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
For more than two decades, Heilongjiang Agriculture never reported a first-half loss as a public company. That record is ending this year after Chinese tax authorities demanded back payments linked to tax
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The United States is preparing to widen its sanctions campaign against Iran, targeting not only Tehran but the commercial networks that have allowed Iranian oil to keep reaching international markets despite years
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On New Year’s Eve 1989, as the Berlin Wall had fallen and reunification was becoming imaginable, photographer Maurice Weiß of the Ostkreuz agency captured a moment of extraordinary optimism at the Brandenburg
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Five-year-old Hind Rajab Hamada was killed in Gaza on 29 January 2024 after her family fled attacks by the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip. Her uncle, his wife, their four
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Around 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition, with the condition threatening the lives of one million of them, according to the UN children’s agency UNICEF. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF’s
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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, have formally dissolved as an independent military force and completed their integration into Syria’s state institutions, marking a major change for one of the country’s
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For many parents, the first months with a newborn are among the happiest and most important periods of their lives. For Manuel*, they became a nightmare. In his mid-30s, living with his
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The United States has temporarily paused visa applications from foreign nationals worldwide as its embassies and consulates prepare for new screening procedures designed to identify applicants who could potentially place a burden
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President Donald Trump’s decision to order the Department of Defense to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea has unsettled one of Washington’s most important alliances in Asia, while his renewed engagement
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo U.S. Ambassador Eric Meyer has formally begun his tenure in Sri Lanka, pledging to strengthen ties with Colombo, expand economic opportunities and deepen security cooperation as Washington
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by Durga Velayudham President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has extended the detention of former State Intelligence Service chief Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay for another 90 days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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What if the greatest political danger of artificial intelligence is not that machines become more powerful than humans, but that humans become increasingly unwilling to share the wealth those machines create? That
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For President Vladimir Putin, the war in Ukraine has reached a difficult juncture. Russia continues to present itself as prepared to confront the West, while its military campaign faces a more immediate
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Forty-five years ago, Mel Brooks imagined a comic future in which ultra-Orthodox Jewish astronauts protected the Jewish people from gentiles. At the end of his 1981 film History of the World, Part
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When Xi Jinping began his first term as China’s president, Beijing repeatedly insisted that its sweeping anti-corruption campaign was not “just a gust of wind”. The warning reflected an early concern that
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