Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
India and Sri Lanka are separated by a narrow strait, but connected by a far deeper civilizational continuum that is still not fully appreciated on either side of the Palk Strait. While
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A new phase of artificial intelligence adoption is taking shape inside global businesses, according to a Google report issued today that draws on insights from more than 3,400 executives worldwide alongside internal
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Javier Milei’s government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding it, his economic policy reduces it. Neoliberal policy advocates a
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Inequality and Urbanism Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. Urban real estate is one of the most expensive kinds of land in the world. It attracts billionaires looking to store their wealth
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Iranian Ambassador in Colombo Dr. Alireza Delkhosh says the Islamic Republic of Iran remains fully prepared to face US-Israeli aggression. In an interview with Shamindra Ferdinando of The Island at the Iranian Embassy, in
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The IMF staff and Sri Lankan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to conclude the combined Fifth and Sixth Reviews of Sri Lanka’s reform programme under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). If
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Television coverage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visits to the UAE, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway was dominated by optics — selfies with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the “Melody”
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The growing effort to pull Pakistan into Middle Eastern normalization politics reflects a wider strategic tension emerging across the region: the widening disconnects between externally promoted diplomatic frameworks and political realities inside
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For a long period, maritime navigation through the Strait of Hormuz did not proceed on the basis of exercising an asserted right, but rather within the framework of an interaction founded upon
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Colombia is entering a politically charged election season in which a new force on the radical right is rapidly gaining momentum. Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer turned political outsider, has emerged
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