Children as young as 12 are becoming involved in attacks linked to online communities that glorify mass shootings, celebrate violence and exploit vulnerable young people, according to an assessment by The Soufan Center, which warns that youth involvement in violent extremism and extreme violence
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Having failed on multiple occasions to reach consensus with the LTTE, Sri Lanka, finally, during President Mahinda Rajapaksa tenure, launched all-out war. The LTTE lasted two years and 10 months. In spite
by Our Correspondent in Geneva Sri Lanka has told the United Nations that the investigation leading to the arrest of retired Major General Suresh Sallay, former chief of the State Intelligence Service, originated with a complaint filed by a Catholic
Sri Lanka lost an estimated Rs 29.5 billion in potential tax revenue in 2025 because of illicit factory-made cigarette consumption, according to an economic
A familiar storm gathers Sri Lanka’s inflation reached 8% in September 2026, above the Central Bank’s 3–7% target band for a third straight month,
Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion by a judge in New Mexico after being found liable for repeatedly misleading Facebook users about privacy protections and content moderation. The ruling, one of the largest penalties imposed on the technology company, follows a case
Brazil’s presidential election has become the focus of allegations that artificial intelligence
China has lodged a formal diplomatic representation with the United Kingdom after
The French Revolution promised liberty and equality but descended into purges, repression
Sri Lanka’s recovery under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake presents a fundamental test of working-class liberalism: whether economic discipline can be reconciled with social justice, decent employment and democratic accountability. The government has made progress in stabilisation and introduced measures to support vulnerable communities, but
Marine Le Pen has gained support in the first opinion poll on France’s 2027 presidential election conducted since violent unrest at demonstrations over the weekend, according to a new survey by Ifop, with the far-right politician receiving between 34% and 38% of first-round voting
A sixth round of United Nations-backed talks aimed at addressing the war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated threats against Iran and a previously
A new poll puts the right-wing senator one point down in a
Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion by a judge in New Mexico after being found liable for repeatedly misleading Facebook users about privacy protections and content moderation. The ruling, one
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Global Islamic finance industry assets are projected to exceed US$10.5 trillion by 2030, up from US$6.5 trillion in 2025, as Islamic banking expands, sukuk issuance grows and adoption spreads across emerging markets,
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Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, one of the internet’s most widely used programming languages, are threatening web applications worldwide, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has warned, raising concerns about potential
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Marine Le Pen has gained support in the first opinion poll on France’s 2027 presidential election conducted since violent unrest at demonstrations over the weekend, according to a new survey by Ifop,
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Children as young as 12 are becoming involved in attacks linked to online communities that glorify mass shootings, celebrate violence and exploit vulnerable young people, according to an assessment by The Soufan
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Having failed on multiple occasions to reach consensus with the LTTE, Sri Lanka, finally, during President Mahinda Rajapaksa tenure, launched all-out war. The LTTE lasted two years and 10 months. In spite
More Pakistan’s missing-persons controversy centres on a fundamental question: how can authorities distinguish enforced disappearances from other cases of unexplained absence while ensuring that credible allegations of state involvement are independently investigated? Although
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Sri Lanka’s recovery under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake presents a fundamental test of working-class liberalism: whether economic discipline can be reconciled with social justice, decent employment and democratic accountability. The government has
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More Former BBC News Bangla journalist Salahuddin Sumon has transformed digital travel filmmaking by merging newsroom rigor with human-centered storytelling, reaching millions of Bengali-speaking viewers across South Asia and the global diaspora. From
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Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, one of the internet’s most widely used programming languages, are threatening web applications worldwide, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has warned, raising concerns about potential attacks on websites, servers and sensitive data. “Critical vulnerabilities within the PHP
OpenCode, an open-source artificial intelligence coding agent, said attackers had breached an
Microsoft has introduced new security features designed to monitor and control artificial
Harvard Business School and Imperial College London are using artificial intelligence to
The United States has recorded 4,410 confirmed measles cases in 2026, more than double the total reported throughout 2025 and the highest level of transmission since 1991, according to the Centers for
Google is expanding access to an experimental artificial intelligence system designed to analyse planetary data, identify public health risks and support disaster preparedness, after early trials with international organisations demonstrated how complex geospatial investigations could be completed in minutes rather
A Neanderthal who died from a penetrating spear wound about 75,000 years ago had previously survived a severe facial injury that may have required
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Pooneryn Terror Attack offers a compelling account of a pivotal battle in Sri Lanka’s civil war, exposing both the LTTE’s strategic planning and the vulnerabilities of the defending forces. Yet its commemorative
D.L. Hughley’s memoir challenges the comforting idea that success liberates us from our beginnings. Through fractured family relationships, racial disadvantage, fame, infidelity and the demands of fatherhood, he confronts the unsettling possibility
Greg Steinmetz’s The President and the Oligarch revisits the struggle between Andrew Mellon and the political forces challenging his economic vision, revealing how the language of prosperity and fiscal responsibility can conceal
by Nil There is something almost unsettling about the fact that Charles Spencer’s most intimate book about Diana begins, in effect, with a question of possession: who knew her best? His mother,
