A UN report has documented 1,004 cases of sexual violence in Ukraine between February 2022 and July 2026, with 89 per cent attributed to Russian Federation authorities and 11 per cent to Ukrainian authorities. The findings describe rape, gang rape, genital violence, electric shocks,
The question now is what the EU intends to do with the
The Pinglu Canal is more than a shortcut to the sea. By
The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on September 12–13, occurred amid
The emerging maritime partnership between Pakistan’s Gwadar Port and Oman’s Sohar Port
For more than seven months, the military confrontation between the United States and Iran has transformed parts of the Middle East into a zone of heightened geopolitical tension. Yet the consequences have
The Palk Strait has long been a source of tension between Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, but the growing drug threat offers an opportunity to build practical cooperation. By sharing intelligence, strengthening maritime coordination and working together against trafficking and
Thirty-four new U.S. Peace Corps Trainee Volunteers have arrived in Sri Lanka this week, beginning preparations for two years of service focused on American
A reunion at the Home of Veterans in Akuregoda leads Admiral Ravi Wijegunaratne back to memories of his service in Mannar in 1985, when
Sakina knew the risks. In the final days of her pregnancy, she was living in Pas Kuran, a village in Kuran wa Munjan, one of the most remote districts in northeastern Afghanistan. The nearest health centre was beyond a 30-kilometre stretch of steep, unpaved
For Yuli Novak, the crisis facing Israel and the Palestinians cannot be
Paul B. Preciado has spent much of his intellectual life questioning the
At 14, Sabrina González Pasterski built her own aircraft and learned to
In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an ideological weapon for the Cold War. All societies, he argued, travelled along
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday that Seoul would not deploy military assets to the Middle East in a way that could draw the country into war, while acknowledging that the government was considering a greater role in protecting navigation and
Russia is increasingly using missiles originally designed for air-defence training to sustain
The United States has approved the potential sale of Lockheed Martin’s F-35
Sweden’s centre-left opposition has emerged from the country’s parliamentary election with a
A UN report has documented 1,004 cases of sexual violence in Ukraine between February 2022 and July 2026, with 89 per cent attributed to Russian Federation authorities and 11 per cent to
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday that Seoul would not deploy military assets to the Middle East in a way that could draw the country into war, while acknowledging
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Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD will immediately recall more than 180,000 cars to address a manufacturing defect affecting a brake pedal component, China’s market regulator said on Friday. The recall covers 183,211
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Volkswagen is recalling 208,724 vehicles in the United States because of a faulty steering rack bolt that could break and result in a loss of steering control, the US National Highway Traffic
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The China-India relationship is showing signs of a broader diplomatic engagement, with Indian defence experts at the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum pointing to artificial intelligence governance, maritime security and multilateral cooperation as
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For decades, one of the foundations of American financial power was the relationship between oil and the US dollar. The oil shocks of the 1970s generated enormous current-account surpluses for petroleum exporters,
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One humid morning in July, Miriam Wickertsheim woke to a phone filled with more than 100 messages from people around the world asking how they could find work in China. For the
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Hong Kong has unveiled its first five-year strategic blueprint, placing the financial sector at the centre of its economic strategy and describing finance as the city’s “pivotal and crowning strength”. The plan,
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More Paul B. Preciado has spent much of his intellectual life questioning the boundaries that separate male from female, normal from pathological and accepted identities from those placed outside the social norm. Now
More At 14, Sabrina González Pasterski built her own aircraft and learned to fly it. At 22, she wrote a paper on gravitational memory and black holes that was subsequently cited by Stephen
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For two centuries, mathematicians have struggled with a deceptively simple question: can the equations that describe the movement of fluids suddenly break down? Now, according to reporting by New Scientist, OpenAI says its artificial intelligence systems have found a mathematical construction demonstrating that such
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US President Donald Trump has dismissed calls for stronger safeguards on artificial
Britain’s King Charles will host leaders of major artificial intelligence companies this
The research team recovered 8173 arthropod remains, of which 8082 could be taxonomically identified, representing a minimum number of 5792 individuals. The remains included species associated with human decomposition as well as
The Government of Fiji has declared a national emergency to address a rapid increase in HIV infections, seeking to contain the virus and protect public health. The health crisis, first evident in January 2025, has seen infections rise sharply, with
Chinese researchers have developed what they describe as the world’s smallest CT scanner, a portable machine weighing just 6kg (13.2lbs) and designed to produce
The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than they did a decade ago, threatening water security as the region moves
by Nil Sanjoy Hazarika’s most recent work, Lal Thanhawla: The Boy from Zarkawt, and the Making of Mizoram is presented as a biography, but its real ambition is considerably larger. “What started
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
