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
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat to unleash an “economic D-Day” against Iran risks placing the United States on a collision course with China, Tehran’s main trading partner and the buyer of
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran had attempted to assassinate one of his two sons, but provided no details about the alleged plot or identified which son was
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China is expanding a global network of gold vaults and accelerating central bank gold purchases as Beijing seeks to strengthen the yuan’s role in international trade, according to an S&P Global Ratings
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Editorial Washington has moved from threatening an “Economic D-Day” against Iran to putting it into operation. On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast”, an expanded sanctions campaign intended
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Singapore is offering families more than €47,000 for each child under the age of 18 as part of a new package announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, in one of the city-state’s
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Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered the immediate launch of police operations to identify and deport irregular migrants, signalling a dramatic shift in the country’s approach to migration after more
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Ukraine and Britain are to expand cooperation on the military use of artificial intelligence, combining Ukraine’s battlefield experience with Britain’s technology and research capabilities in a partnership that could extend from the
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Syria has been removed from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism, marking another significant step in the Trump administration’s easing of sanctions against the country and potentially making it
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to attend next month’s BRICS summit in New Delhi with a large delegation, according to three sources, in what would be his first visit to India
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The third phase of excavation at the alleged Chemmani mass grave site in Jaffna concluded last Wednesday, 19, with another set of human remains located and ten sets fully exhumed. The discoveries
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A challenge over the proposed extension of judges’ retirement ages has intensified after the Bar Association of Sri Lanka asked Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena to consider recusing himself from hearing the
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The mother of former State Intelligence Service chief Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay has appealed to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake not to extend her son’s detention, while making clear that she does
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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States, according
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Julián Casanova has spent much of his career examining the violence that shaped modern Europe, from the Russian Revolution and anarchism to the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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In Moscow, the mood is increasingly uneasy. “I don’t understand anything. Last week everything was normal in Moscow, and suddenly there is no petrol and you have to queue for an hour
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