On Sunday, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returned home after ten months in exile. In the time since she last set foot on Venezuelan soil, the United States arrested authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro on narco-terrorism charges and installed Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as
For decades, the label “Made in China” was associated with inexpensive clothing,
The abduction and sexual abuse of Alawite women and girls in Syria
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has endorsed opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot
Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate facing investigations over suspected corruption
Editorial The death of a man in police custody is not an administrative mishap to be explained away by a routine statement from the Police Media Division. It is a matter of
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) has accused the National People’s Power (NPP) government of allowing deeper military cooperation with the United States and warned of an alleged proposal involving Israel and other foreign powers to establish a “spaceport”
A special three-judge High Court in Colombo has sentenced a 63-year-old defendant, known as Gafur Mama and Abu Hadeep, to 60 years of rigorous
Sri Lankan Customs officers have seized narcotics with an estimated street value of 60.265 million rupees ($60.2 million in Sri Lankan rupees, not US
Germany’s response to the July 2026 attack in Berlin illustrates a gap between identifying a terrorism threat and taking effective preventive action, according to an analysis published in the latest issue of the CIC Sentinel, the flagship publication of the Combating Terrorism Center. The
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, one of al-Qa`ida’s most durable
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has built an ideological case for suicide
The competition received a good response from college students across India. Considering
Children form their understanding of society through the people around them: the person who greets them at the classroom door, the coach who notices when something’s wrong, the nurse who explains a scary procedure gently, the librarian who saves a book, the neighbor who
An Argentine lawmaker has filed a criminal complaint seeking an investigation into how Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro entered Argentina and flew to the United States despite a judicial order prohibiting him from leaving Brazil. The complaint, lodged by Marcela Pagano before the Federal Court
Pakistan has restored overflight rights to two Taiwanese airlines after restricting their
Israeli police have found no evidence supporting allegations by Prime Minister Benjamin
Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom plans to increase the number of Russian
Germany’s response to the July 2026 attack in Berlin illustrates a gap between identifying a terrorism threat and taking effective preventive action, according to an analysis published in the latest issue of
More Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, one of al-Qa`ida’s most durable assets may be a name rather than a commander, training camp or headquarters. Usama bin Ladin has been dead since
More The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has built an ideological case for suicide attacks that differs sharply from the religious justifications used by many militant organisations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rather than promising
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An Argentine lawmaker has filed a criminal complaint seeking an investigation into how Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro entered Argentina and flew to the United States despite a judicial order prohibiting him from
More Pakistan has restored overflight rights to two Taiwanese airlines after restricting their access to its airspace for three days, according to reports by the Associated Press, Bloomberg and Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper. The
More Israeli police have found no evidence supporting allegations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party that Arab political parties rigged Tuesday’s parliamentary election, according to local media, as preliminary results left the
More Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom plans to increase the number of Russian specialists working at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant to 700, its chief executive, Alexey Likhachev, said on Wednesday, signalling an
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On Sunday, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returned home after ten months in exile. In the time since she last set foot on Venezuelan soil, the United States arrested authoritarian leader
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Editorial The death of a man in police custody is not an administrative mishap to be explained away by a routine statement from the Police Media Division. It is a matter of
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The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) has accused the National People’s Power (NPP) government of allowing deeper military cooperation with the United States and warned of an alleged proposal involving Israel
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A special three-judge High Court in Colombo has sentenced a 63-year-old defendant, known as Gafur Mama and Abu Hadeep, to 60 years of rigorous imprisonment for collecting explosives and a T-56 assault
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Sri Lankan Customs officers have seized narcotics with an estimated street value of 60.265 million rupees ($60.2 million in Sri Lankan rupees, not US dollars) from nine international mail parcels at the
More For decades, the label “Made in China” was associated with inexpensive clothing, plastic toys, furniture and basic electronics. That association is becoming increasingly outdated. Chinese factories are now exporting electric vehicles, industrial
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Australia’s corporate regulator is investigating the role of investment banks in promoting the initial public offering of Firmus, a data centre operator backed by Nvidia, after concerns emerged over information provided to
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Alphabet shares fell more than 10% after the Google parent reported negative free cash flow of $9.07 billion in the third quarter, alongside revenue and earnings that fell short of Wall Street
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China’s technology stock rally has suffered a sharp reversal, with the mainland’s STAR50 index, dominated by artificial intelligence and semiconductor companies, falling 40% in less than four months and erasing about $480 billion in market value. The collapse has raised concerns about further losses,
The cancellation of a book launch in Madrid has exposed a growing
Wall Street’s focus is shifting from how quickly artificial intelligence will expand
Microsoft researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that diagnoses patients by
Plastic waste has reached some of the planet’s most remote environments, from the frozen waters of Antarctica to tropical coastlines and densely populated communities in developing countries. The documentary Homo Plastic traces
The release of You Can See Everything, a film documenting the final weeks before Elizabeth Holmes went to prison in 2023, has returned the disgraced entrepreneur and her failed blood-testing company, Theranos, to public attention. But while the film revisits
Scientists have mapped the human brain’s insular cortex, or insula, in unprecedented detail, identifying distinct regions associated with pain, internal bodily sensations and higher-order
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
Money, technological success and the promise of personal freedom have failed to deliver happiness to the billionaire family at the centre of Philipp Oehmke’s new novel, Papenburg. In a review published by
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
