The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
In every civilized democracy, the judiciary stands as the supreme sanctuary of impartiality — a sacred institution where justice must remain blind to political identity, ideology, and power. Once citizens begin to
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused Ecuador on Tuesday of becoming the world’s largest cocaine exporter, alleging that massive shipments of narcotics produced in both Colombia and Peru are now flowing through Ecuadorian
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Last March, China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, proposed a China–India–Sri Lanka trilateral cooperation framework in Sri Lanka. He stated that such cooperation would be important for the region’s progress. He
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The chief executive of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karp, has claimed he is on a Kremlin hitlist because of his company’s support for Ukraine’s military operations, marking a striking escalation in the controversy
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Washington offered $100 million in humanitarian aid to the island, describing the allegation as a
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A political and diplomatic storm has erupted between the United States and Mexico after reports claimed the Central Intelligence Agency facilitated the assassination of a mid-level Sinaloa Cartel operative in Mexico through
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The long-awaited summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump is set to unfold in Beijing this week amid mounting geopolitical instability, deepening economic rivalry and growing fears that relations between the world’s
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Spain’s handling of the HV Hondius cruise ship crisis has ignited both international praise and fierce domestic political backlash after the vessel carrying passengers exposed to a hantavirus outbreak was allowed to
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Sri Lanka celebrates, next week, the eradication of the bloodthirsty separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a conventional threat to the survival of this nation, at least in our hearts,
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Japan’s three largest banks are set to gain access to Claude Mythos, the powerful artificial intelligence model developed by U.S. startup Anthropic, in a move that could significantly reshape the cybersecurity landscape
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Forty years after the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, which provided for the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to assist Sri Lanka in dealing with its twin insurgencies — JVP and LTTE — and
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Eva Baltasar receives visitors in her home in Cardedeu, a quiet town on the edge of the Barcelona metropolitan area where city noise slowly dissolves into forest. The writer, born in Barcelona
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To speak of the Strait of Hormuz today is already to enter a language of reduction. In policy briefings and military analyses, it appears as a “chokepoint,” a narrow passage through which
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More than five decades after Sri Lanka’s 1971 insurrection shook the island nation, new testimonies from surviving participants, witnesses, and former insurgent leaders are reshaping understanding of how the rebellion unfolded —
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Austria has accused U.S. military aircraft linked to elite American special operations forces of entering its airspace without authorization on two consecutive days, triggering emergency fighter jet scrambles and raising fresh questions
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