Sri Lanka’s nationwide electricity failure on the 17th began with the sudden loss of 187 megawatts of power from the first generating unit of the Lakvijaya coal-fired power station in Norochcholai, according
by Durga He keeps his simplicity—but even simplicity, when steeped in the rituals of modern politics, becomes charged with symbolism. Before the engines hummed and the skies opened to carry him to
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In an interview with The Times UK, former CIA chief of European operations Ralph Goff has accused the U.S. of deliberately holding back crucial military support from Ukraine in order to avoid
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The United States would defeat China in a military conflict over Taiwan if war broke out today, according to the top US commander in the Indo-Pacific. However, he warned that America’s strategic
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An uneasy peace clings to the ancient town of Maaloula, Syria — a community once emblematic of interfaith harmony but now haunted by the scars of a civil war that saw neighbour
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A newly discovered recording of a dying Nazi official could help answer one of the most debated questions about the Holocaust: Did Adolf Hitler personally give the order to kill Europe’s Jews?
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In a groundbreaking development reported by Nature, scientists have created a broad-spectrum antivenom using antibodies derived from a man who has survived hundreds of venomous snake bites. The new treatment, which also
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Artificial intelligence has taken a bold step into astrobiology with the development of a new agentic AI system, “AstroAgents,” designed to autonomously conduct scientific research into the origins of life in the
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Opec+ has stunned the oil market by announcing a second consecutive monthly increase in production, this time by 411,000 barrels per day (b/d) for June, even as oil prices continue to slide
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A growing number of Swiss family offices — private entities that manage wealth for the ultra-rich — are relocating or expanding to Dubai, driven by tightening regulations and political uncertainty in Switzerland,
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The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is seeking to compel Google’s parent company, Alphabet, to divest critical components of its digital advertising empire, in a bid to dismantle what a federal judge
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David Horowitz, a once-radical leftist who became one of the fiercest voices on the American Right and a powerful influence on the Trump movement, has died at the age of 86. His
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President Donald Trump’s abrupt dismissal of National Security Adviser Michael Waltz capped a months-long erosion of trust inside the West Wing, fueled by policy disagreements and culminating in a controversial use of
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The Trump administration is moving ahead with sweeping reductions to the U.S. intelligence workforce, including the elimination of approximately 1,200 positions at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in a move that has
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China’s military has framed its intensifying anti-corruption campaign as a vital step in preparing for future conflicts, drawing direct parallels with historic “political rectification” campaigns that preceded major wars in the country’s
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As the Halloween season approaches, U.S. retailers and consumers are bracing for frightening price hikes on festive goods, driven by the Trump administration’s sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” on Chinese imports. Nearly 90 percent
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