May 17, 2026) said at least 10 people had been killed in an attack by gunmen in the town of Tehuitzingo in the east-central state of Puebla. The victims were six men, three women, and a child, and all were shot in the early…
A passenger of the cruise ship MV Hondius, which was affected by a hantavirus outbreak, boards a EuroAtlantic Airways aircraft bound for Canada at Tenerife Sud airport, Canary Islands, Spain, on May 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Canada’s national health agency on Sunday (May 17, 2026) confirmed that one of four Canadians who returned…
Trade and energy supplies will top the agenda as Prime Minister Narendra Modi lands here on Monday (May 18, 2026) for the first bilateral visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Norway, one of the world’s major oil and gas exporters. Mr. Modi’s talks with Mr. Store will be an opportunity to take stock of…
File image showing readers looking at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a “wanted” photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Rwandan suspect charged…
Pakistan’s Interior Minister arrived in Tehran on Saturday “to facilitate” Iran-U.S. peace talks Source link