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GENEVA — A group of Western and allied nations renewed pressure on Sri Lanka on Monday to repeal its controversial anti-terrorism legislation and accelerate long-promised human rights reforms, warning that years of commitments have produced limited tangible results. Speaking at the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Eleanor Sanders, the United Kingdom’s human rights ambassador, delivered a statement on behalf of the Sri Lanka Core Group — Canada, Malawi, Montenegro, North

TEHRAN — For 37 years, Ali Khamenei held a country of 90 million people in his hands. He controlled its military, shaped its courts, sanctioned its security forces, and set the terms under which Iranians could speak, assemble, believe, and dissent. On Saturday, March 1, 2026, the morning after Iranian state television broadcast images of missile strikes on military installations in and around Tehran, international outlets reported his death. Iranian state authorities disputed the claim. The ambi