SEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELNfnbU-Kc0 …
Ibrahim Traoré (French pronunciation: [ibʁaim tʁaɔʁe]; born 14 March 1988) is a Burkinabé military officer and politician who has served as the interim President of Burkina Faso since 2022. Traoré took control of Burkina Faso in September 2022, ousting interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in a coup d’état.
NOTE THE WIKIPEDIA ACCOUNT
Ibrahim Traoré (French pronunciation: [ibʁaim tʁaɔʁe]; born 14 March 1988) is a Burkinabé military officer and politician who has served as the interim President of Burkina Faso since 2022. Traoré took control of Burkina Faso in September 2022, ousting interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in a coup d’état.[4]
That Observer at World’s End
The St Petersburg Economic Forum is being held from 18-21 June 2025. On Friday, Vladimir Putin will deliver a speech which will be followed by Q &A. People from all over the world will be in the audience and can ask the President questions. The forum is one of the world’s largest platforms for discussing global challenges and new models of cooperation in a rapidly changing world. Today, Putin held a Q &A session with foreign journalists. Questions from West Europeans were, as expected, revealing- they displayed the Western mindset which seems fixed in 200 years of stone.
An Observer at World’s End**
I am not sure what the true purpose of his visit to Russia is but he said it was his first time there ….. in orderto attend the St Petersburg forum, that he was very impressed by the range of people and countries at the forum, the issues of global significance being discussed, and that it was very important for countries outside of the West to meet at such a forum for cooperation and to discuss how best to deal with the great challenges, and to make progress for a better future.Dominic Machado in his blog-site Murali End
I fully expected to open the phone that morning and see Sri Lanka all out for 150 before lunch. But to my surprise, Sri Lanka had not capitulated. They were 183/5, with Kusal Perera (43) and Angelo Mathews (74) at the crease. For the next hour, I was glued to my screen, watching the runs tick over as tea approached, with Angelo getting to his seventh test century. I boarded the train with the hope that Angelo and Kusal might power Sri Lanka to a most unlikely victory.
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Arlen van der Wall
In the city of Colombo in the 1940s and 1950s the Bambalapitiya strip between Lion House and Saraswathi Lodge was Colombo’s walk of fame. You did not have to be rich or famous to enter the mythologies that accompanied the virtual sidewalk stars.
Courtesy of THE NATIONAL TRUST
Dr. Janani Seneviratne and Mr. Tuvins Amarasingha presented an illustrated lecture on the “Artistic heritage and painting techniques of ancient Painters”
The Monthly Lecture Series No: 170 of the National Trust Thursday 29th May 2025 at 6.00 pm at the Auditorium of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, No. 6, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7.
For those who join online: see https://youtube.com/live/)
Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne, in The Island, 13 June 2025, where the title runs thus: “They came, they won, they returned to Jaffna isles”
This is about the children of Kytes Island J/Thambaddy Government Tamil Mixed Vidyalayam and J/Delft Maha Vidyalayam in the northernmost inhabited island of Sri Lanka. They travelled to Colombo and won in the China-Sri Lanka Friendship Cup Dragon Boat Regatta Junior (Under 18) section held in the Diyawannawa lake last week.
Jihan Hameed in FACEBOOK, June 2025 …. with highlighting added by The editor, Thuppahi
We Must Never Forget Women Like Rajani Thiranagama.
The cost of national betrayal is written in the blood of the brave.
In a nation drowning under political terrorism and foreign subversion, few stood with the moral courage to resist from within. Dr. Rajani Thiranagama was one of them. Her life, and brutal death reveal the ruthless nature of the very forces that have kept Sri Lanka divided for decades.
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