Germany’s foreign intelligence chief, Martin Jäger, has warned that Russia is waging a “shadow war” against Germany, describing a confrontation that he says has moved beyond conventional military and legal categories. His
By the time Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC, aged 32, he had accumulated more wealth than any person before him and created an empire larger than any known
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Lieutenant General Joel Vowell, Deputy Commanding General of US Army Pacific, joined Sri Lankan defence and security representatives and diplomats from five countries at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Jawatta, Colombo,
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A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of US$916,537 held at the state-owned Bank of Ceylon and its return to Taiwan’s Far Eastern International Bank, the bank from which
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The next decade could see an estimated $8 trillion surge in additional defence spending by the Group of Seven, according to former US Navy Admiral James Stavridis, creating a vast new source
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Gonzalo Suárez is being presented anew as a pioneering figure in Spanish literature and cinema, with Javier Cercas arguing that the writer and filmmaker was the country’s first truly postmodern author. The
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has urged Americans to vote against allies of US President Donald Trump in Congress as American forces prepared to withdraw from their remaining bases in Iraq on
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Political analyst and journalist Kusal Perera has accused President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s regime of presiding over corruption worth more in two years than the total value he attributes to nine years of
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Sri Lanka has recorded 38 shootings connected to organised crime so far this year, with the attacks claiming 25 lives and injuring 15 people, according to figures cited in the latest reporting
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China has emerged as the leading centre for clinical development and testing of a new generation of CAR-T-cell therapies that could eventually be used against cancer and autoimmune diseases, according to an
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Swiss private bank Julius Baer committed serious violations of supervisory requirements covering risk management and anti-money-laundering controls, Switzerland’s financial regulator FINMA said on Tuesday after concluding an investigation into the bank. The
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China has called for the normalisation of relations with Japan while demanding that Tokyo correct Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan, in the first official meeting between a Japanese politician and
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US voters will decide control of Congress and 36 state governorships on November 3, in elections that will determine the balance of power for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s
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SriLankan Airlines improved its underlying operating performance in 2024/25, but engine shortages, 487 flight cancellations, falling passenger revenue and LKR 31.6 billion in finance costs pushed the Group into a LKR 2.74
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Two teenagers were killed in a shooting in the Chulavista neighbourhood of Cuernavaca on Saturday night, according to the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM), which said the victims were
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Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned that Chinese espionage activities could target German research institutions involved in cooperation with Chinese universities, citing insufficient awareness of security risks within parts of the research
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