U.S. officials said intelligence collected in 2024 indicated that Israel’s military lawyers had warned of evidence supporting potential war crimes charges for its campaign in Gaza, operations largely reliant on American-supplied weapons,
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U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told Reuters that the Army is undertaking a major expansion of its drone acquisition program, increasing purchases from roughly 50,000 drones annually today to at least one
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OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to broaden a 35% semiconductor-focused tax credit to cover AI data centers, AI server manufacturers, and electrical grid components, according to a letter dated Oct. 27
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About 20 banks, including Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, are leading the $18 billion loan for a data center campus in Doña Ana County,
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Tesla shareholders approved Musk’s $1 trillion compensation plan with 75 percent of votes cast at the company’s annual meeting on Thursday, Financial Times reported. If Musk meets the plan’s targets, it could
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The so-called “Magnificent Seven” — Nvidia, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Alphabet, and Apple — experienced their worst weekly losses since April, as investors questioned whether the AI boom and record-high valuations
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A historic and palpable socio-economic transformation is taking shape in the resplendent island of Sri Lanka. People are becoming increasingly content with the changes unfolding around them. Governmental discipline appears to be
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On Wednesday, a high-level delegation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, led by intelligence chief Abdul Haq Wasiq, arrived in Istanbul for the third round of talks with Pakistan. The discussions, between
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor The 2026 Budget tabled by Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives amid perhaps the most delicate balance in Sri Lanka’s post-independence economic history. Having emerged from the
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Sri Lanka’s President and Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake unveiled the 2026 national budget on Friday, outlining reforms to strengthen economic resilience and uphold the country’s $3 billion International Monetary Fund bailout.
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Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) has signed a major shipbuilding contract with Orange Marine of France to construct two state-of-the-art cable laying and repair vessels, marking the largest shipbuilding contract in the company’s
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A courtroom drama in Paris has cast an unflattering light on France’s intelligence service, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), which has been accused of misusing a secret emergency fund
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The Miss Universe 2025 competition descended into crisis on Tuesday as dozens of contestants staged a dramatic walkout following an incident in which the event’s host, Nawat Itsaragrisil, publicly insulted Miss Mexico,
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