After two years, US President Trump faced another assassination attempt during the Annual Correspondents’ Dinner organised at the Hilton Hotel yesterday. The last serious one occurred during his campaign days in June
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“To me, it seems as if Hitler has won. He’s changed us Jews from being compassionate and caring and do unto others as you would have them do unto you into this
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Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited a combined unit under a mechanized infantry division
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Nearly two months into the war with Iran, the scale of destruction is staggering. More than 30,000 bombs and strikes have been unleashed by the United States and Israel, targeting everything from
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For more than six months, 160 sailors aboard a British nuclear submarine disappeared from the surface of the Earth. No sunlight touched their skin, no fresh air filled their lungs, and no
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Two years after the death of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Yulia Navalnaya says she still hears her husband’s voice. It is not only a memory but a guiding force, shaping her
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An emerging picture of the 2026 war in Iran suggests that the battlefield extends far beyond military bases and weapons facilities, reaching deep into the country’s civilian policing infrastructure. According to findings
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The modern battlefield is no longer confined to land, sea, or air. In the escalating confrontation between Iran, the United States, and Israel, a parallel war is unfolding in the digital realm—one
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The war in Sudan has crossed the three-year mark, a grim milestone in what many analysts now describe as an “abandoned crisis.” Despite staggering human suffering and widespread displacement, the conflict has
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The intensifying geopolitical competition sparked by conflicts in the Middle East and shifting energy priorities has drawn global attention toward strategic chokepoints and polar regions. Yet while the Arctic dominates headlines, Antarctica
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When Chandrika, who came to power in 1994, appointed A.S. Jayawardena as Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, it was as if a bomb had gone off within the government. A.S. Jayawardena
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