Sri Lanka’s nationwide electricity failure on the 17th began with the sudden loss of 187 megawatts of power from the first generating unit of the Lakvijaya coal-fired power station in Norochcholai, according
A global liquefied natural gas boom that was expected to deliver a long era of cheap and abundant energy is now being upended by the ongoing Middle East conflict, with markets thrown
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Sri Lanka’s political landscape was dramatically reshaped in 2024, when a wave of public anger born out of economic collapse propelled President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his National People’s Power (NPP) coalition
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Sri Lanka is facing a new and potentially devastating crisis along its southern coastline after the sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in early March 2026, an event that has sparked
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On Sunday, 12 April 2026, Peru held presidential and parliamentary elections for the 2026–2031 term. The deepening political crisis in which Peru has been mired since 2017, the social and economic crisis—recently
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On 20 January 2026, the UK government formally approved plans for a new Chinese mega-embassy at Royal Mint Court in the City of London, ending months of intense political debate, security reviews,
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Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
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India’s reputation as the “pharmacy of the world” is facing a growing crisis, not from counterfeit medicines as commonly feared, but from a far more insidious threat: substandard drugs. As highlighted in
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In a small village in Haryana, a mother’s grief has become a stark symbol of a much larger national crisis. “My son wanted to become a wrestler. How does a liver collapse
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Sri Lankan authorities have arrested another group of Chinese nationals suspected of engaging in cyber-related financial crimes, intensifying concerns about a growing network of foreign cyber criminals operating within the country. The
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Former Member of Parliament Thurairasa Ravikaran has accused the government of pursuing a controversial agenda in Northern Sri Lanka, alleging attempts to seize land belonging to Tamil communities and impose a systematic
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Goldman Sachs suffered significant setbacks in its fixed-income trading business after being caught off guard by the market turmoil triggered by the Iran war, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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The United States has moved to the verge of becoming a net crude oil exporter for the first time since World War Two after a sharp surge in shipments fueled by global
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Iranian leaders are presenting the recent cease-fire with the United States and Israel as evidence of resilience in the face of overwhelming military pressure. But beneath that narrative of survival lies a
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The fragile architecture of the transatlantic alliance is showing new cracks as U.S. President Donald Trump’s disputes with European leaders deepen, casting even his former allies into political isolation. Nowhere is this
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The European Union is preparing a sweeping set of emergency measures that could fundamentally reshape how Europeans travel and consume energy, as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East send shockwaves through global
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