Editorial Washington has moved from threatening an “Economic D-Day” against Iran to putting it into operation. On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast”, an expanded sanctions campaign intended to sever Iran’s remaining financial and commercial lifelines and intensify pressure on
Through burial practice, it is believed that the living create, affirm, and
Today, the Indian Ocean is facing a fresh wave of great-power competition.
On August 16, 2026, Juel Bhuiyan, 26, a suspected associate of the
On August 19, 2026, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist, Abdullah, was killed
Investment promotion has been Colombo’s default strategy for two decades. The real barrier to foreign capital was never Sri Lanka’s pitch — it is Sri Lanka’s paperwork and administrative complexity. For more
The third phase of excavation at the alleged Chemmani mass grave site in Jaffna concluded last Wednesday, 19, with another set of human remains located and ten sets fully exhumed. The discoveries brought the total number of identified sets of
A challenge over the proposed extension of judges’ retirement ages has intensified after the Bar Association of Sri Lanka asked Chief Justice Preethi Padman
The mother of former State Intelligence Service chief Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay has appealed to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake not to extend her
When Xi Jinping began his first term as China’s president, Beijing repeatedly insisted that its sweeping anti-corruption campaign was not “just a gust of wind”. The warning reflected an early concern that the crackdown might prove temporary, particularly at the local level, where Communist
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered the immediate launch of
Member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are navigating a common
The gravest danger in the present war is not that Iran has
In 1991 President George H.W. Bush announced unilateral, sweeping reductions in U.S. tactical nuclear forces. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was supposed to take parallel steps, but he hardly got the chance as the Soviet Union disintegrated. Now, 35 years later, the Pentagon is nervous that Russia might
Ukraine and Britain are to expand cooperation on the military use of artificial intelligence, combining Ukraine’s battlefield experience with Britain’s technology and research capabilities in a partnership that could extend from the war in Ukraine to the protection of critical infrastructure in Britain. British
Syria has been removed from the United States’ list of state sponsors
Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to attend next month’s BRICS summit
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas
Forty-five years ago, Mel Brooks imagined a comic future in which ultra-Orthodox Jewish astronauts protected the Jewish people from gentiles. At the end of his 1981 film History of the World, Part
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When Xi Jinping began his first term as China’s president, Beijing repeatedly insisted that its sweeping anti-corruption campaign was not “just a gust of wind”. The warning reflected an early concern that
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat to unleash an “economic D-Day” against Iran risks placing the United States on a collision course with China, Tehran’s main trading partner and the buyer of
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran had attempted to assassinate one of his two sons, but provided no details about the alleged plot or identified which son was
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China is expanding a global network of gold vaults and accelerating central bank gold purchases as Beijing seeks to strengthen the yuan’s role in international trade, according to an S&P Global Ratings
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Editorial Washington has moved from threatening an “Economic D-Day” against Iran to putting it into operation. On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast”, an expanded sanctions campaign intended
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Singapore is offering families more than €47,000 for each child under the age of 18 as part of a new package announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, in one of the city-state’s
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Ukraine and Britain are to expand cooperation on the military use of artificial intelligence, combining Ukraine’s battlefield experience with Britain’s technology and research capabilities in a partnership that could extend from the
More Syria has been removed from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism, marking another significant step in the Trump administration’s easing of sanctions against the country and potentially making it
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In Karur, near the southern tip of India, the rise of artificial intelligence is visible not only in technology but in the hundreds of young people who fill the city’s streets during breaks from work. Men and women in their 20s move between offices
The company says it has temporarily paused some advanced reinforcement-learning training as
Meta faces its most consequential legal challenge as a former engineer alleges
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Australia has confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal, after the highly pathogenic virus was detected in a long-nosed fur seal in South Australia, authorities said on Sunday.
Several years ago, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell began noticing a striking change among teenage girls and young women arriving for their first psychiatric sessions. Instead of waiting anxiously to hear whether a professional believed something was wrong with them, many arrived
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The smartphone has turned even the bathroom into a place of digital escape, raising wider questions about attention, relationships and the ability to disconnect.
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
by Luxman Laura K. Field’s Furious Minds is an ambitious and often unsettling attempt to explain not merely what the MAGA New Right believes, but how a movement once dismissed as a
