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UK Eyes Seizure of Russian Shadow Fleet Vessels Amid Legal Breakthrough

January 13, 2026
Russia/United Kingdom/World

The UK government has reportedly found a legal basis to authorize military operations against Russian shadow fleet vessels, which transport oil around the world to generate revenue for Moscow’s war effort, The

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Trump’s Credit Card Rate Cap Proposal Sparks Alarm Among Banks and Markets

January 13, 2026
Business

President Trump called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates on Friday, without providing details on implementation. Financial analysts immediately noted that such a move would require congressional approval and

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Paramount Escalates Battle for Warner Bros With Aggressive Legal and Board Moves

January 13, 2026
Business

Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O) intensified its fight to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) on Monday by filing a lawsuit demanding more information about Netflix’s $82.7 billion rival offer and announcing plans to nominate

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Alphabet Surges to $4 Trillion Market Value Amid AI Momentum

January 13, 2026
Business

Alphabet (GOOGL.O) reached a $4 trillion market valuation on Monday, driven by investor confidence in its sharpened artificial intelligence strategy, Reuters reported. The milestone also marked the first time since 2019 that

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US Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell

January 13, 2026
Business

The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, the central bank confirmed Sunday, Reuters and The Washington Post reported. The inquiry centers on Powell’s

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Saudi Arabia Once Threatened Nuclear-Style Oil Sabotage Against U.S.

January 13, 2026
Diplomacy

During the height of the 1973 oil crisis, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, issued a stark warning: if the United States attempted a military intervention to seize Saudi oil, the

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Billionaire Ronald Lauder Linked to Trump’s Controversial Greenland Ambitions

January 13, 2026
Diplomacy/Geopolitics

Ronald Lauder, a billionaire scion of the Estée Lauder cosmetics empire and a fixture in Washington’s political and lobbying circles, has emerged as a key figure behind former President Donald Trump’s infamous

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Sri Lanka: A Textbook Error, A Political Inferno

January 13, 2026
Education/Sri Lanka

A single mistake that was in a Grade 6 English textbook has ignited a huge firestorm in Sri Lanka. What should have been a straightforward quality control issue has instead become a

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The Capture of Maduro and Journalistic Ethics

January 13, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation’s in trouble. ~ Dave Brat The Challenging Questions I was profoundly intrigued

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Multipolarity on Trial

January 13, 2026
Columns/Geopolitics

On January 3, 2026, the United States did not merely bomb a sovereign country and capture its president. It displayed, in the most unambiguous terms, a total defiance of the post-War international

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This Is a Coup

January 13, 2026
Columns/Geopolitics

In these early days of January, we have had to witness what hoped never to see, though it comes as no surprise: the kidnapping of a legitimate sitting president through a criminal

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Legacy of Failed Terror Laws in Sri Lanka

January 13, 2026
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Read Part One of this series The correct title for the proposed bill mentioned in the first part of this article should be “Protection of the State from Terrorism Act – PSTA,”

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Flying Kites Over History: India and Germany’s Bold Reinvention

January 12, 2026
Editorials/Geopolitics

Editorial How adorable: the Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy chose the perfect foreign counterpart to fly a kite with. They came and flying kites over the sky, Prime Minister Narendra

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Iran Claims Foreign-Backed Riots Kill 100 Forces, Destroy 350 Mosques

January 12, 2026
Diplomacy/Geopolitics/News

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi has accused foreign intelligence agencies and terrorist groups of orchestrating deadly violence during weeks of protests across Iran, claiming that initially peaceful demonstrations were deliberately transformed into

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Sri Lanka’s Coal Crooks

January 12, 2026
Politics/Sri Lanka

Corruption has eaten into the vitals of Sri Lanka’s power and energy sectors to such an extent that one wonders whether ‘C’ in the initialisms of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and

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