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Tamil political parties and politicians are seeking political advantage from Thileepan’s death. Last year, Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources Minister Ramalingham Chandrasekaran was prevented from entering the Thileepan memorial in Nallur on
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The article questions whether humanity’s endless pursuit of power, wealth, ambition and recognition reflects wisdom or folly, arguing that history repeatedly shows greed, jealousy and conflict bringing destruction without lasting gain, despite
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Three powerful Latin American women — Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez, Nicaragua’s Rosario Murillo and Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum — reveal a striking contrast in Western media portrayals of women on the political left. Rodríguez
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The article examines the growing conflict over the risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence, from autonomous cyberattacks and weapons to political persuasion and the wider transformation of work and human consciousness. It
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The death of Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, has long been surrounded by conflicting accounts. She was found dead in September 1931 in Hitler’s Munich flat at Prinzregentenplatz. The established chronology
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The disruption of global energy supplies caused by the war involving Iran is increasingly being felt through higher fuel prices, shortages of key industrial materials and growing public unrest. Protests, strikes and
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Saudi Arabia is confronting a worsening security crisis after Houthi forces seized key positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and resumed missile and drone attacks against Saudi infrastructure, while the network of
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