By Paul Martin, Chornomorsk Port. Right opposite the port that could become the first gateway for wheat to leave Ukraine stands a grey lamp-post.. The area around it is now called Freedom Square, but until the Soviet Union ended it was known as Lenin Square. The name-change is part of a pattern across the Ukraine, of becoming more and more distant […]
Exclusive. David Linsey, whose younger brother and sister were killed in a suicide bombing in a hotel in Sri Lanka three years ago, has supported calls for an urgent investigation into who lay behind the terrorist attacks. He believes the collapse of the Rajapaksa family’s decades-long grip on power may make a proper investigation easier. “I […]
Now that the Sri Lankan president Gota Rajapaksa has fled his country and resigned, human rights organisations are dusting off their files on the thousands of ‘disappeared people’, many of them simply abducted and thrust into white vans. Those who disappeared ranged from anti-government activists to supporters of a rebel movement, or were human rights […]
The Cardinal of Colombo says Jesus Christ has risen again — in the church suicide-bombed by an Islamic extremist during an Easter service in 2019. This time though, the blood on the statue in Negombo does not belong to any of the 120 murdered victims of the atrocity. “The blood that spattered onto the statue […]
FIFA’s former President Sepp Blatter has been vindicated and now “feels relieved and free“, his daughter and chief adviser Corinne Blatter-Andenmatten, who is also her father’s chief adviser, told Correspondent.World. He had chosen to resign in 2016 to save world football from financial ruin, she added. Blatter and Michel Platini, the former boss of European football and megastar player, […]