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Seventeen years after the assassination of Lasantha Wickramatunga, Sri Lanka’s acclaimed journalist and founding editor of the Sunday Leader, his murder remains unresolved, highlighting persistent challenges for press freedom and justice in
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Nearly 25 percent of Sri Lanka’s population is currently living in poverty, according to surveys highlighted in a new report released by the Poverty Analysis Center in collaboration with ODI Global. Experts
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Sri Lanka’s healthcare system is under intense scrutiny as concerns mount over substandard medicines and vaccines, with experts warning that outdated testing facilities are putting patients at risk. Speaking to a weekly
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Israel and Hamas are bracing for renewed fighting in Gaza as the Palestinian militant group refuses to fully disarm, a key requirement delaying progress on President Trump’s peace plan, the Wall Street
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Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described the current global landscape as “some of the most dangerous times in living memory,” while simultaneously highlighting its transformative potential, in his regular column
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The departure of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela has opened the door to what could become the world’s largest and most complex sovereign debt restructuring since Greece’s 2012 default, the Financial Times reports.
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OpenAI and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank have agreed to jointly invest $1 billion in SB Energy, a move aimed at accelerating the development of large-scale data centres to support artificial intelligence growth. The
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Argentina has fully repaid the funds drawn under its $20 billion currency swap with the US Treasury, signaling a significant recovery from the market turmoil that threatened President Javier Milei’s government last
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Ethiopia has launched construction of a $12.5 billion airport that officials say will be the largest aviation infrastructure project in Africa, marking a major expansion of the country’s ambitions as a continental
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China, Russia and Iran on Saturday began a week of joint naval exercises in South Africa’s territorial waters, an operation the host nation described as a BRICS Plus initiative aimed at safeguarding
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Since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution severed ties with Washington and replaced a U.S.-backed monarchy with an Islamic republic, successive American administrations have pursued a sustained effort to weaken or overthrow Iran’s government.
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A security guard assigned to protect Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has delivered a chilling account of what he describes as a U.S. military attack that left government forces overwhelmed by technology they
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ExxonMobil’s chief executive has delivered a blunt rebuke to President Donald Trump’s efforts to entice U.S. oil companies back into Venezuela, declaring that the country remains effectively off-limits for serious investment. Speaking
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