Sri Lanka’s new Chinese Ambassador, Wei Huaxiang, met VIII Executive President Ranil Wickremesinghe at his political office on Flower Road in Colombo, in an engagement between China’s new diplomatic representative and the
North Korea has revised the rules governing its ruling Workers’ Party in ways that strengthen Kim Jong Un’s authority and lay the groundwork for more centralised control, according to a report by
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In any democratic country, a constitution is more than a book of laws. It is the supreme social contract between the rulers and the ruled. Yet Sri Lanka’s political history presents a
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The battle over Torreciudad, the spiritual heart of Opus Dei in Spain, has moved from a local dispute into a revealing test of power inside the Catholic Church. Newly disclosed handwritten letters
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For millions of Japanese children, the end of the summer holiday marks a familiar transition: uniforms are put back on, alarm clocks are reset and classrooms fill again after weeks away from
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The disaster that struck the Nepal-China border on August 26 has forced scientists to reconsider how high-mountain hazards are assessed. What began with the collapse of a glacier-rock system near Langtang Lirung
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For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin has pursued political objectives through military escalation. The question now confronting Europe is not simply whether the Russian president intends to continue the war in
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While the Iran War dominates international headlines, Russia continues to conduct increasingly brazen external operations on European soil. The pattern is becoming harder to dismiss as a series of isolated incidents: assassination
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The fragile ceasefire and current status quo of the war between the United States and Iran were tested over the weekend as the U.S. military launched its first strikes in over a
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Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful
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Sri Lankan textile-led fashion designer Ruwanthi Gajadeera presented an original cyanotype to King Charles III on Wednesday at a garden party marking the 125th anniversary of the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship.
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China is preparing to open the Pinglu Canal, a 72.7 billion yuan (US$10.8 billion) waterway designed to accelerate trade between the country’s inland manufacturing regions and Southeast Asia, with its first command
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China is stepping up its effort to become a global leader in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), approving a series of brain-technology products this year as domestic start-ups seek to compete with overseas companies
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Twenty-one people have been confirmed dead and 541 others remain missing following a mudslide that struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, according to figures released
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OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, a forthcoming artificial intelligence model that the company says is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold” after demonstrating an ability to
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Anthropic has released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, twin versions of what the company describes as its most advanced AI model, combining performance improvements with changes designed to reduce token costs and
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