Former US president Joe Biden says Donald Trump should be haunted for the rest of his life by the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, describing his predecessor and successor
In June 2027, the United Nations General Assembly will elect one non-permanent member from the Asia-Pacific Group to serve on the UN Security Council for the 2028-2029 term. India, an experienced player
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After being massively repudiated in Tuesday’s midterm election, Donald Trump has become a lame-duck president with significantly curtailed authority. What is likely to happen in the remaining two years until a new
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The Sri Lanka Navy has secured first place in the Public Sector Inter-Departmental Category at the National Productivity Awards 2025/26, emerging as one of four institutions to achieve the top ranking in
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On November 3, President Trump signed an executive order declaring a “national emergency.” The “emergency” is due to “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the
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India’s effort to strengthen its water security against China is generating a domestic crisis along its strategically sensitive northeastern frontier. On October 23, 2026, protests against the proposed 11,200-megawatt Siang Upper Multipurpose
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President Donald Trump held an unscheduled meeting on Thursday, November5th, with Kirill Dmitriev, a special representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Dmitriev also is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund,
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On 26 October 2026, Greece’s foreign minister George Gerapetritis stood at the United Nations headquarters and rejected the maritime agreement between Turkey and Libya. Gerapetritis spoke on behalf of Greece of course,
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Pakistan is not simply “falling behind” in an AI arms race. It has adopted a deliberate and measured approach to military AI. That approach draws on decades of counterinsurgency experience and manages
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China has adopted a new law targeting cross-border corruption and ratified an agreement establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, as part of a series of legislative decisions approved by the Standing
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Young people across France, Spain and Italy are staging demonstrations over deteriorating living conditions, limited economic opportunities and what they see as governments failing to address the problems facing their generation. Although
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Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has intensified its efforts to establish contacts with newly elected members of the US Congress following the midterm elections, a campaign that Chinese state media has portrayed
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A series of attacks, attempted operations and counterterrorism raids across Iraq, Syria and Jordan has raised renewed concerns about the activities of Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells, with security authorities confronting an
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The Jammu massacre of 1947 remains one of the most painful and contested chapters in the history of the Partition of British India and the Kashmir conflict. Every year on 6 November,
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Sudan’s electricity network is facing the threat of collapse following a series of drone attacks on critical power infrastructure since early October, with the destruction of substations and generating facilities disrupting essential
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External debt owed by low- and middle-income countries rose by 5.5 per cent in 2025 to a record $9.4 trillion, marking the sharpest annual increase since 2021, according to the World Bank’s
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