Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
Iranian Ambassador in Colombo Dr. Alireza Delkhosh says the Islamic Republic of Iran remains fully prepared to face US-Israeli aggression. In an interview with Shamindra Ferdinando of The Island at the Iranian Embassy, in
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The IMF staff and Sri Lankan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to conclude the combined Fifth and Sixth Reviews of Sri Lanka’s reform programme under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). If
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Television coverage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visits to the UAE, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway was dominated by optics — selfies with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the “Melody”
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The growing effort to pull Pakistan into Middle Eastern normalization politics reflects a wider strategic tension emerging across the region: the widening disconnects between externally promoted diplomatic frameworks and political realities inside
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Colombia is entering a politically charged election season in which a new force on the radical right is rapidly gaining momentum. Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer turned political outsider, has emerged
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Warnings about artificial intelligence wiping out large segments of the workforce have become a familiar feature of public debate. Layoffs at major technology firms and rapid advances in generative AI systems have
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The global race for technological supremacy is increasingly being fought through artificial intelligence, robotics, and scientific innovation. But according to a growing body of analysis emerging from China’s education and research sectors,
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The artificial-intelligence industry may be entering a new and more secretive phase, one in which the most advanced systems are deemed too dangerous for public release. That shift became dramatically visible in
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The Supreme Leader of Iran has issued a forceful political message calling for the creation of a new regional order led by Muslim-majority nations, declaring that the era of Western dominance is
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After months of stalemate and escalating tension around the Strait of Hormuz, negotiations aimed at ending the war involving Iran and restoring maritime flows through the strategic waterway appear to be gaining
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