by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The Spanish Government’s decision to declassify 40 reports and communications relating to the migration crisis in Ceuta offers an unusually detailed reconstruction of the days before, during and immediately after the mass irregular entry of between 70,000 and 80,000
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The Afghanistan’s mineral resources have traditionally been one of hidden wealth ready
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The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, opening with a discussion on
A high-level Indian defence delegation accompanying the Indian Defence Minister on his official visit to Sri Lanka met Sri Lanka’s Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd), at the Ministry of Defence on 09 Sept, according to the
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Mahishini Colonne highlighted opportunities for closer bilateral cooperation at the Ambassadors’ Conference on Healthcare Technologies and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing,
The Italian Naval Vessel ‘ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi’ arrived in Sri Lanka on 9 September 2026 on a replenishment visit, with the Sri Lanka Navy
Taiwan is betting that drones can transform both its military preparedness and its industrial future, but the country’s ambitious plans are colliding with an uncomfortable question: can Taipei build thousands of effective unmanned systems quickly enough to matter in a crisis across the Taiwan
The Makkah Joint Defense Agreement has emerged at a moment when the
Pakistan is home to a diverse mosaic of religious communities, including Christians,
Pakistan marked National Minorities Day on August 11 with renewed official commitments
In this cultural and philosophical essay, Martina Moneke begins with The Economist’s reflection on AI-planned travel and follows its implications beyond tourism. She argues that personalized systems do more than help people choose: they shape what enters a person’s field of vision. Whether guided
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has asked British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reopen discussions over the sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Islands, arguing that the Maldives should have been consulted before the United Kingdom agreed to transfer control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to
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India’s two-year-old plan to fence its entire border with Myanmar has gained
When Milan Shrestha returned to the aftermath of devastating floods in northern
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Hitler was cornered in his Berlin bunker, desperate and approaching suicide, when he declared: “I am Europe’s last chance.” As a continent burned and lay devastated by his own actions, he still
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OpenAI is calling for mandatory national artificial intelligence safety requirements in the United States, arguing that the rapid increase in AI capabilities has made voluntary industry commitments inadequate and raised new concerns
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OpenAI has claimed to have solved one of the most celebrated problems
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The world is living through an age of extremes, according to UN
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The mountain section whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the disaster, according to meteorological data reconstructed and analysed by Robert Rohde, chief scientist at the independent
Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global
For more than a century, the idea of replacing a failing human organ with one taken from an animal has hovered between medical ambition
by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
