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NASA has announced an ambitious $20 billion plan to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon, marking a historic step in space exploration. During a briefing on Tuesday, NASA Administrator Jared
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Behind President Trump’s abrupt reversal on threatened strikes against Iran lies a complex web of back-channel diplomacy, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal. Foreign ministers from Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
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Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, delivered a landmark policy address to the First
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Member of Parliament Sivagnanam Shritharan has stated that the ongoing “me vs. you” mentality among the Tamil community remains a significant obstacle to securing a meaningful and honorable political solution. He made
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