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Sri Lanka’s senior Buddhist prelates deserve credit for ending the ten-day protest without overturning a court ruling. Yet the episode reveals how religious authority can be exploited for political ends, how vengeance
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Sri Lanka has provided medical assistance to 27 Iranian sailors who fell ill aboard Iranian crude oil tankers anchored off the country’s southern coast, with the crew members evacuated to shore and
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Introduction On Friday, October 23, 2026, Islamic State terrorists attacked a church in the Kingdom of Jordan. The Greek Orthodox Church of St. George in the village of Hamoud, is located in
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The killing of nine people at a Greek Orthodox funeral in southern Jordan has turned an occasion of mourning into a test of national unity. With the perpetrators’ identities and motives still
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With 10 days remaining before the United States midterm elections, election officials, voting rights advocates and legal experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine confidence in the electoral system
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Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, says decades of repression have failed to extinguish demands for democracy, equality and freedom in Iran. “Iranian society no
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The cancellation of a book launch in Madrid has exposed a growing challenge for literary publishers: how to verify the human origins of unpublished works as artificial intelligence becomes more difficult to
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Wall Street’s focus is shifting from how quickly artificial intelligence will expand to whether the companies building its infrastructure can generate enough profit to pay for it. After years of strong stock
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“We have brought clay and made a figurine and are planning to stick uguressa thorns and other poisonous thorns into it… I will murmur a spell… We have prepared an offering to
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned that Sri Lanka risks losing its place in the emerging international order unless it accelerates technological modernisation, expands its
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Microsoft researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that diagnoses patients by working through medical cases step by step, achieving more than twice the accuracy of general physicians in solving complex diagnostic
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