An oil tanker that was seized by Iranian forces in the Gulf last week has been released, and its crew is unharmed, according to a statement from the vessel’s manager, Columbia Shipmanagement.
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The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka proudly celebrated the 250th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps at the annual Marine Corps Ball on November 15, honoring a quarter-millennium of the Corps’
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Britain’s MI5 security service has issued a fresh alert to lawmakers, warning that Chinese intelligence officers have been posing as headhunters and corporate recruiters to obtain information and build influence inside parliament.
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In its first judgment with respect to the July uprising of 2024, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) on November 17, 2025, sentenced deposed Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina to death, in absentia. She was
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Hong Kong, the capitalist powerhouse often described as the “Mecca of Chinese capitalism,” is moving aggressively to reinvent itself as China’s premier scientific capital. Its skyline of luxury malls, financial towers, and
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Francisco Franco did not win the Spanish Civil War through strategic brilliance but through a brutal plan to crush and eliminate his opponents, according to renowned British historian Paul Preston. In a
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Artificial intelligence may be reshaping not just how we solve problems but how we evaluate our own abilities — and not necessarily for the better. A new multinational study led by Finland’s
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A fiber-rich diet may help the immune system mount a stronger attack against cancer by reshaping the gut microbiome and boosting the performance of key tumor-fighting cells, according to new research highlighted
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Nvidia could see as much as $320 billion wiped from or added to its market value after reporting quarterly earnings on Wednesday, a potential swing of unprecedented scale that underscores Wall Street’s
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Asian equity markets tumbled to one-month lows on Tuesday, led by sharp selloffs in Japan and South Korea, as investors grew increasingly uneasy ahead of Nvidia’s earnings later this week—a key test
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“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” ~ Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Staged in the broad, resonant spaces of the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles during its much-anticipated 2025 season,
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Golden MV Holdings Inc., one of the most high-flying stocks in the Philippines, has suffered a dramatic collapse in recent days, erasing more than $16 billion from the fortune of its founder,
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