Peru’s progressive presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez has taken a narrow lead in the ongoing vote count, holding an advantage of more than 27,000 votes as rural ballots continue to arrive at counting
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A behind-the-scenes power struggle at Honda Motor has surfaced after retired senior executives attempted and failed to remove Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe over mounting concerns about the company’s strategy in China and
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Swiss lawmakers are debating revisions to proposed capital rules for UBS that could materially reduce the financial burden placed on Switzerland’s largest bank, following the collapse of Credit Suisse in 2023, according
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Sovereign bonds may be on the verge of regaining their traditional safe-haven status if geopolitical tensions linked to the Iran conflict escalate further, according to fund managers and analysts cited by Reuters.
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In an unprecedented situation, ceasefire prospects have been further complicated, and the risks and regional anxiety of a complete collapse of the ceasefire or of the deal on the table have heightened.
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The United States has escalated its scrutiny of Chinese technology and industrial firms, adding some of the country’s most prominent companies—including Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, CATL, Unitree, Huawei, and chipmaker CXMT—to a Pentagon
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The recent incident in Rawalakot can be seen as one of the most disturbing incidents for the political landscape of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in recent times. Starting off as a political
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by Our Special Correspondent in Rome Claims by sources familiar with church affairs have reignited debate over how opportunities are distributed within Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church, with allegations that some promising priests
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Foreign investors continued to pull money out of Sri Lankan government securities even after the Central Bank of Sri Lanka moved aggressively to tighten monetary policy, highlighting growing pressure on the country’s
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by Luxman Aravind There is a peculiar habit among sections of Sri Lanka’s legal and political establishment: they speak as though constitutional principles exist in a vacuum, untouched by context, history, motive,
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Xi Jinping’s arrival in Pyongyang on 8 June, his first in nearly seven years, is precisely that kind of visit: the visit of a patron who suspects, with some justification, that his
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As reported on June 4, 2026, the Taliban security command in Herat Province announced that two-armed robbers were killed following a clash with members of the group in the Injil District. On
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The ethnic conflict that erupted in Manipur in May 2023 was initially characterised as a confrontation between the Meitei community, concentrated in the Imphal Valley, and the Kuki-Zo tribes inhabiting the surrounding
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