A wave of deaths and disappearances involving prominent American scientists and research officials has sparked growing concern among intelligence observers, with reports describing a “disturbing pattern” unfolding over the past three years.
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The Church of England has announced plans to apologise for its involvement in historical forced adoptions, a practice that affected roughly 185,000 children taken from their unmarried mothers between the end of
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US crude exports are projected to reach record levels in April as the ongoing war with Iran disrupts Middle Eastern oil supplies, prompting Asian buyers to turn to American sources, the Financial
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Brazilian billionaire Alberto Safra, son of the late Joseph Safra—once hailed as the “world’s richest banker”—has won a review of more than $35 million in legal fees charged by US law firm
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Iran has announced it will require shipping companies to pay tolls in cryptocurrency for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz during the ongoing two-week ceasefire, the Financial Times reports. Hamid
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Easter Sunday recalls an adversity that only a few still living can remember, when the Second World War came to the doorstep of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka. Eighty-four years have passed since
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Sri Lanka’s banking sector has been shaken by a massive internal fraud at National Development Bank PLC, with losses now estimated at up to Rs 13.2 billion, triggering widespread concern over governance
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A controversial case in Anuradhapura has drawn public attention after a temple incumbent accused of sexual harassment was released on bail by the Chief Magistrate. Siyapath Sasindu Wickramaratne ordered the suspect monk’s
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Sri Lanka’s sports administration has come under intense scrutiny after Dayasiri Jayasekara, a Member of Parliament from the Samagi Jana Balavegaya, raised serious allegations against the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka,
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by Durga Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Trump’s Ten Commandments arrives with the air of a field manual masquerading as analysis, a taxonomy of power distilled into ten stark “rules” that purport to decode Donald
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It is highly unlikely, unfortunately, that the ceasefire agreement brokered by Pakistan will endure. This is due to two principal impediments. First, Israel is adamantly opposed to a cessation of the bombing
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The recent ceasefire announcement and its immediate implementation have been widely viewed as an important diplomatic development for Pakistan. In a region where tensions can rise quickly and where mistrust often shapes
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