Donald Trump faces a potentially damaging electoral defeat as Americans prepare to vote in midterm elections, with economic dissatisfaction, allegations of corruption and growing opposition to his foreign policy threatening Republican control
Ukraine’s political landscape has been jolted on the eve of a critical election, as former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko faces bribery charges from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption
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Iran has unveiled a state-controlled whitelist of “Essential Sites Accessible via the National Internet,” signaling a new era of cyber fortification aimed at insulating the country from perceived foreign manipulation. The list,
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Drug addiction in Kandy, a major district in Sri Lanka’s Central Province, has risen dramatically in 2025, with authorities reporting a fivefold increase in usage compared to the previous year. Senior Deputy
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A 25-year-old computer engineer from Kandarmadam, Jaffna, has been arrested by Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for allegedly posting nude images of her ex-boyfriend on social media, authorities confirmed. The case
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Sri Lanka’s Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is witnessing an unprecedented political debate over the possible parliamentary entry of General Secretary Tilvin Silva, a move that would break a tradition dating back to
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The Trump administration has announced an indefinite pause on immigrant visa processing for nationals from 75 countries, including Brazil, Iran, Russia, and Somalia, signaling a dramatic tightening of U.S. legal immigration policies.
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According to two sources familiar with the matter, companies including Broadcom-owned VMware, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet from the United States, as well as Israel’s Check Point Software Technologies, are among those
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The year 2025 was officially the world’s third-warmest year on record, with average temperatures just 0.01 degrees Celsius cooler than 2023, according to data released Wednesday by the European Centre for Medium-Range
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For more than a century and a half, the origins of birds have been dominated by a single, iconic fossil from Germany: Archaeopteryx. Long regarded as the first bird and a textbook
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China ended 2025 with a historic trade surplus of $1.189 trillion, a figure that places the world’s largest manufacturing nation in a category usually reserved for the output of major economies. The
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A growing scandal over AI-generated sexual images on X has pushed women off the platform and drawn the attention of regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, as critics accuse the company
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A subsidiary of Israel’s largest arms manufacturer has been denied a £2 billion contract to overhaul British Army training, bringing to an end a contentious bidding process marked by allegations of rule
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The United Nations Human Rights Office has issued one of its starkest warnings yet on Sri Lanka, concluding that conflict-related sexual violence remains endemic, systematically unaddressed, and buried beneath what it describes
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A growing struggle over the world’s underwater fiberoptic cable networks is emerging as a new front in great-power rivalry, raising fears that the internet itself could be divided into competing geopolitical blocs.
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Editorial As the rial plunges to 1.1 million to the US dollar, the crisis is no longer abstract; it is catastrophic and visible. Photographs from the streets show hundreds of bodies wrapped
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