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A new report by Amnesty International has accused the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement (M23) of committing war crimes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including unlawful killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and
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The Iranian regime is being accused of subcontracting European criminal networks, including the notorious Dutch “Mocro mafia,” to carry out targeted assassinations on European soil, according to an investigative report by The
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The era of Japanese children being named Pikachu, Pudding, or even Prince may be drawing to a close, as new regulations designed to curb eccentric naming practices take effect this week. The
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A damning new report has accused senior Cambodian politicians of supporting and profiting from a vast criminal industry that uses trafficked forced labour to run online scam centres targeting lonely individuals in
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A new survey published in Hebrew by Haaretz has sparked international alarm, revealing that significant portions of Israeli Jewish society now support policies amounting to ethnic cleansing, forced expulsions, and even genocidal
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What if justice, as we venerate it in liberal-democratic orders, is merely a sophisticated veneer for entrenched power? What if its moral sublimity is but the normative consequence of institutional inertia and
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A second mass grave site linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has been uncovered in western Mexico, again with the help of relatives of the country’s more than 120,000 missing
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In an abrupt and devastating move, Next Manufacturing Pvt Ltd, a major garment exporter in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone, shut down its operations overnight on May 19th, 2025—without any prior notice—leaving
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NDB Bank is honoured to extend its support towards a deeply humanitarian initiative led by the Sri Lanka Amarapura & Ramanya Samagi Union to aid victims affected by the recent devastating earthquake
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In the shadow of the Line of Control (LoC), where artillery duels between India and Pakistan briefly pushed South Asia to the brink of war earlier this month, the human cost of
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China has unveiled its latest generation of AI-driven surveillance technologies, explicitly designed to monitor users of encrypted messaging platforms like Telegram and detect virtual private network (VPN) activity, as part of an
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Hadi Matar, the man who brutally stabbed author Salman Rushdie during a public lecture in 2022, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted murder, following a high-profile trial that
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Myanmar’s opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), has accused the country’s military leadership of committing serious human rights violations during a period of declared ceasefire following a devastating earthquake in
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A harrowing video showing the execution of 13 security contractors at a gold mine in northern Peru has thrown global attention onto the country’s deepening crisis of illegal gold mining — a
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Graham King, the Essex-born founder of migrant-housing giant Clearsprings Ready Homes, has officially joined the ranks of Britain’s billionaires as the number of asylum seekers entering the UK—and the costs of housing
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