China has urged the United States to stop expanding its military capabilities in outer space, warning that the deployment of weapons in orbit could contribute to a wider global arms race. The
Mr President, This letter is neither a routine diplomatic overture nor a rhetorical exercise in grievance. It is a carefully considered appeal issued by the editorial team of the Sri Lanka Guardian,
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump held a nearly hour-long phone conversation on Thursday, covering a wide range of global issues, including the Ukraine conflict, tensions in the Middle
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The United States is intensifying its efforts to dismantle a global criminal network accused of using stolen cryptocurrency to finance North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, with a high-profile trial and new sanctions
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President Trump moved a step closer to securing his biggest legislative victory of his second term on Tuesday as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” narrowly passed the Senate following a tense 27-hour
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In a sweeping move that signals a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order dismantling most U.S. sanctions against Syria, declaring an end to the
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Sweeping cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) could result in more than 14 million additional deaths globally by 2030, reversing decades of progress in the fight against deadly diseases
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James Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, resigned on Friday following mounting pressure from the Trump administration, marking a significant escalation in the federal government’s crackdown on public universities over diversity,
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In a landmark 6–3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major legal victory to President Donald Trump, ruling that lower federal courts lack the authority to impose nationwide injunctions on presidential
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The recent US air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities — the most powerful non-nuclear strikes ever conducted by Washington — are being viewed by analysts as a powerful warning to Beijing about
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President Donald Trump authorized a stealth airstrike against Iran’s nuclear facilities just two days after publicly stating he would decide “within the next two weeks” whether to take military action. According to
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called on China to intervene diplomatically with Iran to help prevent the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran’s parliament unanimously voted in
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President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan quietly attempted to arrange high-level talks between U.S. and Iranian officials in Istanbul this week, in a last-ditch effort to prevent U.S. military
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A major diplomatic rift has emerged between the United States and Japan, as Tokyo abruptly cancelled high-level security talks in response to a fresh U.S. demand for a sharp increase in Japanese
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC The world is on edge as President Donald Trump edges closer to authorizing a direct U.S. military strike against Iran using a 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bomb —
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Residential construction in the United States plunged in May to its lowest level in five years, as homebuilders struggled to navigate a landscape marked by volatile tariffs, elevated mortgage rates, and a
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