Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is preparing sweeping reforms to the asylum appeals process in a bid to speed up deportations, reduce Britain’s reliance on migrant hotels, and head off mounting public
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The European Union has provided Ukraine with €9 billion ($10.5 billion) in loans this year, financed by profits generated from frozen Russian central bank assets, according to data released by the European
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U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has accused entrenched “deep state” actors within America’s intelligence agencies of politicizing their work and working against the interests of the American people. Speaking to
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A Colombian National Police (CNP) UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was destroyed by a drone on Thursday, killing at least 12 personnel on board. The deadly incident, reported by TWZ, marks the first
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Senior journalist S. Venkat Narayan, President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia (FCC), has described the arrest of former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe as “ridiculous” and emphasized that it
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Senior political party leaders in Sri Lanka are engaged in discussions on how to bring former President Ranil Wickremesinghe back into Parliament earlier than expected, even as
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Close on the heels of the arrest of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala thundered in Parliament that everyone was equal before the law. Whether the suspects were former
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A number of Sri Lanka’s former presidents and senior opposition leaders are set to hold a special press conference in Colombo tomorrow in support of Ranil Wickremesinghe,
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Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been admitted to the Colombo National Hospital due to health complications, hospital officials confirmed today. Dr. Pradeep Wijesinghe, Acting Director of the National Hospital, stated that initial
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Egypt has granted permanent residency to several senior figures from Palestinian factions who were forced to leave Syria following the takeover of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) last year. Among those
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by Durga Velayudham “We stand for organised terror—this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.” Lenin’s words, coldly rational yet disturbingly candid, encapsulate a recurring paradox
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, after the agency’s initial analysis of recent U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
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