Generative artificial intelligence has become a practical tool in terrorist and violent extremist activities, supporting attack planning, weapons acquisition, target selection and the preparation of ideological material, according to a new analysis
Sri Lanka is not Myanmar, but the Colombo monks’ protest raises an uncomfortable question about how far the state might go to enforce its authority against Buddhist clergy. As Ranil Wickremesinghe invokes
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Across Europe, young people are increasingly taking to the streets to demand change, confronting governments over everything from unaffordable housing and underfunded education to corruption, economic insecurity and a perceived lack of
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Former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has called for stronger cooperation among Theravada Buddhist nations, declaring Anuradhapura a sacred centre for Buddhists across Asia. Highlighting centuries of religious exchange between Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, danced to nationalist pop music beneath a computer-generated Israeli flag as he addressed a cheering crowd in Tel Aviv, celebrating his record in office and promising
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A nationwide analysis of 149 local authority areas reveals stark disparities in education, safety, mental health care and public services, with Middlesbrough ranked the hardest place to grow up.
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Ricky Handschumacher’s mother did not know her son was a hacker until the police came looking for him. She had worked as a nurse inside a Florida jail, where officers began asking
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Peter Thiel occupies an unusual position in the modern technology industry. A billionaire entrepreneur who helped establish PayPal, financed Facebook in its infancy and founded the data analytics company Palantir, he has
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Thousands of people demonstrated across Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Albania over the weekend, protesting against rising living costs, education expenses and government policies, as confrontations with police turned violent in several cities.
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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Saturday in demonstrations that brought together previously separate protest movements, as anger over wages, education, living costs, pensions and climate
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The discovery of approximately 2,000 classified or potentially sensitive documents belonging to Germany’s foreign intelligence service has placed former intelligence chief August Hanning at the centre of a national security crisis. Investigators
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Russia and China are providing Iran with military technology, intelligence and other forms of assistance that could increase the costs of the war for the United States, as both powers seek to
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Germany’s two-tier health insurance system is facing renewed scrutiny over unequal access to medical treatment, as evidence of longer waiting times for publicly insured patients exposes a division that many Germans regard
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Nato’s senior military commanders say the alliance possesses overwhelming conventional military superiority over Russia and is developing detailed plans to defeat any attack on its territory, as Russian sabotage, drone incursions and
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Japan is preparing a major reassessment of its national security policy, with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expected to publish revised versions of the country’s three central security documents by the end of
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Yemen’s Houthi movement has demonstrated its growing ability to strike targets deep inside Saudi Arabia, attacking Riyadh’s international airport and hitting the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, in
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