An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team has concluded discussions with Sri Lankan authorities on the country’s seventh review under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement and the 2026 Article IV Consultation,
More than half of Germans would consider leaving the country, according to a new survey conducted by YouGov and reported by Die Welt. The poll highlights growing public dissatisfaction over immigration, political
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed new legislation aimed at promoting the domestic production of taxicabs, a move seen as part of Moscow’s broader strategy to strengthen its economy under Western sanctions.
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Editorial When a nation begins to collapse, it seldom does so with a grand flourish. The disintegration is silent, incremental, and often politely ignored—until the collapse becomes too catastrophic to conceal. In
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Oracle is set to invest approximately $40 billion in Nvidia’s cutting-edge GB200 chips to power a new state-of-the-art data center being built by OpenAI in Abilene, Texas, according to a report by
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South Africa has unveiled a proposed overhaul of its Black economic empowerment laws in an effort to enable Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Starlink, to operate in the country, according to the
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A French prosecutor on Friday called for the maximum 20-year prison sentence for former surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, who admitted to sexually abusing nearly 300 patients—most of them children—over a span of
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India and Pakistan have extended mutual airspace bans in a growing diplomatic standoff sparked by rising tensions in Kashmir and a deadly attack on Indian security forces in Pahalgam last month. The
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At its annual I/O developer conference this week, Google sent a clear message to the tech world: artificial intelligence is not just a new frontier—it is the battleground on which the company’s
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Editorial There are deaths that arrive like storms—tempestuous, obliterating, and total—and then there are those like the passing of Malini Fonseka: a slow extinguishing of a sacred lamp, dimming not into obscurity,
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A new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), titled “Sparing the Vulnerable: The Cost of New Tariff Burdens,” reveals a troubling reality: the recent wave of U.S.
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A federal judge has temporarily halted a controversial effort by the Trump administration to bar Harvard University from enrolling international students, marking a significant early victory for the institution in an escalating
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Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the U.S. government’s top consulting contractors, has announced it will cut approximately 2,500 jobs after forecasting weaker-than-expected profits, a move that sent its shares tumbling 18% in
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In the wake of Bashar al-Assad’s downfall last December, an unexpected new phenomenon has gripped the Syrian capital: the shimmer of gold fever. As reported by the Financial Times, the nightly silence
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A comprehensive new study published in the journal Cell has cast serious doubt on the theory that the Covid-19 virus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Instead, the research, led by
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Qamzova, a non-opioid, long-acting painkiller developed in China. The medication is being hailed as a potential breakthrough in the fight against the nation’s
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