The US aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush arrived at Thailand’s resort island of Phuket on Sunday with about 4,800 personnel aboard, beginning a five-day rest-and-recreation visit after six months supporting US operations
Canada, a rich and underpopulated country with huge land space and considerable mineral deposits, has adopted a liberal migrant policy for the last several years. It is debatable whether such an approach
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It has been a year of fire, raining steel, smoke, bloodshed, and ruination, like nothing since Adolf Hitler’s stormtroopers blitzkrieged their way through Europe in 1940. Likewise, Vladimir Putin’s invading troops have
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In the wake of the mass shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay in California, a growing number of Asian Americans are buying, or considering buying, guns for protection, reported CNN
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Russia is suspending its participation in rather than withdrawing from the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday. NATO demanded in
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For a Sri Lanka politician, for that matter any politician, what matters most is outcomes and delivery rather than process and ideology. But, to be successful, process must be married with energy,
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On February 10, 2023, two Army personnel were killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in the Kohlu area (Kohlu District) of Balochistan. Based on credible intelligence, a sanitisation operation was
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In January 2023, after five police officers killed Tyre Nichols, President Joe Biden quickly issued a statement calling on protesters to stay nonviolent. “As Americans grieve, the Department of Justice conducts its investigation, and state
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“It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget … there is evil everywhere under the sun.” The stinging famous line written by “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie
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Sweden has discarded nearly 8.5 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19, local media reported on Sunday.The discarded doses equal to about 20 percent of vaccine doses Sweden has procured, according to Swedish
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It is now more than three years , since Sterlite Copper in Tuticorin was forcibly shut down in 2018 by Tamil Nadu government, in the wake of the violent agitation by a
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On 2 February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they agreed to expand the US military presence in the
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One of the characteristics of a superpower in decline is that its economy becomes deeply dependent on other countries. For the Romans, it was resources stolen from their far-reaching empire. For the
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Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that “Russians and Ukrainians are one people.” A major power showcasing an angel’s face with a devil’s mind has poisoned one’s ear unabatedly and thus already dashed
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The discovery of a Chinese satellite floating over Montana has created lots more heat than light. Hourly news reports make it sound like a replay of Pearl Harbor. It’s a bird, it’s
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Nearly a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in President Joe Biden’s own words, “Armageddon.” Alongside the
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