General Mark Milley, the former Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, called the US evacuation a ‘strategic failure’ and said that the US lost the war ‘in a broader sense.’ Meanwhile, the minister of veterans affairs of the UK gave a damning testimony about the shocking accounts of serial murder and attempted cover-ups by SAS personnel in Afghanistan. [...] From the time I was nominated as a candidate for the presidency, large sections of the Tamil population, the Muslim population, the overseas Tamil groups, the foreign-funded NGOs, and certain countries with large expatriate Tamil populations were openly hostile to the thought of having me as the President of Sri Lanka. [...] The pollution in the capital largely reflects the air quality in the rest of the country. [...] The pollutants generated in the region, combined with pollutants brought into the region by winds from the Indian Ocean, get trapped by the high Himalayas in the north of the region. [...] These changes in the patterns are strongly related to factors such as the quantity and quality of the youth of the region as well as the workforce absorption capacity of the national economies.
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