Princess Astrid of Norway has died at the age of 94, the Norwegian royal household announced on Friday, 11 September. “Princess Astrid has died,” the royal household said in a brief statement,
North Korea has revised the rules governing its ruling Workers’ Party in ways that strengthen Kim Jong Un’s authority and lay the groundwork for more centralised control, according to a report by
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For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin has pursued political objectives through military escalation. The question now confronting Europe is not simply whether the Russian president intends to continue the war in
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While the Iran War dominates international headlines, Russia continues to conduct increasingly brazen external operations on European soil. The pattern is becoming harder to dismiss as a series of isolated incidents: assassination
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The fragile ceasefire and current status quo of the war between the United States and Iran were tested over the weekend as the U.S. military launched its first strikes in over a
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Cultural heritage is under attack in the United States. The National Historic Preservation Act’s Section 106 regulation, which balances economic development and historic preservation, has been rewritten to leave historic places in
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Ever since India decided to keep the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance, Pakistan has launched a full-scale, propaganda-driven lawfare campaign across various platforms, desperately trying to internationalise a bilateral issue. The recent
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The Indian Grant Housing Programme, implemented with the aim of providing permanent shelter and land ownership to the estate community in Sri Lanka who have lived extremely difficult and challenging lives in
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Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpts have been adapted from the author’s speech delivered at the Colombo South Rotary Club at the Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo. Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on the eastern coast
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OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, a forthcoming artificial intelligence model that the company says is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold” after demonstrating an ability to
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