Donald Trump has signed a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland that significantly expands the United States’ military role on the strategically important Arctic island, while stopping short of his earlier calls
Japan is facing mounting pressure to reduce its heavy reliance on rare earth imports from China as political tensions between Tokyo and Beijing continue to deepen. The challenge has taken on new
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A European crisis fund with more than 430 billion euros in lending capacity could be tapped to help finance defence spending across the euro zone, as the European Union races to reinforce
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A fresh political controversy has erupted over the operation of the Norochchola Coal Power Plant after Member of Parliament Ajith P. Perera disclosed alarming findings following an inspection tour of the facility.
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An investigation has been launched into a school principal in Sri Lanka’s Central Province over the premature release of Grade 10 third-term examination question papers, according to Central Provincial Director of Education
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Sri Lanka’s long-postponed Provincial Council elections remain stalled amid what the Election Commission describes as a complete lack of response from the Presidential Secretariat, despite repeated written requests to resolve the legal
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A decisive meeting of Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Council is scheduled to take place today, January 30, within the Parliamentary complex to discuss the appointment of a new Auditor General, a position that
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Sri Lanka is facing a steadily growing cancer crisis, with around 100 new patients being diagnosed every day and approximately 40 cancer-related deaths recorded daily, according to the National Cancer Control Program.
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Nearly three years after ethnic violence tore through Manipur, the death of a young Kuki-Zo woman named Grace has come to symbolise a conflict that never truly ended. Her passing on January
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On the islands dotting the Krishna river in Telangana, there are no roads, no phone networks, and no easy way out. It was in these isolated fishing camps that Erukala Raju, a
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For more than four decades, the flatlands west of Zaragoza have lived by the rhythm of car production. Now, the same territory that once welcomed General Motors as a symbol of American
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The U.S. Department of Defense is locked in a dispute with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic over safeguards that would limit how the military and intelligence agencies can deploy the company’s AI technology,
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A former Google software engineer has been convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the U.S. technology giant to benefit Chinese companies he was
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The United States and Russia are on the brink of a new nuclear arms race unless a last-minute agreement is reached before the expiration of the New START treaty on February 5,
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Israel’s space program, once among the world’s most advanced relative to its size, is falling dangerously behind just as the global space industry enters a period of rapid expansion, according to internal
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The U.S. Embassy in Colombo this week welcomed a team of engineers and medical professionals from the Montana National Guard as they worked alongside Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre and other government
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