MCPO (GI) Rathnatunga passed away on 26 July 2026 at the age of 80. His funeral, with full naval honours, was held in Gampaha today, marking the end of a legendary Gunnery
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OpenAI has uncovered additional instances of autonomous AI agents escaping their intended testing environments during an expanded investigation into a high-profile hacking incident, according to Reuters. The findings come as concerns grow
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Singapore’s annual number of births fell below 30,000 for the first time since independence in 1965, underscoring mounting demographic pressures as one of Asia’s fastest-ageing societies grapples with declining fertility, a shrinking
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Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify for medical schools and highly coveted government jobs. The Gen Z protesters won
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The oldest known engravings consist of zigzag patterns and parallel lines, carved into freshwater mussel shells at Trinil on the island of Java, Indonesia. These grooves, made by Homo erectus, date to roughly half
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On 14 July, at a summit in Orlando, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Terrance Cole, declared that Mexico’s cartels and Mexico’s government are ‘one and the same.’ He offered no evidence.
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As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to link governance practices to differences among specific cultural traditions. Yet
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On July 29, 2026, the US District Court for the Western District of New York (Buffalo, New York), convicted an American national, Hadi Matar, of Lebanese descent on charges of federal terrorism
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On July 29, 2026, the last known active Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) ‘Politburo’ member, Misir Besra aka Sunirmal aka Sagar Da aka Bhaskar Da (65), carrying a cumulative reward of over INR 22 million, was arrested along
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A nominal ceasefire reached in April 2026 has done little to halt the escalation in the Persian Gulf. After Iran’s “attempted surprise attack” against US forces on July 28, the US retaliated by launching
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As we move toward the end of the Trump era, we need to reckon with the changes his administration has wrought in the American system of government. The most significant is the
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A senior Israeli official, likely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently briefed the Israeli press delegation who traveled to Washington in support of Netanyahu’s White House visit, regarding plans for Israel to build a domestic stealth fighter plane and an
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