Sri Lanka’s nationwide electricity failure on the 17th began with the sudden loss of 187 megawatts of power from the first generating unit of the Lakvijaya coal-fired power station in Norochcholai, according
An area of 187.56 acres of land belonging to the State Cement Corporation in Kankesanthurai, Jaffna, has been formally released by the Security Forces for future civilian use, allowing the property to
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A police sergeant attached to Malwathuhiripitiya Police in Sri Lanka’s Gampaha Police Division has been suspended following an investigation into an alleged attempt to obtain a kilogramme of chicken meat in exchange
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Nigel Farage and the rise of Reform UK are becoming a significant factor in the constitutional debate across the United Kingdom, with new polling indicating that support for Scottish independence could rise
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Europe’s major rivers recorded exceptionally low flows this summer, disrupting freight transport and energy production as prolonged drought combined with repeated heatwaves. The Copernicus Climate Change Service says the average discharge of
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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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