The Sri Lankan army finished its brutal conquest of the areas of the island previously controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)—the Tamil Tigers—this week. Most of the Tigers’ leaders are now dead.
India’s ruling Congress party this week returned to power following the country’s month-long election process which concluded at the weekend.
Egyptian authorities have cancelled the Cairo Conference, organisers have confirmed.
Pakistan’s military offensive on rebels in the Swat Valley marks a dangerous turn for a region reeling from the US occupation of Afghanistan.
India’s parliamentary elections ended this week with the counting of the hundreds of millions of votes set to begin this Saturday.
"Surrender or die" – that was the ultimatum from the Sri Lankan government after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) declared a unilateral ceasefire earlier this week.
Nathan Kumar arrived in Britain in 1984 as a refugee from anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka. He is now chair of the British Tamils Forum.
Why is this election causing so much excitement in South Africa?
The US has confronted Somalia, once again, with its guns blazing. This time special forces killed a group of Somali pirates who were holding captive a US ship’s captain.
The faultlines in Iraq are deepening as the country marks six years of occupation.
Smoke from burnt out buses and fire bombs filled the streets of Bangkok on Monday of this week as the Thai army launched a crackdown on the Red Shirt protesters who are challenging the government.
Thaksin Shinawatra Mobile phone and media tycoon who founded the Thai Rak Thai party after the economic crisis of 1997.
