Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has repeatedly delivered the same public assurance in recent weeks: Belarus will not be drawn into Russia’s war against Ukraine. The message has become a consistent feature of
More
MOST RECENT
The European Union has once again thrust one of its most contentious digital policy debates back into the spotlight after lawmakers voted to revive plans allowing technology companies to voluntarily scan certain
More
Deep in the mountains of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, close to the Iranian border, a weapons factory established nearly a decade ago has emerged as the focus of an extensive investigation linking illicit
More
Around one-fifth of the world’s oil consumption passes through the Strait of Hormuz, making it the most strategically important maritime chokepoint on the planet. For decades, its significance has rested on a
More
Islamabad has just set a new record. For the 2026-27 fiscal year, Pakistan’s defence allocation has crossed Rs 3 trillion for the first time, roughly $10.8 billion, and the single sharpest jump
More
There are figures in history who become larger after their death than they ever were in life. Burhan Muzaffar Wani is one of them. On July 8, 2016, Indian security forces killed
More
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots. ~ Peter Senge The System
More
OpenAI has introduced a new version of ChatGPT designed specifically for the workplace, marking a significant shift in how the company envisions artificial intelligence being used in everyday professional life. Rather than
More
The UN Human Rights Office has described the recent outbreak of deadly violence at a Sri Lanka jail in Negombo as “deeply alarming,” calling on authorities to establish the truth behind the
More
A growing fleet of shadowy cargo vessels operating around Taiwan has drawn renewed scrutiny after a Financial Times investigation found that many ships placed on Taipei’s maritime security blacklist have links to
More
US artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google have been supplying advanced AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Chinese technology giants that have been placed on a Pentagon blacklist, raising fresh questions in
More
Construction of the Kadawatha–Meerigama Expressway, a China-funded highway in Sri Lanka, ground to a halt in 2022 as the country’s economic crisis took hold. Work had begun under an agreement combining Chinese
More
by Our Correspondent in Colombo The deaths of prison officers and inmates during the violence at Negombo Remand Prison have taken a darker turn following postmortem findings that revealed several victims suffered
More
The political legacy of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is shaping the country’s current position between the United States and China, highlighting the challenges facing Washington’s efforts to reduce Beijing’s influence in
More
Tokyo-based agritech startup Plantx has opened a pilot facility featuring fully sealed vertical-farming systems, introducing what the company describes as the world’s first cultivation platform of its kind as Japan continues to
More