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France’s National Assembly has approved a contentious bill that would establish a legal presumption of self-defence for police officers and gendarmes who use their service weapons, advancing legislation that has ignited fierce
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Gurpreet Singh aka Goldy Rajpura aka Goldy Dhillon, a foreign-based gangster and close associate of Canada-based gangster and designated terrorist Satinderjit Singh aka Goldy Brar, was arrested in Madrid, Spain, on July 3, 2026, by Spanish authorities acting
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Stand in a Chinese metropolis like Beijing, and the visual contrast is immediate. Ancient cultural relics sit alongside hyper-modern skyscrapers, compressing centuries into a single frame. But step away from the tourist
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Editorial Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara has publicly accepted responsibility for the Negombo Prison tragedy. That statement cannot be treated as a symbolic gesture made during a moment of grief. In a country
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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Independence Day address has emerged as a focal point in the United States’ increasingly polarized political landscape, drawing sharp reactions from across the ideological spectrum and prompting
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Delhi’s attempt to play the Shia card to moderate the Iranian disquiet over our ‘forever honeymoon’ with the Israel-UAE-Bahrain axis failed to impress Tehran. It was a clumsy attempt but was, arguably,
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Six years after Israel criminalized the purchase of prostitution services, a State Comptroller report has found that enforcement remains limited, with police action concentrated in a small number of districts and government
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The gunshots and screams that echoed from Negombo prison in July 2026 marked a moment of profound alarm for the country’s correctional system. What unfolded inside the
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Anthropic has announced that its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude, has developed an internal conceptual workspace that researchers say resembles aspects of human thought, describing the feature as an emergent capability that
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United Nations human rights experts have expressed grave concern over the sentencing of prominent Baloch human rights defender Dr. Mahrang Baloch to two terms of life imprisonment by an Anti-Terrorism Court in
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When Mark Carney became Canada’s prime minister, his rise to power was driven by a political backlash against US President Donald Trump’s repeated suggestion that Canada could become the 51st American state.
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Chinese authorities have discussed possible controls on the global availability of the country’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, with officials considering measures that could limit overseas access to future AI models and
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