The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
Sri Lanka police have requested the Department of Fisheries to prevent fishing boats arriving from the outer sea from entering Beruwala Harbor for two hours on 6 September, citing a potential security
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For generations of aspiring investors, Robert Kiyosaki’s name has been closely associated with a simple but provocative proposition: debt can be a tool for building wealth. His 1997 bestseller, Rich Dad, Poor
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Nearly 30 officers and officials have reportedly left Sri Lanka’s Parliament in recent months to take up employment elsewhere, with most of those departing said to have moved to the private sector.
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India and China are expected to hold Corps Commander-level talks in the coming days amid reports of tension in the Taksing area of Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Subansiri district, as both sides continue
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On a Monday evening in May, Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama sat down for dinner with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a Japanese restaurant inside a 400-year-old garden in central Tokyo.
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Air India has terminated the employment of the pilot-in-command of an Airbus A320 flight involved in a sudden altitude loss after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) flagged and confirmed a positive
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The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for greater use of world maps that more accurately represent the relative size of Africa and other continents, in a vote led
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For nine months, the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln have lived largely within the confines of a warship. This week, 5,000 American military personnel arrived in and around Pattaya, Thailand, as
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The US government has approved a planned $5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, a major weapons deal that Washington says will strengthen the kingdom’s ability to respond to current and future
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The US trial of Lindsay Clancy, who admitted killing her three children, has ended without a verdict after jurors failed to agree on whether the 36-year-old was criminally responsible for the deaths.
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A Turkish court in Istanbul has accepted an indictment against comedian Deniz Göktaş over jokes made during an online comedy show, potentially exposing the 32-year-old to a prison sentence of up to
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El Salvador did not use public funds to accumulate bitcoin after the first review of its International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, according to the IMF, which said documentation provided by Salvadoran
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The double earthquake on June 24 and recent torrential rains in Caracas have reopened an old wound in Venezuela: the plight of families who have spent years waiting for state-provided housing while
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Former Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera is emerging in internal political discussions as a possible common candidate for Sri Lanka’s next presidential election, according to
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As President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for their next summit, an increasingly urgent question hangs over their rivalry: can the world’s two leading AI powers cooperate on the
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