When Max-Erich Feuchtinger died in 1960, he was remembered as one of West Germany’s leading transport planners. His designs had shaped the reconstruction of bombed-out Ulm, while he had planned motorways near Cologne and across the Brenner Pass. In Stuttgart, he helped move parts
Rachel Goldberg-Polin does not describe grief as a process that steadily diminishes
Pakistan’s latest strikes inside Afghanistan mark a shift from years of diplomacy
In this op-ed, Iran’s ambassador to Sri Lanka challenges Colombo’s decision to
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo President Anura Kumara Dissanayake reacted angrily after learning that Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera had been stripped of his Buddhist robes and brought before
The controversy over Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera being taken to court in prison attire is more than a dispute over prison regulations. Read against the arguments of Revolt in the Temple, it revives a deeper struggle over the power of the
Sri Lankan Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian Sivagnanam Sritharan has called on the government to lift the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The US Navy littoral combat ship USS Tulsa arrived at the Port of Colombo on Wednesday for a scheduled port visit, marking its second
The European Parliament has adopted a significantly tougher position on China, calling Beijing a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine, warning that Chinese industrial policy poses an “existential threat” to the European Union, and urging a continuous European naval presence and joint exercises
Governments and political leaders are adopting increasingly different strategies to protect themselves
The death of a laboratory worker in Siberia has triggered international concern
The arrest of August Hanning, Germany’s former intelligence chief, has prompted calls
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra argues that financial stability cannot mean preventing every crisis; it means building a system capable of absorbing shocks before they become systemic. With global debt, stretched asset valuations, rising leverage, AI-driven risks and geopolitical fragmentation intensifying uncertainty, India may be
Israelis will mark three years since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack on Wednesday, commemorating the deadliest day in the country’s history while Gaza remains devastated and a year-old ceasefire has failed to end violence or resolve the central dispute over Hamas’s weapons and
Pacific nations have called for a major increase in global efforts to
Iran-aligned Houthi forces attacked Aden International Airport with ballistic missiles and explosive-laden
A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty on Tuesday to wire fraud
Rachel Goldberg-Polin does not describe grief as a process that steadily diminishes with time. Since the death of her son Hersh, who was abducted by Hamas and killed after 328 days in
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When Max-Erich Feuchtinger died in 1960, he was remembered as one of West Germany’s leading transport planners. His designs had shaped the reconstruction of bombed-out Ulm, while he had planned motorways near
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The controversy over Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera being taken to court in prison attire is more than a dispute over prison regulations. Read against the arguments of Revolt in the Temple, it revives
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo President Anura Kumara Dissanayake reacted angrily after learning that Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera had been stripped of his Buddhist robes and brought before
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China’s export engine retains room to expand, but its longer-term prospects may increasingly depend on whether overseas economies can generate enough growth to absorb rising volumes of Chinese products. A Goldman Sachs
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The European Parliament has adopted a significantly tougher position on China, calling Beijing a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine, warning that Chinese industrial policy poses an “existential threat” to the
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RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra argues that financial stability cannot mean preventing every crisis; it means building a system capable of absorbing shocks before they become systemic. With global debt, stretched asset valuations,
More In this op-ed, Iran’s ambassador to Sri Lanka challenges Colombo’s decision to observe unilateral U.S. sanctions affecting Iranian vessels, arguing that the policy sits uneasily with Sri Lanka’s non-aligned tradition, its international
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Sri Lankan Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian Sivagnanam Sritharan has called on the government to lift the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and allow Tamil communities to commemorate those
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The US Navy littoral combat ship USS Tulsa arrived at the Port of Colombo on Wednesday for a scheduled port visit, marking its second visit to Sri Lanka in two years and
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China has established a new military facility in Laos, expanding its overseas military footprint into a country where Beijing has historically competed for influence with Vietnam. The China-Laos Joint Support and Training
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How much risk is the AI boom creating in the rest of the economy? Tales of financial stress caused by high interest rates are proliferating
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pledged stable and constructive relations with China while simultaneously defending a harder security posture that Beijing views as increasingly confrontational. The resulting gap between Tokyo’s diplomatic
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SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son, one of the technology industry’s strongest advocates for artificial intelligence, has warned that increasingly powerful AI systems could become “super dangerous” if placed in the wrong hands, calling for greater international cooperation to manage the technology. Speaking on Sunday
David Robinson, a long-serving safety employee at OpenAI, has left the company
OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated campaign in which operators attempted to
Alphabet unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, describing it as its most
American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that transformed scientists’ ability to study the brain
Around 5.8 million refugee children did not attend school in 2025, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, leaving 44 per cent of the world’s 13.2 million school-age refugee children without access to an educational institution. The agency warned
China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty
Researchers in Europe are developing a 3D bioprinting platform that can create living bone, fat and muscle tissue by combining stem cells with genetically
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