Australia and Vanuatu have signed a long-delayed development and security agreement that strengthens Canberra’s role as the Pacific island nation’s preferred security partner while establishing new consultation measures over foreign investment in
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As Chinese military and coast guard activity intensifies around Taiwan, one Taiwan Coast Guard officer says his frontline duties are reinforced not only by training and discipline but also by religious faith
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The Incident What began as an ordinary international flight between the United States and Canada soon evolved into an extraordinary demonstration of the resilience of modern aviation and, simultaneously, into a compelling
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Editorial Today is our Poson Poya Day. The day we are asked to believe that we got Buddhism, even though, according to our own historical tales, we are asked at the same
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Europe is undertaking its most significant military rearmament since the end of the Cold War as governments across the continent reshape defense budgets, strengthen military capabilities and prepare for a future in
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The United Kingdom is once again preparing for a change of leadership after the resignation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, marking the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade and extending an
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Advanced Israeli defense systems have been supplied to Qatar and Saudi Arabia through a series of defense contracts and subcontracting arrangements, according to documents, official procurement records and photographs reported by Haaretz.
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Two Asian artificial intelligence companies have unveiled new frontier AI models within days of each other, positioning their products as alternatives to advanced US systems as Washington’s export restrictions on Anthropic’s most
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From a converted barn in New Hampshire, with an American flag draped behind him, Ken Burns looks back across nearly five decades of documenting the United States. The filmmaker, widely known as
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A suspicion can now begin with a simple feeling: a text sounds too polished, too predictable, too much like something generated by a machine. Increasingly, that suspicion is being tested through Pangram,
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Sri Lanka just lost 2.5 million dollars to a hacker, and the two institutions responsible for guarding the country’s money are spending more energy dodging blame than explaining how it happened. That
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Sri Lanka is sitting on the fourth rarest gemstone on earth, and instead of turning that into national leverage, it is letting individual traders smuggle it out through informal channels because the
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A company that helped destroy farmland and threaten protesters in Liberia is now trying to mine the coast of eastern Sri Lanka, and it has not bothered to change its strategy, only
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The pickup truck rattled across jungle terrain toward gates topped with barbed wire, where masked men carrying automatic rifles checked names against a list before radioing for confirmation. According to reporting by
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On Wednesday morning, Anant Ambani, heir to one of the world’s largest fortunes, was on his way to work with his wife when he spotted an injured crow by the road. He
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