Editorial Donald Trump may have succeeded in making himself the centre of American politics, but Barack Obama has just demonstrated that he remains one of the few Democrats capable of challenging him
India’s economy and government finances are coming under growing strain from the Iran war, as rising global energy prices and disrupted oil supplies increase inflation risks and pressure fiscal stability, according to
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A behind-the-scenes power struggle at Honda Motor has surfaced after retired senior executives attempted and failed to remove Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe over mounting concerns about the company’s strategy in China and
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Swiss lawmakers are debating revisions to proposed capital rules for UBS that could materially reduce the financial burden placed on Switzerland’s largest bank, following the collapse of Credit Suisse in 2023, according
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Sovereign bonds may be on the verge of regaining their traditional safe-haven status if geopolitical tensions linked to the Iran conflict escalate further, according to fund managers and analysts cited by Reuters.
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The United States has escalated its scrutiny of Chinese technology and industrial firms, adding some of the country’s most prominent companies—including Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, CATL, Unitree, Huawei, and chipmaker CXMT—to a Pentagon
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by Our Special Correspondent in Rome Claims by sources familiar with church affairs have reignited debate over how opportunities are distributed within Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church, with allegations that some promising priests
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Foreign investors continued to pull money out of Sri Lankan government securities even after the Central Bank of Sri Lanka moved aggressively to tighten monetary policy, highlighting growing pressure on the country’s
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by Luxman Aravind There is a peculiar habit among sections of Sri Lanka’s legal and political establishment: they speak as though constitutional principles exist in a vacuum, untouched by context, history, motive,
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The detention of former Intelligence Chief Suresh Sallay in connection with ongoing investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks took on a deeply personal dimension today, Monday, as
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A press release issued by the Sri Lanka Human Rights Centre has challenged circulating claims that the government has paid USD 8.094 billion in debt and interest this year, stating that the
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For months of war stretching across Gaza, Lebanon, and beyond, Israel’s skies have been crowded not with pilots, but with machines. According to internal documents obtained by Haaretz, the Israel Defense Forces’
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When Iranian missiles were launched toward Israel on Sunday for the first time since a 61-day ceasefire took hold, the fragile pause in hostilities across the Middle East gave way to renewed
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When Holger Klein was 18, he reached a breaking point in the middle of another night of racing thoughts. Sleep had become impossible. Reading no longer helped, and even alcohol failed to
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has issued a stark assessment of global security trends, warning that nuclear weapons are once again becoming central instruments of national power as decades of disarmament
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Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for a rare state visit to North Korea, marking his first trip to the country in seven years and setting the stage for closely watched
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