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
China’s central bank continued to add to its gold reserves in January, extending its buying streak to a fifteenth consecutive month, according to data released by the People’s Bank of China, underscoring
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Bangladesh’s leading prime ministerial contender, Tarique Rahman, has rejected an offer to form a post-election unity government with his main rival, saying his party expects to secure a clear mandate when the
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Russian schoolchildren are being taught that Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, behaved like a dangerous radical whose actions mirror those of criminals and terrorists, according to a
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President Donald Trump has demanded that two of the United States’ most prominent transport hubs be renamed in his honor before he agrees to release $16 billion in frozen federal funding for
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Chinese President Xi Jinping pressed President Donald Trump to curb US arms sales to Taiwan during a phone call this week, underscoring the island’s central role in strained US-China relations and highlighting
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The United States and India have unveiled a far-reaching framework for an Interim Trade Agreement that both sides describe as a historic milestone, one that could recalibrate global trade flows and anchor
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Sri Lanka is taking steps to seek compensation from countries that once occupied the island for antiquities looted and for the lives and property lost during the colonial period, Foreign Affairs Minister
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Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe has said the country’s key economic objective is to maintain inflation without allowing it to rise above 5 percent, as the island nation seeks
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An estimated one in seven people may be living with a mental illness, according to World Health Organization assessments, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Dr. Dhammika Alahapperuma said yesterday
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India’s central bank has unveiled a set of measures aimed at boosting credit flow to small businesses and the real estate sector, signalling a renewed push to deepen access to formal financing
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Intel and AMD have warned Chinese customers of mounting shortages in server central processing units, underscoring how the global race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is now straining even traditional computing components.
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The World Economic Forum has launched an independent investigation into its chief executive, Borge Brende, to clarify the nature of his past interactions with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in a move
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A U.S. jury has ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million in damages after finding the company liable for the sexual assault of a teenage passenger by one of its drivers, a verdict
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Bitcoin slid to its weakest level in more than a year on Friday, briefly testing the critical $60,000 mark as a deepening global selloff in technology stocks triggered a broad retreat from
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Amazon has signalled that it will push ahead with one of the largest investment programmes in corporate history, forecasting capital expenditure of about $200 billion in 2026, largely driven by artificial intelligence,
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