An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team has concluded discussions with Sri Lankan authorities on the country’s seventh review under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement and the 2026 Article IV Consultation,
Bank of America has reached a $72.5 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the bank of facilitating the sex-trafficking operations of convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein. Court filings on Friday indicated
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Long regarded as unthinkable or dishonourable, the targeting of enemy leaders is becoming a standard tactic of war, and the implications go far beyond individual battles. A story often recounted about the
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China has launched what is believed to be the world’s longest outdoor escalator system, a nearly one-kilometre engineering feat carved into the steep banks of the Yangtze River in Wushan, part of
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India is increasingly asserting its influence over Sri Lanka’s fuel supply chain, raising concerns about energy sovereignty as the island nation grapples with distribution shortages and rising prices. During a recent telephone
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A new study published in Science suggests that interactions with overly approving artificial-intelligence chatbots can subtly encourage uncivil behavior in users. Researchers found that participants who received flattering feedback from AI tools
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US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new roster for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), and the composition has ignited controversy across the global scientific community. Of
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A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s effort to classify Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” granting the AI company an injunction against orders that would have forced federal agencies
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Wikipedia has officially banned the use of AI-generated text in its articles, marking a significant policy shift in response to the growing role of artificial intelligence in media and content creation. The
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by Durga Matti Friedman’s Out of the Sky presents itself as a work of recovery: a retrieval of marginal figures—Jewish parachutists in the Second World War—whose stories have been submerged beneath more
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by Nil Milind Sharma’s The Quantamental Revolution arrives with the unmistakable confidence of a manifesto, a text that seeks not merely to describe a transformation in finance but to accelerate it. From
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by Eric Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara confronts readers with a world of moral ambiguity, social collapse, and personal despair, set against the backdrop of Algeria at the precipice of
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by Luxman Roger Seifert’s Solidarity with Strings is an ambitious and uncompromising intervention into the historiography of British labour and its entanglements with colonial struggles in the Caribbean. At once a work
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Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes’s Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy presents itself as a work of strategic diagnosis, yet it is as
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The story begins with a promise of opportunity and ends in abandonment thousands of miles from home. In September 1969, a group of young Palestinian men from Gaza boarded a plane believing
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As the World Trade Organization prepares to convene its 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from 26 to 29 March, newly released data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and
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