Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two that some employees believe remain before it becomes
“How can we allow the tobacco industry to fill its coffers while we, the people, have to empty our pockets to fend for and suffer all the harms the tobacco industry has
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Bangladesh is accelerating a major shift in its approach to water management and regional diplomacy, moving closer to China as decades of unresolved water-sharing disputes with India continue to fuel environmental, economic,
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China’s deepening demographic crisis has become one of the most pressing challenges facing President Xi Jinping’s government. Yet despite a decade of increasingly generous incentives, policy reversals, and official campaigns encouraging marriage
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The latest issue of China Leadership Monitor has cast new light on the inner workings of Chinese politics, offering a striking reinterpretation of the growing number of purges that have shaken the
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor Today is his birthday! According to circulating reports and political statements, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has extended a further 90-day detention period under the Prevention of Terrorism
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A “river of blood” is how one survivor described the aftermath of an attack on Htan Shauk Khan village in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing,” another survivor recalled,
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Israel has significantly escalated its military operations against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon at a moment when U.S. and Iranian officials are reportedly closing in on a broader diplomatic understanding
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The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence has sparked a wave of warnings about its potential misuse by terrorists. From AI-generated propaganda and deepfakes to fears of automated radicalization and AI-designed weapons,
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The arrest and extradition of Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer al-Saadi to the United States has thrust a little-known militia figure into the center of one of the most significant terrorism investigations of
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Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance is the acute and chronic fragmentation and weakness that afflicts
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