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ESPNcricinfo staff, June 2026 …. where the title reads ““Padikkal fifty, Sudeera five-for before India A, SL A settle for draw”

    Padikkal batting …

Dilum Sudeera

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 Sanjeewa Jayaweera, whose chosen title is  “Politics, Taxation and the Need for Consensus”

The editorial in last Sunday’s Sunday Island, captioned “Fuel Crisis: Beyond Price Debate,” deserves to be applauded because it called on both the government and the opposition to stop playing politics over fuel prices. The editor concluded by stating, “It is hoped that the government and the opposition will stop fighting over fuel prices and address the serious issues that threaten the country’s energy security and economic stability.”

I believe that most Sri Lankans would agree with that sentiment, except perhaps those engaged in politics whose primary objective appears to be the attainment of power, often regardless of the cost to the country.

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Dr. Chamila S. Talagala

For the lawyers who took their oath last week, and for everyone who still believes this profession is worth saving.

There is a courtroom complex in Colombo that lawyers still call by its old name, Hulftsdorp, long after the British left and the Republic was born. Its corridors have carried the footsteps of giants of the Bar, the quiet anxieties of litigants, and the slow, formal cadence of judgments that shaped a nation. Anyone who has walked those passages for thirty years or more will tell you, often without being asked, that something has changed. The trust once placed in lawyers and the quiet authority that used to precede a senior counsel into a room, none of it is what it was twenty-five years ago, let alone fifty. This is not nostalgia speaking. It is an observation that deserves honest investigation rather than a shrug.

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Posted by Quintus Andradi in Facebook, with the title  “Unforgettable Century”   

“They gave her a name they didn’t know, a funeral they didn’t owe, and a grave they’ve tended for nearly a century. And in doing so, they answered the one question no one could solve: who she was—because she was one of them.”

In September 1927, a young girl was discovered in a shallow grave outside Fredericksburg, Texas—brutally beaten, assaulted, and buried in a grave so small her body had been forced into it. Investigators estimated she was a teenager with striking red hair and blue eyes. But despite a massive search, no one could determine who she was. As news spread, families traveled from hundreds of miles away, hoping—and fearing—that the victim might be their missing daughter. Leads poured in: witnesses reported seeing a red-haired girl traveling with two men, soldiers were questioned, a cabin with blood-stained bedding was found. Yet every promising lead eventually went cold. The girl remained nameless, a ghost haunting the Texas hill country.

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AI Overview

The 76-year-old conservationist was critically wounded on June 4, 2026, when her beachfront home in the village of Mansouri, near Tyre, was struck during intensified military operations in southern Lebanon. [1, 2, 3, 4]

• The Orange House: Khalil famously lived in her grandmother’s seaside home, turning it into an ecological sanctuary and ecotourism

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Chaminda Wariyagoda, presenting an item in FACEBOOK by Withanage Don  Gunaratne

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Desert Wanderer, responding to the  Facebook item ……. https://www.facebook.com/reel/995471963451341

Talks with President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian • President of Russia

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Item in  the DAILY Mirror, 25 June 2026

Buddhist monks from the Gangaramaya Temple clean the banks of Beira Lake during a joint environmental cleanup campaign organised by the Gangaramaya Temple, the Colombo Municipal Council, the Urban Development Authority and the Jinarathana Technical College in Colombo on June 25, 2026. The cleanup of Beira Lake and its surroundings was carried out under the supervision of the Chief Incumbent of the Gangaramaya Temple, Dr. Kirinde Assaji……  Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

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Truth is King

 The Australian’s 25 June editorial, titled ‘Deal and the despair of the Iranians’, offers a delusional critique of the recent MoU signed between the US and Iran. It pushes a rigid ideological agenda by amplifying the deal’s flaws while completely burying the geopolitical context that necessitated it.

By evaluating the ceasefire purely through the lens of human rights and domestic Iranian politics, the editorial frames the 14-point MoU as a “betrayal” simply because it lacks democratic mandates. It weaponizes emotional rhetoric—such as the “despair of Iranians,” “morally wrong,” and “strategically misguided”—to indoctrinate Australian readers rather than inform them. Their goal is to funnel readers into an ideological echo chamber.

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Andrew Fidel Fernando, in ESPNcricinfo, 26 June 2026,  where the title is different and no highlights occur

Dhananjaya de Silva‘s 120 off 168 deliveries formed the centrepiece of Sri Lanka‘s fighting batting efforts on day one of the Test series against West Indies. Sri Lanka lost three wickets in the first hour, Kemar Roach breaking through in the first over of the game, before Alzarri Joseph struck twice in three balls in the 10th over.

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