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In places like kramatorsk. seizing this corner of eastern ukraine, with its close ties to russia, was supposed to be an easier task for the kremlin�*s blundering army. but the blundering goes on. "my shop is hardly a strategic target," says lilia, with contempt. and all this is stiffening the resolve of ukrainian soldiers. we met this tank unit, holding their ground at a spot where russia has been trying to break through. they badly need better equipment, but they have other strengths. we are ...

Freedom for every one of us, says a village elder, his lip trembling. glory to our heroes. a lonely ukrainian were playing thunderous overhead. the front lines are just town a away to the north. and the defiant spirit is growing here, too, as the bombs fall at random. seizing this corner of eastern ukraine, with its close ties to russia, was supposed to be an easier task for the kremlins blundering army. but the kremlins blundering army. but the blundering goes on. my shop is hardly a strategic ...

  It is a strange thing in this country with so many rivers flowing into the sea right round the island, as soon as the rains cease there is a drought and there are thousands affected with no possibility of getting anything out of what they have cultivated, be it rice or vegetables. And while the rains last there are a number of places that get inundated with roads impassable and people displaced from their abodes. If one recalls the history of this blessed isle it was King Parakramabahu the G...

(With Contempt of Court cases making news recently, we publish today an article written by E.C.B. Wijeyesinghe, a famous journalist of yesteryear on the Contempt of Court case against the Editor of the Daily News in the nineteen thirties) One of the occupational hazards of the editor of a newspaper is to suffer for other people’s sins. There is, of course, a sacred precedent for this kind of undeserved torture: but you cannot put up that plea in mitigation of the punishment when you stand fac...