The Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka has issued a new circular, Circular No. PS/SB/Circular/1/2025, detailing revised guidelines for government ministries and institutions regarding their engagements with foreign states, international organizations,
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The government has announced new restrictions on marketing food and beverages for children under the Food (Labelling & Advertising) Regulations 2022. A long-felt need has been fulfilled, but much more remains to
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President Joe Biden has blocked Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion bid to acquire U.S. Steel, a decision that has sparked controversy within his administration and beyond. The move defied the advice of several
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The Islamic State (ISIS), once considered defeated after the collapse of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria, demonstrated its enduring influence on New Year’s Day when Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar carried out a
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To bring an end to the dollar hegemony one doesn’t need one common competing currency, but a number of national ones, according to former Ronald Reagan official and renowned American economist Dr
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On January 1, 2025, nine countries officially joined the BRICS partnership: Belarus, Bolivia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Cuba, Uganda, Malaysia, and Uzbekistan. This expansion marks a significant milestone in the evolution of BRICS,
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The Israeli military has intensified its campaign in Syria with a series of airstrikes targeting key sites near Damascus, while also expanding its territorial control over southern Syria’s vital water sources. On
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Criminal networks across the UK are increasingly converting imitation firearms into lethal weapons, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA). These illegal “firearm factories” are adapting props originally intended for amateur dramatics,
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Sir Niall Ferguson, the Scottish historian and prominent academic, has made a surprising pivot in his view of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Once a staunch critic who branded Trump a “demagogue
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A catastrophic fire tore through Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the world. The fire, which began on Thursday, decimated up to two-thirds of the
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In a recent ruling in X v. State of Telangana & Another, the Supreme Court of India made some shocking remarks. Justices B. Nagarathna and Kotiswar Singh stated that there is a
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In a controversial series of posts, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X (formerly Twitter), has drawn intense scrutiny for amplifying disinformation and inflammatory rhetoric surrounding the UK’s “grooming gangs” scandal. According
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The dataset by the Brussels-based think tank Brugel aggregating the data on European natural gas import flows and storage levels puts in perspective Ukraine’s decision to halt the transit of Russian gas
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Have you ever wondered why the world’s most significant conflicts haven’t often been about land or wealth, but about water—specifically, the narrow, strategic passages that govern the flow of global commerce? What
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In November, Álvaro Noboa, the father of Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa, had a heart attack. He was hastily taken to a clinic in Guayaquil, his hometown, and then after he was stabilized, flown to
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