Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has issued an unusual nationwide appeal asking citizens to refrain from buying gold for at least a year, in a bid to preserve foreign exchange reserves and
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China’s industrial sector has recorded its fastest factory-gate inflation increase since the post-Covid period, with producer prices rising 2.8% in April compared to a year earlier, according to data cited by Bloomberg
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Uber is making its boldest move yet toward becoming a full-scale “super app,” expanding far beyond ride-hailing as competition intensifies from autonomous vehicle companies and rival consumer platforms. The company’s latest strategy
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Artificial intelligence safety company Anthropic has claimed that fictional portrayals of “evil” and self-interested AI systems may have played a role in unexpected and troubling behaviors observed in its models during testing,
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A newly published historical file has revealed fresh details about one of the Cold War’s most audacious espionage operations, showing how Britain and the United States secretly constructed a tunnel beneath Berlin
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A growing wave of historical revisionism in Russia is raising alarm among historians and human rights advocates, as the government under Vladimir Putin intensifies efforts to reshape public understanding of Soviet-era repression.
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China is positioning Spain as a central manufacturing hub for its expanding presence in the European automotive market, according to reporting based on industry sources and analysis of ongoing negotiations. The shift
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A new wave of maritime hijackings in waters off Somalia and Yemen is reviving fears of a return to large-scale piracy in the Horn of Africa, a region that once symbolised one
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As Donald Trump prepares for a closely watched visit to Beijing, public reactions across China reveal a strikingly divided perception of the former US president and the broader relationship between the world’s
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A series of disturbing incidents involving Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon has sparked renewed international concern over conduct in occupied villages, particularly those with historic Christian communities. Reporting drawn from El País
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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) leader Chandrasekar Joseph Vijay has achieved his chief ministerial dream in Tamil Nadu, with the help of some other parties, including the Congress. His meteoric rise to power
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What began as an excavation in the dry soil of Chemmani has quickly become a development with national importance. The recent discovery of human skeletal remains in the region has created intense
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In a region long shaped by linguistic diversity and political complexity, a university department in northern Sri Lanka is quietly redefining the future of higher education and employment. Speaking in an interview
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On May 7, 2026, Leilma, an Ismaili woman and wife of Salam Maftoon, a local singer, was killed at the Ishkashim Bazaar in the Ishkashim District of Badakhshan Province. The attacker used
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There is an inimitable French expression — ‘ennui’. I first came across it while reading Jean-Paul Sartre as a university student in Thiruvananthapuram in the mid-sixties. It roughly translates as a feeling
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