Former federal prosecutor Jay Clayton has been sworn in as the United States’ Director of National Intelligence following a divisive Senate confirmation process that centred on his refusal to directly acknowledge President
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Ambassador Olha Stefanishyna from her post in Washington as part of a broader reshuffle of senior government and diplomatic positions. While Stefanishyna described her departure as
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India has warned Meta that it could lose the legal protections available to online intermediaries after the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook reel, with Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications
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During the nearly three decades of fighting Tamil separatists and two insurrections by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), the Sri Lanka armed forces had expanded. In three years of the final instalment
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More than 40 people were reportedly been killed and over 70 injured, internet and mobile services remained suspended across large parts of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) for up to 54 days,
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On July 31, 2026, terrorists opened fire on two migrant labourers, Deepak Ratray (24) and Bhupinder (28), from Chhattisgarh, who were working at a brick kiln in the Kulgam District of Jammu
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“Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer In the first instance,
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I visited Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City the day before it closed, in October, 2016. The casino had two huge white gates flanked by 2-ton white, cast-stone elephants. Its
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The publication of the first official images of detained former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi since Myanmar’s 2021 military coup has drawn renewed international attention to her prolonged detention, health, and
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SpaceX is set to face a major test in the public markets this week as the first substantial tranche of previously locked shares becomes eligible for trading, marking a significant milestone following
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Anthony Fauci, the veteran scientist who led the United States’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic under both President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, is facing renewed political and legal pressure after
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A Haaretz investigation has found that a handful of high-value anonymous accounts, led by one trader controlling a significant share of bets on Benjamin Netanyahu, have repeatedly moved prices on Polymarket’s Israeli
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Leaked internal documents analysed by Haaretz suggest Israel’s largest defence contractor, Elbit Systems, proposed supplying the United Arab Emirates with advanced drones, intelligence platforms and other military technologies following the 2022 Houthi
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Singapore is grappling with an accelerating wave of youth radicalisation, with authorities warning that the time it takes for young people to embrace extremist ideologies has halved over the past decade as
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