New Zealand prime minister John Key has announced plans for a referendum on whether to change the country’s national flag.
New Zealand prime minister John Key has raised the possibility of holding a referendum on changing the flag of the country and drop the Union Jack.
Prime minister David Cameron has become the first foreign leader to northern Sri Lanka and meet Tamil leaders since Sri Lankan independence in 1948.
The Commonwealth – that unique values-based association of now 53 member states, almost all of whom are former British colonies – is facing one of its periodic existential crises, which will require another significant reinvention.
Commonwealth chiefs are facing growing calls to censure Sri Lanka over continued human rights abuses and relocate a high-level summit due to take place in Colombo later this year.