In this lovely midsummer season, I will pay a state visit to the Republic of Tajikistan at the invitation of President Emomali Rahmon. This will be my third visit to Tajikistan. I
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In the peaceful setting of Sisi Borgaon village, Dhemaji district in Assam, unfolds the journey of a man—a tale marked by resilience, entrepreneurship, and a steadfast commitment to community welfare. Today, he
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Your Excellency, I am writing this open letter to bring to your attention a dire situation at the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL) concerning academic integrity. Specifically, I am deeply
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In his address at the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Kazakhstan on Thursday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for collective action
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In a major development for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Belarus was formally accepted as the 10th member state of the inter-governmental organization on Thursday. The latest expansion bolsters the SCO’s capacity
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The Palestinian death toll in Gaza from ongoing Israeli attacks has surpassed 38,000, the Hamas-run health authorities said on Thursday. During the past 24 hours, the Israeli army killed 58 and wounded
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The 2024 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance on Thursday issued Shanghai Declaration on Global AI Governance. The following is the full text of the declaration: Shanghai Declaration
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The polling stations in the UK closed at 9 p.m. on 4 July 2024. Contrary to my earlier prediction, the weather has been sunny and warm with no rain but with a
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It is impossible to know if Joe Biden will tough it out, hang in there as president, and run for reelection. Most pundits say if that happens –he stays in office and
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On 20 June, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemned the attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ‘in the strongest terms’. In its press statement, the UNSC wrote that
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France Heads to Second Round Showdown Between Left Alliance and Far Right The far-right National Rally, which is Marine Le Pen’s party, is in the lead after the first round of parliamentary
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Within a day of the June 2, 2024, release of a video documenting the abuse of prisoners of war by a Russian soldier in Ukraine, open-source intelligence (OSINT) researchers had identified the Russian
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The story should not be real. It was the morning of January 29, 2004. The Israeli military had already bombed substantial parts of the affluent Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City, including—in
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