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
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has said she expects a way out of her country’s political crisis “in the coming weeks”, while insisting that Venezuelans inside and outside the country must
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US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he believes the United States and Cuba will reach an agreement on a change of regime and indicated that military action would not be
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Sri Lanka’s opposition is preparing to bring a no-confidence motion against parliamentary Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne containing 46 allegations concerning his official activities and the use of state property and resources, according to
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by Our Correspondent in Hong Kong SAR The speed of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flight between Beijing and Washington has exposed an unusual consequence of the competing airspace restrictions imposed after Russia’s
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For Kleyton Zacarioto, a 39-year-old butcher near São Paulo’s historic centre, Brazil’s economic recovery has yet to translate into easier household finances. Customers have been buying less meat for years as food
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India has ordered 112 captive coal-fired power plants to operate at maximum capacity from October 1 through the end of December, citing an expected increase in electricity demand in the coming months.
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Over three decades, China has transformed from a relatively poor economy into the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity, overtaking both the United States and the European Union. In 1990, China’s
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Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, 44, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after documenting protests and civilian suffering in Iran, a punishment she says was imposed because she continued to work
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Friedrich Merz is facing the deepest crisis of his chancellorship after 16 months in office, with his promised programme of economic reforms still largely unrealised and growing dissatisfaction among German voters. The
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Sri Lanka may have spent years looking for a deep state in the wrong place. The more immediate concern is whether a disciplined political organisation is gradually extending its influence across state
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As Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump concluded a three-day state visit on Friday, attention extended beyond bilateral talks, the state dinner and military ceremonies to the highly visible
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Peng Liyuan and Melania Trump opened an unusually personal channel in US-China relations during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day state visit to Washington, with their frequent and apparently spontaneous interactions providing a
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For more than two decades, Pakistan has conducted repeated counterterrorism campaigns against Taliban militants and Baloch insurgents in its western regions bordering Afghanistan and Iran. Yet the country remains caught in a
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An increasing number of doctoral graduates from China’s leading universities and prestigious overseas institutions are taking jobs as secondary school teachers, as a growing supply of highly trained researchers collides with intense
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OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models accessed publicly available information from US government websites, including those operated by the Census Bureau and the Securities and Exchange Commission, people familiar with the matter said. The
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