The Myotsuji temple sits in Aisai, a little known city in the Japanese prefecture of Aichi. Located more than 9,000km (5,600 miles) from her home in Sri Lanka’s Kadawatha district, it is the final resting place of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali. Wishma died on 6 March 2021...
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, (15/7 – 22) The governing Dutch coalition led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte has been dissolved as a result of sharp differences in views among cabinet members in dealing with the hot potato of immigration, forcing a new election in the Kingdom of the Netherlands on...
Ships crisscrossing our oceans give off as much planet-warming carbon through their smokestacks in a year as the whole of Germany. The massive shipping industry is responsible for transporting nine-tenths of our goods around the world. But it doesn’t yet have a goal for cutting...
Brussels, Frankfurt (16/6 – 33) The European Union declared late last year that it intended to investigate how Russia acquired so-called “kamikaze drones” from the Islamic Republic of Iran, for battlefield deployment. While the production of these game-changing unmanned aerial vehicles...
Harvard’s practice of granting preference to undergraduate applicants with family ties to the elite college is facing a legal challenge. Advocacy groups have petitioned the government to stop the Ivy League university’s legacy admissions. The policy has long been seen as a...
