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Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s death, scientists have sequenced his DNA, uncovering startling insights into the dictator’s biology and challenging long-held assumptions about his life. The groundbreaking research, highlighted in the Channel
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by Our Correspondent in Dhaka The International Crimes Tribunal-1 of Bangladesh will deliver its verdict on November 17 in the case against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and three other officials accused
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by Economic Affairs Editor Every few years a new development slogan arrives in Sri Lanka, wrapped in glossy reports and the logos of foreign agencies. This time it is the “circular economy.”
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Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s 2026 budget, presented to Parliament on November 7, marks a further escalation of the assault on the living conditions of workers and the poor, while granting
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Chinese state-linked criminal gangs are reportedly using international students in the United Kingdom to launder hundreds of millions of pounds, according to research by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). The report,
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A San Francisco startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his husband Oliver Mulherin is drawing scrutiny for its work on gene-edited human embryos, with ambitions that some critics warn echo
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For more than a decade, the CIA secretly waged an unconventional war on Afghanistan’s opium trade, using a highly classified program to airdrop billions of specially bred poppy seeds over fields in
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In an unprecedented analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post has uncovered how the world’s most popular AI chatbot has become not just a productivity assistant, but a deeply
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