Thailand’s rapid expansion of data centres is raising concerns over public safety, pollution and regulatory oversight after authorities discovered that a facility in Bangkok had been illegally storing 200,000 litres of oil.
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US television host Jimmy Kimmel has announced that an interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas will be broadcast online rather than on television, following what he described as pressure
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it has blocked several attempts in recent months by researchers seeking to use its Claude software for the development of biological weapons. The company, a competitor to
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At 10:50 a.m., a large convoy of vehicles sped through the main gate of the Government Palace’s courtyard under heavy security. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped out of one of
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The return of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India marks a potentially important moment in the painstaking effort by the two countries to repair relations after years of military tension along the
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More than a century ago, Franz Kafka imagined an America where politics resembled a travelling circus. In his unfinished novel America, written between 1912 and 1914, the young emigrant Karl Roßmann encounters
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The story begins with a murder. On 10 September 2025, Charlie Kirk was shot from 180 metres away in front of 3,000 students on a university campus in Utah. A single high-velocity
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When Jim O’Neill, then head of global economic research at Goldman Sachs, published his influential paper in 2001, he was describing an economic phenomenon rather than designing a political alliance. Brazil, Russia,
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Twenty-Five Years After the Day That Changed Aviation On 11 September 2001, the world of humanity lost trust in one another. On 11 September 2026, the international community marks the twenty-fifth anniversary
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On September 12–13, 2026, India will take centre stage as host of the 18th BRICS Summit, bringing together an increasingly consequential gathering of the Global South. The small five-member group that India
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Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Europe’s terrorist threat has changed fundamentally. The era of large, hierarchically organised operations remains part of the history of modern terrorism, but the contemporary
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A U.S. military judge has set June 5, 2028, as the new trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, and three co-defendants: Walid
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Israel’s offensive to seize Ali al-Taher Ridge, a major Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon, threatens to reverberate far beyond the battlefield. According to an assessment by the Soufan Center, the operation has
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Drug shortages in public hospitals in Sri Lanka has been an endemic problem for decades and the reasons for this are many and varied. Political interference, bureaucratic ineptness, funding shortages, policy issues,
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