Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
Sri Lanka is moving to establish a Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) to handle criminal cases independently, Minister of Justice Harshana Nanayakkara confirmed. The new entity will operate alongside the Attorney General’s
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Humans and elephants have coexisted in Sri Lanka for thousands of years, yet today about 70% of elephant habitats overlap with human settlements, creating persistent conflict. Farmers cultivating crops in elephant-populated areas
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Sri Lanka’s police service is grappling with a severe personnel crisis, with 40,613 vacant positions hampering operations across several departments, notably the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The total sanctioned strength of the
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Treasury bill yields in Sri Lanka have fallen sharply across all maturities for the fifth consecutive week, with three-month bills dipping below the central bank’s Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) of 7.75%, reflecting
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor “We need today to stop asking the victims to do more because the victims, the Palestinian victims, have offered and have done everything required by them in
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Paramount Skydance’s audacious $108 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has cleared a major antitrust hurdle in the United States, marking a pivotal moment in the escalating clash with Netflix.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been thrust into the spotlight after reports surfaced of production outages allegedly linked to its AI coding tools. According to the Financial Times, the most notable incident
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Four years before Vladimir Putin’s forces crossed into Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Western intelligence agencies were quietly but comprehensively tracking what would become one of the most consequential breaches of European
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Mike Huckabee, the United States ambassador to Israel and former Arkansas governor, told podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel would have a biblical right to occupy the entire Middle East, or at least
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Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate behind Bild, Politico, and Business Insider, has thrown its weight behind a £500 million bid for the Telegraph Media Group, forming a consortium led by Manchester-born
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A former Google hardware engineer has been indicted on six theft-related charges for allegedly stealing trade secrets connected to the company’s Pixel phones, in a case that underscores growing security threats in
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The tech sector in 2026 is being defined by a stark divide: semiconductor stocks tied to AI data centers are soaring, while software and information services companies are facing unprecedented losses. The
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OpenAI is preparing for an ambitious expansion, targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spending through 2030, according to a source familiar with the matter. The move comes as the ChatGPT creator
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Cubans are increasingly turning to solar energy on homes, shops, and even vehicles to cope with prolonged blackouts caused by severe fuel shortages. U.S. sanctions and a long-running economic crisis have left
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Italian authorities have intercepted more than 1,000 tons of illegal textile waste as part of JCO Demeter XI, an international operation led by the World Customs Organization (WCO). Out of a total
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