by Our Correspondent in Colombo In an age where diplomacy is as much about optics as it is about policy, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has taken ‘attachment’ to a
by Our Economic Affairs Editor On the eve of his final moments in office, President Joe Biden implemented a sweeping ban on oil and gas drilling in over 625 million acres of
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The “deep state”, never part of the Founding Fathers’ design, has turned US democracy into fiction, former US assistant treasury secretary and renowned economist Dr Paul Craig Roberts says. What does he
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Donald Trump’s return to the White House promises a turbulent first 100 days as president, facing daunting challenges such as mass deportations, economic reform, and a high-stakes relationship with Elon Musk. According
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In 2023, foreign leaders showered President Joe Biden and his family with an array of lavish gifts, according to the State Department’s annual report. The gifts, valued in the tens of thousands
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Sir Niall Ferguson, the Scottish historian and prominent academic, has made a surprising pivot in his view of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Once a staunch critic who branded Trump a “demagogue
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The late Jimmy Carter was an exemplary man. His honesty, modesty and good works set the mark for what American presidents should be like. He was the quintessential Christian gentlemen and a fine naval
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Inside the shabby trailer where Shamsud-Din Jabbar plotted his deadly attack on New Orleans, an open Quran sat on a reading stand. The final lines on the page, describing the promise of
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Tesla China announced on Friday that its electric vehicle (EV) sales in the Chinese mainland hit a record high of 657,000 units in 2024, up 8.8 percent year on year. Tesla also
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In a shocking twist to the Cybertruck bombing outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, police revealed that the suspect, Matthew Livelsberger, a former U.S. Army veteran, was already dead from a gunshot
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Twin violent incidents rocked the US on New Year’s Day, with an ex-US Army vet plowing a pickup into a crowd in New Orleans and going down guns blazing in a firefight
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