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Brazil’s currency plunged 8 per cent against the US dollar on Monday, while the country’s benchmark stock index fell 13.9 per cent, after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured a surprise
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Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees across the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom as the software company seeks to manage rising costs associated with its artificial
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China and Russia have agreed to expand freight traffic along Arctic shipping corridors, deepen links between their ports and increase cooperation on building polar vessels, intensifying competition with Europe over a region
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Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot and coding tools, has filed publicly for an initial public offering in a move that could rank among the most significant stock market
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Fishermen’s organisations in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district have demanded an end to Indian trawling in fishing grounds off the Northern and Eastern provinces and the withdrawal of a proposed Fisheries Bill,
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Sri Lanka has recorded 105,097 dengue cases so far this year, with the death toll rising to 79, according to the National Dengue Control Unit, which released the figures yesterday. The Western
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Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of the first named Neanderthal fossils in 1856, scientists have struggled
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The week before 25 October in Brazil was frenetic. It appeared that every one of the over 200 million Brazilians had a political opinion about the presidential election. The country was fundamentally
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Egypt is considering deploying troops and military equipment to support Saudi Arabia against Yemen’s Houthi-led Ansarallah movement, marking a possible expansion of Cairo’s regional military role as the United States seeks to
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Parvinder Singh Jhota spent years confronting suspected drug dealers in Punjab. On October 13, 2026, the 42-year-old anti-drug activist was shot dead inside a medical store in Mansa during a confrontation over
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As mentioned in the previous article, in the mid-1960s, six groups, including the JVP, broke away directly from the Chinese wing of the Ceylon Communist Party led by N. Shanmugathasan. Including these
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Manipur’s ethnic conflict is entering a more volatile phase, with renewed civilian killings, armed confrontations and protests spreading across the Valley and Hill districts. At least 95 insurgency-linked fatalities have been recorded
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Anti-Taliban armed resistance is spreading across Afghanistan, with the National Resistance Front, Afghanistan Freedom Front, Afghanistan United Front and National Mobilization Front claiming thousands of Taliban casualties in hundreds of incidents since
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