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Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has accused the Sri Lankan government of pursuing a campaign to suppress the country’s democratic system and weaken the political opposition, warning that recent actions against political parties,
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In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about the subjects that have defined both his life and his fiction: poverty, fractured families, homosexuality, class and the enduring difficulty
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Wittenoom no longer appears on Australia’s road signs. It has been removed from official maps, abandoned and effectively erased. Nobody lives there, and visiting is prohibited. Yet for decades this remote settlement
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The US military says it has destroyed or disabled three Iranian oil tankers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), following what it described as missile attacks on two US Navy
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has received US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin for renewed talks on the war in Ukraine, with a three-day ceasefire announced
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