At least 280,000 people are missing in the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to the list maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The figure includes both Ukrainians
Raffaele Imperiale, the Italian drug lord known as “The Uncle,” has offered unprecedented insight into the operations of a global cocaine syndicate and his personal extravagances, according to reporting by Times UK.
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The surge of artificial intelligence has transformed the data center industry into a goldmine for executives, founders, and investors, Bloomberg reports. Once a quiet corner of the tech world, data centers—facilities that
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by Satchi When she was arrested by the Dutch, betrayed by some of her own people, Maria Sembatta, the Vanni chieftainess, reportedly looked at her captors with unbroken defiance and said, “I am
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by Luxman Aravind President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s hush-hush address to Parliament, delivered after his subordinates literally lost their footing in the chaos of the Trincomalee debacle, revealed a leader floundering behind closed doors while pretending to command the
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The newly released Anthropic investigation reveals that a state-sponsored threat group has carried out the first largely autonomous cyber-espionage campaign, using an AI system to execute nearly all stages of the attack
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Zohran Mamdani, who describes himself as a “democratic socialist”, has won the New York City mayoral elections. He is a vocal critic of billionaires, ran on a plank to make the city
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On November 18, 2025, an official press release announced, Today morning, between 6.30 am and 7.00 am IST, an exchange of fire (EOF) occurred between Maoists and the police party in the
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In its first judgment with respect to the July uprising of 2024, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) on November 17, 2025, sentenced deposed Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina to death, in absentia. She was
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Google has unveiled Dhivaru, a major new Trans-Indian Ocean subsea cable system designed to connect the Maldives, Christmas Island, and Oman—marking one of the company’s most consequential
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor In the midst of one of Europe’s most brutal conflicts, Ukraine is confronting a crisis that could shake the foundations of its leadership. Reporting by the Financial
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor A few years ago, a delegation of senior U.S. defence officials arrived in Sri Lanka with a request that was as curious as it was disquieting. “We
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A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier CRISPR (Clustered
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In early November, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the ‘horrifying crisis in Sudan, which is spiralling out of control’. He urged the warring parties to ‘bring an end to this nightmare of
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Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s 2026 budget, presented to Parliament on November 7, marks a further escalation of the assault on the living conditions of workers and the poor, while granting
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Ron Dermer has tendered his resignation as Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, and in doing so, he declared that his mission is complete. But what, exactly, was
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