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China’s growing industrial strength is forcing Washington to confront realities that tariffs and political rhetoric cannot erase. Its dominance in shipbuilding, batteries, electric vehicles, solar manufacturing and critical minerals gives Beijing substantial
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, has become one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in promoting rapid artificial-intelligence development, placing the head of the world’s most valuable company at the centre of a growing dispute over how the technology
Italy’s Senate has approved legislation paving the way for the country to return to nuclear power, nearly four decades after it abandoned the energy
Australia is investigating an incident in which an autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI gained access to a government-owned database and retrieved both
Tamil Nadu’s politics has long been defined by the dominance of two powerful Dravidian parties, leaving little space for alternative forces to emerge. Since 1967, when the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam displaced the
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The question of how many Indians are truly poor has resurfaced with a jolt: is it closer to 75 million or 342 million? The answer is not trivial—it represents a staggering difference
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A baby monkey abandoned by his mother and ignored by his troop at a zoo in Japan is finally beginning to be accepted by other macaques after weeks of concern from zookeepers
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Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating a major dispute between the company and the U.S.
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Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams appeared at London’s High Court on Monday in a civil lawsuit that aims to hold him liable for Irish Republican Army bombings carried out in Britain,
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Iran’s prosecutor general’s office has warned that Iranians living abroad who express support for the United States and Israel could face confiscation of their property and other legal penalties, according to a
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Sri Lanka has announced a nationwide increase in fuel prices, with the revision coming into effect from midnight on March 9. The adjustment was confirmed by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (Ceypetco), the
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For many years Mojtaba Khamenei was a name that circulated mainly inside Iran’s political and security circles rather than in public debate. He rarely appeared on television, did not campaign for political
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Colombo is grappling with a potential energy crisis after the Indian company Trident Chamfer, contracted to supply 25 coal ships for power generation in 2026, has delivered only 13 vessels so far,
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by Our Correspondent in Doha Six of the United States’ leading Senate Democrats on Monday condemned an apparent U.S. military strike on a girls’ school in Minab, a southern province of Iran,
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Sri Lanka is witnessing renewed tensions over land rights in the northern district of Mullaitivu, where Tamil communities allege that their private lands are being illegally seized for salt pan construction. Durairasa
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Global arms transfers reached their highest growth rate since 2011–15, largely driven by soaring demand in Europe. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Europe accounted for 33 percent of
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Iran has been under sustained military pressure from the United States and Israel for almost a week, raising fears of a direct strike. Professor K.T. Ganeshalingam, Head of the Department of Political
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The Iranian naval vessel IRIS Booshehr remained near Colombo yesterday after the process of transferring the ship to the Trincomalee Naval Base had not begun as planned, according to senior naval officials.
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A global shortage of memory chips fueled by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence is driving up the cost of electronics worldwide, according to an analysis by Bloomberg. The demand for chips
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