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Ousted Lankan PM  challenges president’s decision in top court

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Bloomberg Sri Lanka’s ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is mounting a legal challenge against President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve the island nation’s parliament and call a snap general election. On Monday, the deposed prime minister’s United National Party and the opposition Tamil National Alliance filed formal petitions with the Supreme Court challenging the dissolution of parliament, according to party ...

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Fascist flags on Poland’s 100th birthday show fractured Europe

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Bloomberg Europe’s fault lines were on full display at the weekend as France and Germany made a show of unity at a World War I commemoration in Paris and Poland’s leaders marched through Warsaw with far-right groups. Police estimated more than 200,000 people converged on the Polish capital on Sunday to mark the centenary of the country’s hard-fought independence in ...

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US leaders could learn much from ghosts of 1918

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What would the ghosts of 1918 — not just the soldiers who were slaughtered in the trenches of World War I, but the statesmen who failed to make a durable peace afterward — tell politicians a century later about the perilous world we inhabit today? Ruminations about past and present are inescapable this week. America just finished a snarling, bitterly ...

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