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Syria has fallen, but not into the arms of liberation – it has tumbled headlong into the clenched fists of extremism. The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad by Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the jihadist
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, when asked if current events amounted to a world war 3, advised against sowing scare but admitted that dangers were growing and Russia’s opponents were escalating
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated the island’s commitment to establishing respectful relations with the United States, despite ongoing tensions and the imposition of economic sanctions. In his statements last Friday, the President
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President-elect Donald Trump issued a strongly worded statement on his Truth Social account today, calling the Panama Canal a “vital national asset” for the United States and asserting that current management practices
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I would like to extend my gratitude to Comrade Prins Gunasekera’s daughter, Mrs. Geshni Gunasekera, for inviting me to deliver a message on this special occasion of the birth centenary of the
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“Israel today is dynamiting the edifice of the global norms built after 1945.” Pankaj Mishra (The Shoah after Gaza – London Review of Books – 21.3.2014) In the second decade of the
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his Results of the Year annual marathon yearender interactive televised discussion with the Russian public and the media in Moscow on December 19, spoke at some length on the
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by Luxman Aravind Forget about what they’ve issued, a “diplomatic” communiqué over the future of Indo-Lanka relationships. The message is abundantly clear who wrote this, but instead of showering praises, we must
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Amid escalating tensions between the United States and China, particularly during the trade war ignited by President Trump’s first term, US authorities have increasingly targeted Chinese tech companies, accusing them of posing
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Taiwan has recently received its first batch of 38 US-made Abrams tanks, with an additional 70 expected to be delivered by the end of 2026. This delivery
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For more than three decades, Éric Laurier, a forensic pathologist based in Valenciennes, France, has embarked on an extraordinary quest to uncover the truth about Adolf Hitler’s death. His research, culminating in
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