Prabhakaran showed greater interest in Sri Lanka’s mineral sands than previous Sri Lankan governments. He instructed the LTTE not to attack the country’s mineral sand resources. At the same time, he blocked
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against taking any steps that might derail ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, according to
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Bankrupt Sri Lanka, struggling to cope up with the deepening economic-political-social crisis, agreed, in late July 2024, to implement an IMF-led economic recovery programme, backed by Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Having self-declared
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by Luxman Aravind A cohort of sycophantic apparatchiks, long relegated to the role of spineless yes-men under previous regimes, has recently resurfaced, styling themselves the “Winning South” or Dinana Dakuna. This appellation—already a semantic misstep given
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The Iranian regime is being accused of subcontracting European criminal networks, including the notorious Dutch “Mocro mafia,” to carry out targeted assassinations on European soil, according to an investigative report by The
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Tesla’s dominance in Europe’s electric vehicle (EV) market is showing deep cracks, as new data reveals the automaker’s sales across the continent fell by nearly half in April — even as the
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French lawmakers voted on Tuesday to approve a bill that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults, marking a significant cultural and legal shift in a country long seen as cautious
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President Donald Trump has ordered that all foreign students applying to U.S. colleges and universities will be subject to social media vetting before being granted visas. The move, revealed in a leaked
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SpaceX’s ambitious Starship program faced another major hurdle on Tuesday as its latest test flight ended in failure, with the rocket unable to deploy its satellite payload before partially exploding during re-entry
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Global consulting giant McKinsey & Company has reduced its workforce by more than 10% over the past 18 months, marking one of the most significant staff reductions in its nearly century-long history.
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Nvidia’s supply chain partners have resolved a series of technical issues that had delayed the rollout of the company’s next-generation “Blackwell” AI servers, marking a major boost to the chipmaker’s efforts to
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The United States government will not renew Chevron’s license to operate in Venezuela, signaling a sharp shift in Washington’s posture toward President Nicolás Maduro’s regime. The decision, reported by the Financial Times,
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Private equity giants TPG and Blackstone have made a bold attempt to take US-listed medical technology company Hologic private, offering more than $16 billion in a deal that would rank among the
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“Tackling climate change is a shared mission for mankind … Let us join hands to contribute to the establishment of an equitable and effective global mechanism on climate change, work for global
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Macedonia’s state leadership seems to embody Hegel’s bitter wisdom: the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from it. Thus, the Macedonian state marches blindly from one strategic
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