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
India has moved a step closer to introducing low-denomination polymer banknotes after Indian and foreign companies submitted bids to supply polymer substrate sheets containing built-in security features. The bids were submitted in
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Representatives from eastern and western Libya have signed a UN-sponsored agreement committing the country’s rival sides to holding presidential and legislative elections within a maximum of two years, in a new attempt
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China has completed a high-resolution mapping of the seabed in its claimed waters, including the South China Sea, after more than two decades of work, according to scientists involved in the project.
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As relations between US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have become increasingly strained, America’s ambassador to Italy has embarked on a very different form of diplomacy: a 383-foot
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Meta has finally fallen over the legal precipice towards which it had been edging for years. This week’s agreement with 52 US attorneys general, under which they will withdraw their lawsuit accusing
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More than 3.6 million people pass through room number 12 of Madrid’s Prado Museum each year to admire Diego Velázquez’s La familia de Felipe IV, better known since the 19th century as
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The Pentagon is facing a striking dual pressure: an increasingly political battle over who speaks for the US military, and growing concern among senior commanders about the resources being consumed by the
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The next stage of the technological transformation may not be about making machines more intelligent, but about making them appear more human. From humanoid robots with increasingly realistic faces and movements to
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The relationship between the United States and Taiwan has “never been stronger”, the top American diplomat in Taipei said on Monday, highlighting Taiwan’s growing role in US high-tech manufacturing and investment. Although
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Russia views growing NATO activity in the Arctic as a direct threat to its security, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, as alliance members increase their military presence in the region
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US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s energy hub of Kharg Island was being “blown to smithereens”, after US forces struck two rocket launchers on another Iranian island in the
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China’s three biggest state-owned airlines have reported first-half losses for the seventh consecutive year, hit by sharply higher jet fuel prices and a weaker-than-expected summer travel season. Air China, China Eastern Airlines
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Nicolás Maduro has released the first known images of himself from inside a New York prison, eight months after he was detained by US forces and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center
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The poster still hangs outside the Migrolino kiosk at the railway station, as if the event were about to begin. Beside it stand heavily armed members of the cantonal police, an unmistakable
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For Adam Lee Heimerman, an alleged vandal, the reaction to his arrest has been extraordinary. After the 37-year-old congressional candidate from Lenoir City, Tennessee, was arrested at the end of July, internet
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