In a long past due move, the UN General Assembly voted 142-10 to approve a plan called “The New York Declaration” that hopes to revive the long dead Two State Solution for
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Addressing the nation at the inauguration ceremony for the resumption of construction on the Kadawatha to Mirigama section of the Central Expressway Project, the President emphasized that
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The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their
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The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Navy officially opened a state-of-the-art English Language Lab at the Naval and Maritime Academy in Trincomalee on Monday, September 15. The cutting-edge
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Brazil is taking an ambitious two-pronged approach to combat dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that kills thousands in South America each year and is spreading rapidly across the region. Health authorities are deploying
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This month marks the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, widely recognized as the birth of the modern railway. Opened on 27 September 1825 in northeast England, the railway set
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Scientists have detected a surprising geological shift thousands of kilometres beneath Earth’s surface, near the boundary between the planet’s core and mantle. The change, which occurred between 2006 and 2008, was only
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he was open to “refining” America’s trade deal with Britain just hours before arriving in London for his second state visit, during which he unveiled a sweeping
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Prosecutors are facing mounting pressure to explain why a high-profile spying case against two men accused of working for China collapsed, with MPs questioning whether the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped the
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Deep beneath a hillside in Guangdong, China, a new underground observatory is at the forefront of particle physics research, aiming to reveal the secrets of neutrinos — elusive subatomic particles often called
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Microsoft has made its largest-ever investment in the United Kingdom, pledging £22 billion over four years to construct Britain’s largest AI supercomputer and expand its data-centre network, according to reporting by The
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Prosus NV has more than doubled its stake in Indian home services startup Urban Company Ltd. ahead of the firm’s public listing, making it one of the company’s largest shareholders, Bloomberg reported.
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Chinese technology stocks listed in Hong Kong climbed to their highest level in nearly four years on Wednesday, as optimism over artificial intelligence fueled investor demand, Bloomberg reported. The Hang Seng Tech
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A leading Hong Kong real estate industry association has called on the government to create a HK$20 billion ($2.6 billion) fund to invest in distressed properties, warning that the city’s worsening property
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Japan’s latest 20-year government bond auction on Wednesday attracted the strongest demand in four years, as higher yields enticed investors even amid political turmoil, Bloomberg reported. The auction drew a bid-to-cover ratio
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