by Our Correspondent in Fuzhou , China The future of international cooperation is increasingly being shaped not only by what countries build, trade or invest in, but also by how their
In Afghanistan today, the mere mention of the Taliban’s “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” — the so-called religious police — is enough to send women and girls trembling. Ostensibly tasked
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James Watson, the American biologist co-credited with discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, has died at the age of 97, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced Thursday. Watson spent much of his career
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The Line was conceived as a 500-metre-tall, 170km-long glass-and-steel city designed to house nine million residents along a continuous vertical wall. Central to the project was a “hidden marina” with cruise ships
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New satellite imagery has revealed activity consistent with mass graves in El-Fasher, the Sudanese city seized by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last month, according to a report released Thursday by
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States would boycott the upcoming Group of 20 summit in South Africa, claiming the host nation is guilty of “human rights abuses” against
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U.S. officials said intelligence collected in 2024 indicated that Israel’s military lawyers had warned of evidence supporting potential war crimes charges for its campaign in Gaza, operations largely reliant on American-supplied weapons,
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Turkey is preparing legislation that would enable the return of PKK guerrillas and their families from hideouts in northern Iraq, while stopping short of granting a general amnesty for past crimes, according
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) allegedly planned to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico starting late last year, according to a U.S. official who spoke to Reuters. The official said the plot
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U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told Reuters that the Army is undertaking a major expansion of its drone acquisition program, increasing purchases from roughly 50,000 drones annually today to at least one
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OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to broaden a 35% semiconductor-focused tax credit to cover AI data centers, AI server manufacturers, and electrical grid components, according to a letter dated Oct. 27
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About 20 banks, including Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, are leading the $18 billion loan for a data center campus in Doña Ana County,
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Tesla shareholders approved Musk’s $1 trillion compensation plan with 75 percent of votes cast at the company’s annual meeting on Thursday, Financial Times reported. If Musk meets the plan’s targets, it could
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The so-called “Magnificent Seven” — Nvidia, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Alphabet, and Apple — experienced their worst weekly losses since April, as investors questioned whether the AI boom and record-high valuations
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor The 2026 Budget tabled by Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives amid perhaps the most delicate balance in Sri Lanka’s post-independence economic history. Having emerged from the
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Sri Lanka’s President and Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake unveiled the 2026 national budget on Friday, outlining reforms to strengthen economic resilience and uphold the country’s $3 billion International Monetary Fund bailout.
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