The abduction and sexual abuse of Alawite women and girls in Syria have become a growing concern for human rights investigators, with a comparative assessment by the International Institute for Religious Freedom
China and African governments are strengthening law-enforcement cooperation as a rise in cross-border cybercrime and fraud draws police forces closer together. The cooperation ranges from investigations into online gambling and cybercrime operations
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For two months this summer, Iraqi investigators dug beneath the ground around Baidischi, a small town three hours north of Baghdad, searching for what they believed was the proceeds of a vast
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The new Netflix series East of Eden gives John Steinbeck’s sprawling American family saga something the celebrated 1955 film largely denied it: room for the characters who were pushed aside in Elia
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On 8 July 2026, an OpenAI AI agent named PHASEONE10841 was struggling with a task it could not solve. Isolated inside a digital “sandbox” and denied access to the internet, it was
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A key Sri Lanka-India meeting on illegal bottom trawling has been postponed at India’s request, with Colombo seeking a new date either before or after Sri Lanka’s parliamentary budget period because government
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Sri Lanka is recording a sustained increase in HIV infections even as global progress against the virus continues, placing the country among 21 nations where estimated new HIV infections rose by more
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Sri Lanka spent US$4.07 billion on fuel imports during the first eight months of 2026, a 61.6 per cent increase from the US$2.52 billion recorded during the same period last year, according
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Sri Lanka’s Government has called bids for 1,000 brand-new, automatic-transmission, four-wheel-drive diesel double-cab vehicles, in the largest of several vehicle and heavy-equipment procurements launched by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic
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Frank Strada, the head of Tennessee’s prison authority, will resign his post days after the failed execution of death-row inmate Christa Pike, Governor Bill Lee said on Saturday. Strada is expected to
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Ras Malé is not simply a US$20 billion construction project. It is an attempt to overcome the Maldives' chronic shortage of land, housing and economic diversity by creating a new metropolitan centre
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Galanagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, who was subject to an outstanding court warrant, has been arrested by police in the Thiniyawala area, according to reports. An open warrant had been issued by the
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For almost two decades, Regina Jardim has been recording the lives of Brazilian women killed by men. Her work began after her daughter, Priscila, was shot dead by her ex-partner as she
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Russia is preparing for the war in Ukraine to continue for years, with the government planning record military spending and abandoning earlier efforts to restrain defence outlays as the conflict approaches its
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China’s construction of a runway on Antelope Reef in the Paracels archipelago is well underway, with analysts estimating that the facility could be completed by the middle of 2027 and strengthen Beijing’s
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Spanish actor Ana Rujas is preparing for one of the most physically demanding roles of her career: portraying the first Spanish woman to win a world boxing championship. The series, written by
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