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India’s Aviation Boom Hits Turbulence as IndiGo, Air India Crises Expose Systemic Strain

January 5, 2026
Aviation/Business

IndiGo, which controls about two-thirds of India’s domestic market, suffered an unprecedented operational breakdown in early December after pilot shortages and software glitches overwhelmed its tightly managed schedules. Thousands of flights were

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Trump’s Venezuela Raid Tests Limits of International Law

January 5, 2026
United States/Venezuela/World

The legality of the United States’ intervention in Venezuela has come under intense scrutiny after President Donald Trump defended the military operation to seize President Nicolás Maduro by invoking what he called

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Khamenei Said to Plot Escape to Moscow as Protests Roil Iran

January 5, 2026
Geopolitics

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has drawn up a contingency plan to flee the country if unrest intensifies and his security forces fail to contain nationwide protests, according to an intelligence

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Chagos Deal Sparks Security and Environmental Backlash

January 5, 2026
Geopolitics

A plan by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has drawn sharp criticism from senior figures involved in governing the territory, with warnings that the

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Global Markets Steady Amid Venezuela Tensions

January 5, 2026
Business

Asian markets opened higher on Monday while oil prices remained choppy, as investors looked past U.S. military action in Venezuela over the weekend and braced for a busy week of economic data.

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Samsung to Double AI-Enabled Devices in 2026

January 5, 2026
Artificial Intelligence

Samsung Electronics plans to double the number of mobile devices featuring AI powered by Google’s Gemini this year, aiming to reach 800 million units in 2026, its co-CEO T.M. Roh told Reuters.

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Oil Prices Dip as Venezuela Turmoil Fails to Shake Markets

January 5, 2026
Business/Trade Wars

Oil prices edged lower in early Asian trading on Monday, as concerns over political upheaval in Venezuela were outweighed by abundant global supply. Brent crude futures fell 34 cents to $60.41 a

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North Korea Tests Hypersonic Missiles

January 5, 2026
North Korea/World

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test firing of hypersonic missiles on Sunday, in Pyongyang’s first ballistic missile exercise of the year, state media KCNA reported. The launch comes as

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Cyberattacks on Taiwan Surge Amid China’s “Hybrid Warfare”

January 5, 2026
Business

Cyberattacks on Taiwan’s hospitals, banks, energy facilities, and other critical infrastructure rose 6% in 2025 compared with the previous year, the island’s National Security Bureau reported on Sunday, averaging 2.63 million attacks

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Sovereignty Is a Sham: The Hypocrisy of State Power Playing the Rules It Pretends to Follow

January 5, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Summary: In this essay, Martina Moneke exposes how states wield claims of sovereignty and international law not as binding principles, but as tools to justify power. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Kremlin

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Yemen: Everyone’s playground

January 5, 2026
Columns/Diplomacy/Geopolitics

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sunday Morning, Colombo US President Donald Trump’s policies battered the global order in ways that were mirrored, if not eclipsed, by the devastation wrought by the

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Maduro Faces U.S. Court as Trump Threatens Further Strikes

January 5, 2026
News/United States/Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is set to appear in a U.S. federal court on Monday following his capture by American forces over the weekend, a move that has ignited international concern and

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Deterrence by Force

January 5, 2026
Columns/Geopolitics

After almost six months of a US large-scale air-naval offensive against Iran’s underground nuclear reactors to reassert its security credibility in the Middle East, following Israel’s strikes in Qatar that crossed the

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Death toll climbs to 80 as Maduro captured and Washington asserts temporary control

January 5, 2026
United States/Venezuela/World

The death toll from a U.S. military operation in Venezuela has risen to at least 80, according to a report by the New York Times on Sunday, marking a dramatic escalation in

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Sri Lanka’s Voice of Valor

January 5, 2026
Culture/Diplomacy/Sri Lanka

I attended the funeral of legendary singer Deshamannya Kala Soori Latha Walpola today. I want to pen down how her famous song “Shrini Vidushitha Lanka Derene Sinha Danaya Lelede” (Lion flag flying

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