By Andreas Johansson Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected as Sri Lanka’s new president in elections on November 16 after winning 52 per cent of the votes for the Sri Lanka People’s Front party – 10 per cent more than his closet rival.

Sri Lanka: Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s election victory sparks fear among minorities

By Chris Stafford Of all the criticisms of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, of which there are many, one of the more prominent in recent times has been the party’s ambiguous stance on Brexit.

Labour Party’s Brexit policy explained

By Paul Monod Hong Kong may seem like an unlikely place for a revolution. In this relatively affluent and privileged city, young people might be expected to be more concerned with making money than with protesting in the streets.

Is there hope for a Hong Kong revolution?

By Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal Moody’s, one of the big three credit rating agencies, is not upbeat about the prospects for the world’s debt in 2020 – to put it mildly.

Why a global debt crisis looks very hard to avoid

By Amanda Tattersall While thousands of Hong Kongers have protested “like water” for the past six months – flowing through the city with seemingly spontaneous movements – the past week has seen a shift in strategy.

A dangerous new phase for the Hong Kong protests

By Dimitrios Syrrakos The eurozone has emerged from its debt crisis of 2010-18 intact, but at a very high cost to the periphery. Greece’s exit from its third bailout in August 2018, the swan song of the crisis, is perceived as successful only from a purely accounting perspective.

China’s relationships with Greece and Italy are deepening – EU is reaping exactly what it sowed

By Michael Clarke This past weekend, The New York Times’ China correspondents, Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, published an expose of over 400 internal Chinese government documents relating to Beijing’s mass detentions of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang.

Leaked documents on Uighur detention camps in China – the key revelations

By Carol Anne Goodwin Jones The situation in Hong Kong has become decidedly more serious and more intense in the past week. The sporadic violence associated with small groups of protesters and police has escalated into full-scale battles.

Hong Kong: Police legitimacy draining away amid spiral of rage and retaliation

By Ken Chitwood Just days after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on October 27, the Islamic State named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as the new “caliph.” In 2014, IS conquered vast swaths of Iraq and Syria and declared itself to be the “caliphate.

What is a caliph? The Islamic State tries to boost its legitimacy by hijacking a historic institution

By: Jideofor Adibe Last month marked ten years since Mohammed Yusuf, founder of Boko Haram, died in police detention. His death led to the radicalisation of the sect and a declaration of Jihad against the Nigerian state.

How Boko Haram has evolved over the past ten years

By Henry F (Chip) Carey Numerous anti-government protests have paralyzed cities across the globe for months, from La Paz, Bolivia, to Santiago, Chile, and Monrovia, Liberia, to Beirut.

Urban unrest propels global wave of protests

By Sukru Cildir The relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran, both oil-rich states in the Middle East, has oscillated from co-operation to conflict throughout history.

How Saudi-Iranian oil rivalry has been shaped by American power

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