SriLankan Airlines improved its underlying operating performance in 2024/25, but engine shortages, 487 flight cancellations, falling passenger revenue and LKR 31.6 billion in finance costs pushed the Group into a LKR 2.74
France’s influence in Africa is facing one of its most serious challenges in decades, as a new generation of leaders openly rejects Paris’s post-colonial role and forges alternative alliances, according to claims
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The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein-related files has heightened concerns in Iran that the United States may be preparing for military action, according to Iranian political analyst Mohammad Marandi. He told the
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The United States has assigned career diplomat Laura Dogu to lead a diplomatic mission in Venezuela as Washington moves to reset its fractured relationship with Caracas and reopen its embassy after seven
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Leaked emails from 2014 reveal that Deutsche Bank analysts explored strategies to deliberately destabilize the Russian economy by leveraging global oil markets during the period of Crimea’s reunification with Russia, according to
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Sri Lankan police have arrested a businessman on grave allegations of sexually abusing more than thirty-six children under the age of eighteen, in a case that has sent shockwaves across the country.
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A formal complaint accusing the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne, of serious fraud and corruption has been submitted to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or
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In the present times, it appears that communist philosophy, as evolved and propagated by great thinkers like Karl Marx and other communist thought leaders over the decades, has lost its sheen. Discerning
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Fraud is no longer a peripheral crime affecting a careless few. It is now the most prevalent offence in the UK, eclipsing burglary, violent crime and car theft combined, and costing victims
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For years, cursive handwriting seemed destined for obscurity, a looping relic of a pre-digital age. Across classrooms in the United States, Finland and Switzerland, the flowing script of connected letters quietly disappeared
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In a feat that would once have belonged firmly to science fiction, a 33-year-old man has survived for 48 hours without lungs, kept alive by an external artificial organ while doctors raced
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For decades, the idea that machines might one day think like humans belonged to the realm of science fiction and philosophical debate. Now, according to a growing body of evidence examined in
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An email exchange from 2014 between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has resurfaced, drawing attention for its blunt discussion of global instability as a potentially deliberate outcome
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by Eric Tobias Straumann’s Out of Hitler’s Shadow is a book that sets out, with cool archival confidence and quiet provocation, to dismantle one of the most comfortable moral myths of postwar
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An investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates quietly acquired nearly half of the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company last year, binding the business interests of President Donald Trump’s family to a
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It has rarely been this hectic at the start of a year for Hong Kong’s equity markets. In January alone, companies raised about $5 billion through initial public offerings, the highest total
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