The return of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera to prison has revived an old confrontation between religious influence and judicial authority. His contempt case, examined alongside landmark rulings from Sri Lanka, Britain, the
US voters will decide control of Congress and 36 state governorships on November 3, in elections that will determine the balance of power for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s
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At least 117 journalists and media workers have fled Yemen’s western coastal city of Mocha and surrounding areas after Houthi forces advanced into the region, with many leaving their homes, workplaces and
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OpenAI has halted the planned release of a new artificial intelligence model after internal testing raised concerns about its behaviour and transparency, according to the source. The model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra,
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US President Donald Trump has rejected remarks by his ambassador to China suggesting that he had offered Chinese President Xi Jinping the opportunity to buy US weapons, saying the diplomat was probably
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has resigned from office ahead of parliamentary elections on October 25, a move that allows him to contest the vote as the leading candidate of his Serbian Progressive
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Argentina has instructed its Foreign Ministry and government legal teams to initiate international arbitration against the United Kingdom over hydrocarbon activities in the Malvinas Islands, President Javier Milei announced on September 28.
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A US judge has authorised investment fund Titan Consortium to begin proceedings seeking the seizure of Argentine state assets abroad over a compensation dispute arising from Argentina’s 2008 expropriation of its national
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The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will increase the number of vessels permitted to transit the waterway each day from 32 to 33 starting October 15, 2026, following improved rainfall in the canal
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a five-percentage-point lead over far-right opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro six days before the first round of the presidential election, according to a Quaest voting-intention
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Lieutenant General Joel “JB” Vowell, Deputy Commanding General of the US Army Pacific (USARPAC), arrived in Colombo on September 29 for engagements with Sri Lankan military officials, becoming the highest-ranking US Army
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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,
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by Durga The most revealing sentence in Lindy Li’s Unburdened may be the one that sounds least like political analysis: “Why did I do it? You want the unvarnished truth…? It was
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by Eric A family history can begin with a birth certificate, a grave, a photograph or a name. Edward Ball begins somewhere more difficult: with a sexual encounter whose moral meaning cannot
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by Luxman Anthony Scaramucci’s most revealing confession may also be the sentence that prevents All the Wrong Moves from becoming a conventional anti-Trump polemic: “I bought into Donald Trump. That doesn’t reflect
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The formal end of the US military support mission in Iraq on September 30 will mark a major change in the relationship between Washington and Baghdad, shifting the emphasis from a US-led
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