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Captain Chamari Athapaththu raises her arms in celebration during the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup match between Sri Lanka Women and England Women at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Saturday, 11 October 2025.
The success of Chamari Athapaththu and Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team is showing a new generation of girls where their dreams can take them, and opening doors to women in media and other adjacent fi ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe surrounded by police and lawyers coming out of the courtroom after being arrested for misusing state funds.
Former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested for misuse of public funds, but opposition leaders have opted to grandstand rather than press for reform
A crowded bazaar in Peshawar in 2024.
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Naveen Khan
The Tablighi Jamaat’s orthodox Islamic preaching has gained mass popularity in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwah, where many Pashtuns complain it is transforming their culture and creating the potential ...
A group of activists in Bangladesh participate in a protest holding photographs of missing persons. They are carrying signs with demands for justice and accountability, one of which reads in English, 'Where are they? Bring them back — alive or accountable! Maayer Daak.' Another sign in Bengali asks why the killers are still free. The protest appears to be organised by families of victims who have killed or disappeared, likely in cases of enforced disappearances.
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Cyrus Naji
The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, constrained by its own limitations and a volatile political climate, risks continuing the abuses of the Sheikh Hasina regime in its efforts at transitional j ...
Water flows through an Indian dam on the Jhelum in the wake of the Pahalgam attack. Geography has provided Pakistan with water security it has failed to recognise, instead indulging in paranoid fantasies of India cutting off its river waters.
Pakistan’s paranoia over India suspending the Indus Waters Treaty after the Pahalgam attacks is unfounded, lacking an understanding of geography, hydrology or its water security
A parade in Guwahati in support of Operation Sindoor, India’s strikes against Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack. Indian public discourse has narrowed to where it can envisage an end to terrorism only via the elimination of every last terrorist, even as the meaning of that term is indiscriminately expanded.
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Rahul Rao
Operation Sindoor, India’s strikes on Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack, set off unprecedented warmongering, with the media, the Hindu Right and even the opposition baying for an India–Pakistan war
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