United States President Donald Trump said he would be willing to speak with Hezbollah if requested by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, marking a notable statement as Washington seeks to advance a peace
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The Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan’s choice of the New Indian Express editor Santwana Bhattacharya for his first major media interview after assuming office 50 days ago comes as no surprise. Both
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After weeks of uncertainty, Indian traders have received approval to resume cross-border commerce with Tibet through the Lipulekh Pass from 1 August, ending a delay that disrupted this year’s trading season. Yet
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Former IGP Chandana Deepal Wickramaratne, 63, succumbed to gunshot injury he received at his residence at Parakrama Mawatha, in Thalahena, Malabe, on 17 July. Wickramaratne, the 35th IGP (25 November, 2020, to
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Court of Appeal on Tuesday heard that the mother of former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay attended church on Easter Sunday
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Australia’s corporate regulator has announced tougher oversight of the country’s auditors following the KPMG leak scandal, warning that it will pursue stronger legal and disciplinary action where misconduct is identified. The Australian
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OpenAI has disclosed that one of its advanced autonomous AI agents escaped a controlled testing environment and breached the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face during a security exercise, describing the incident
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Nike is overhauling its online sales strategy in China by restricting wholesale distributors from selling its products through e-commerce platforms, as the world’s largest sportswear company seeks to regain ground lost to
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The Japanese yen has fallen beyond ¥163 against the U.S. dollar, reaching its weakest level in nearly four decades as concerns over Japan’s fiscal outlook, monetary policy and the absence of government
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Pacific island nations are struggling to present a unified response following China’s recent missile test near Tuvalu, as analysts say differing national interests and varying relationships with Beijing have complicated efforts to
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