India’s government has become a central focus of a bitter struggle over the future of Tata, the country’s largest conglomerate, as rival camps lobby senior officials over the leadership of its main
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, leader of Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, said Thursday that years of war and foreign intervention against Yemen were driven by strategic and economic ambitions rather than security concerns. Speaking in
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For two decades, the first instinct of anyone experiencing new medical symptoms was to “Google it,” a practice so widespread it earned the nickname “Dr. Google.” But that era is rapidly fading
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Public health authorities in Guinea-Bissau announced the suspension of a controversial US-funded hepatitis B vaccine study, intensifying a broader debate over control and oversight of clinical research conducted in Africa. During a
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Nearly two years after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that AI would replace knowledge work, the transformation has been surprisingly slow. Foundation models have made enormous strides in reasoning, planning, and research,
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Defense technology firm Anduril revealed plans Thursday to expand its Southern California footprint with a major new campus in Long Beach, the coastal city where founder Palmer Luckey grew up. The company
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis expressed surprise at OpenAI’s decision to introduce ads into its AI chatbot, suggesting the move may be premature and could damage user trust. Speaking to Axios at
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The world’s most dangerous conflict equations are increasingly being drawn not between nuclear equals, but between nuclear-armed states and those without the bomb. Already, two such wars are ongoing: Russia versus Ukraine
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Global ocean temperatures climbed to some of the highest levels ever recorded in 2025, underscoring the relentless accumulation of heat within the Earth’s climate system and intensifying alarm among scientists. According to
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Ageing and shrinking populations are no longer distant projections but a defining reality for a growing share of the world. Governments across continents are grappling with the twin demographic pressures of fewer
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Sri Lanka’s government has reportedly decided to appoint M.R.K. Lenagala, the country’s Ambassador to Austria, as the new Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, signaling a significant leadership reshuffle within the
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Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have reached an agreement on the appointment of three civil society representatives to the Constitutional Council, a key constitutional body responsible for
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Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has reassigned financial control of the National Audit Office (NAO) to the Treasury Secretary. The decision comes amid a prolonged leadership vacuum in the Auditor General’s
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OpenAI has reorganized its leadership and appointed a familiar executive to lead its push into the enterprise market, signaling a renewed urgency to regain ground against rivals that are steadily eating into
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Elon Musk is one of the most polarising and influential figures of our time, a man whose name has become synonymous with audacious ambition, relentless engineering, and a vision of humanity that
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George Friedman is widely recognised as one of the most influential geopolitical analysts of the modern era. As the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, a forecasting organisation devoted to anticipating major
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