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China was foremost among the countries that condemned the U.S. invasion of Venezuela. The Chinese Foreign Minister recently made a transit visit to Sri Lanka, during which he held bilateral discussions with
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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by Eric Drew Miller’s Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse is a book that dares to say out loud what most liberal democracies prefer to whisper, outsource to thrillers, or
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India and Germany are on the cusp of finalising a historic $8 billion agreement to build six advanced submarines under Project-75(I), a deal set to become the largest defence procurement in India’s
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US immigration agents have been granted broader authority to arrest people without warrants, according to a report citing an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo, marking a significant escalation in President Donald
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The idea that the COVID-19 pandemic merely hastened deaths that were already imminent has been deeply embedded in public debate since the crisis began. But a sweeping new analysis suggests that assumption
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A European crisis fund with more than 430 billion euros in lending capacity could be tapped to help finance defence spending across the euro zone, as the European Union races to reinforce
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On the islands dotting the Krishna river in Telangana, there are no roads, no phone networks, and no easy way out. It was in these isolated fishing camps that Erukala Raju, a
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The U.S. Department of Defense is locked in a dispute with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic over safeguards that would limit how the military and intelligence agencies can deploy the company’s AI technology,
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A former Google software engineer has been convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the U.S. technology giant to benefit Chinese companies he was
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The United States and Russia are on the brink of a new nuclear arms race unless a last-minute agreement is reached before the expiration of the New START treaty on February 5,
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Israel’s space program, once among the world’s most advanced relative to its size, is falling dangerously behind just as the global space industry enters a period of rapid expansion, according to internal
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The U.S. Embassy in Colombo this week welcomed a team of engineers and medical professionals from the Montana National Guard as they worked alongside Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre and other government
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