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Israel’s offensive to seize Ali al-Taher Ridge, a major Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon, threatens to reverberate far beyond the battlefield. According to an assessment by the Soufan Center, the operation has
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The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, opening with a discussion on
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The Spanish Government’s decision to declassify 40 reports and communications relating to the migration crisis in Ceuta offers an unusually detailed reconstruction of the days before, during
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OpenAI is calling for mandatory national artificial intelligence safety requirements in the United States, arguing that the rapid increase in AI capabilities has made voluntary industry commitments inadequate and raised new concerns
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China’s leading artificial intelligence chipmakers are sharply raising prices for current and next-generation processors as a global shortage of high-bandwidth memory squeezes efforts to build domestic alternatives to Nvidia, according to people
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Meta continues to face scrutiny over its handling of child sexual abuse material after a new report found that paid advertisements containing AI-generated abuse imagery continued to run on Facebook and Instagram
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s much-anticipated visit to New Delhi this week, his first to India in seven years, is expected to advance a cautious diplomatic thaw between the two Asian giants. Yet
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A week after a Chinese humanoid robot stunned spectators by running 100 metres in 8.64 seconds, nearly a second faster than Usain Bolt’s world record, its lead engineer is already pursuing a
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Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has asked British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reopen discussions over the sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Islands, arguing that the Maldives should have been consulted before the
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Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia regional director and daughter of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has resigned from her position following fraud investigations by the UN agency and
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India’s two-year-old plan to fence its entire border with Myanmar has gained renewed attention after Manipur announced it aims to complete its section of the frontier by 2028, prompting former officials and
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Criminal proceedings against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei began on Wednesday in a closely watched US federal trial, bringing renewed scrutiny to allegations first made nearly eight years ago that the company stole
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