August Hanning, the former president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has been arrested as part of an investigation into suspected treasonous espionage, the disclosure of state secrets and attempted treason, placing
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has asked British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reopen discussions over the sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Islands, arguing that the Maldives should have been consulted before the
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Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia regional director and daughter of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has resigned from her position following fraud investigations by the UN agency and
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India’s two-year-old plan to fence its entire border with Myanmar has gained renewed attention after Manipur announced it aims to complete its section of the frontier by 2028, prompting former officials and
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Criminal proceedings against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei began on Wednesday in a closely watched US federal trial, bringing renewed scrutiny to allegations first made nearly eight years ago that the company stole
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When Milan Shrestha returned to the aftermath of devastating floods in northern Nepal, his family hotel in Betrawati was gone. His parents, both in their late 50s, had escaped by moving uphill,
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Taiwan is betting that drones can transform both its military preparedness and its industrial future, but the country’s ambitious plans are colliding with an uncomfortable question: can Taipei build thousands of effective
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A high-level Indian defence delegation accompanying the Indian Defence Minister on his official visit to Sri Lanka met Sri Lanka’s Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd), at the Ministry
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Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Mahishini Colonne highlighted opportunities for closer bilateral cooperation at the Ambassadors’ Conference on Healthcare Technologies and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, held on 08 September 2026 in New Delhi
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The Italian Naval Vessel ‘ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi’ arrived in Sri Lanka on 9 September 2026 on a replenishment visit, with the Sri Lanka Navy welcoming the visiting ship at the Port of
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The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government has announced the cancellation of a series of projects initiated by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which governed Tamil Nadu from 2021 to 2026. Among them
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OpenAI has claimed to have solved one of the most celebrated problems in the history of mathematics: the “existence and smoothness” problem of the Navier–Stokes equations, one of seven Millennium Problems identified
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A young researcher at Anthropic, Jacob Coxon, has resigned from the company, warning that the race to develop increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems is exposing humanity to dangers that their own creators
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The German Embassy in Colombo has sought to clarify Germany’s political situation following news of a surge for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the regional state election in Saxony-Anhalt, stressing
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor India has decided to sideline Sri Lanka from a substantive role at this year’s BRICS summit in New Delhi, scheduled for 12–13 September this weekend, according to
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by Our Special Correspondent in Colombo Long before the explosions tore through churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday 2019, an Indian police officer was following a trail of information
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