Member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are navigating a common challenge: how to continue economic development and improve living standards while protecting the environment. To address this challenge, they are
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A challenge over the proposed extension of judges’ retirement ages has intensified after the Bar Association of Sri Lanka asked Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena to consider recusing himself from hearing the
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The mother of former State Intelligence Service chief Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay has appealed to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake not to extend her son’s detention, while making clear that she does
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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States, according
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The gravest danger in the present war is not that Iran has already decided to manufacture a nuclear weapon. There is no verified evidence of such a decision. The danger is that
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Through burial practice, it is believed that the living create, affirm, and transform social relationships with those who have passed. Interring the dead in settlements, sometimes even below house floors, makes ancestors
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On August 19, 2026, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist, Abdullah, was killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Bajaur District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On August 17, 2026, five Fitna-al-Khawarij (FaK, a state
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On August 16, 2026, Juel Bhuiyan, 26, a suspected associate of the Neo-Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB) operative Nazmul Hasan Mamun, alias Bomaru Mamun, was arrested at Demra in Dhaka, in possession of two handmade
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Today, the Indian Ocean is facing a fresh wave of great-power competition. Under the guise of economic incentives and investment, these powers seek to draw small and medium-sized sovereign littoral states(SMLS) into
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In 1991 President George H.W. Bush announced unilateral, sweeping reductions in U.S. tactical nuclear forces. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was supposed to take parallel steps, but he hardly got the chance as the Soviet Union
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