A shirtless, masked young man standing above a São Paulo metro station, waving Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s flag alongside a Palestinian flag, became one of the defining images of
Sadiq Khan has reached out to Anthropic’s CEO, praising the company’s ethical stance after it was blacklisted by former US President Donald Trump, signaling London’s ambition to become a global hub for
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Indonesia has announced a sweeping new regulation that will block access to social media for users under 16, making it the first major non-Western country to take such a step in a
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Ales Bialiatski, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist and head of the Viasna human rights centre, has given a harrowing account of life under Alexander Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule. Speaking to Times UK from
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Why did President Trump launch a war against Iran? Two reasons. First, electoral polls indicated a dramatic victory for anti-Trump Democrats in this fall’s Congressional elections. This would put a welcome end to
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor “The war has expanded to the Indian Ocean, if not the Indo-Pacific. And the sinking of the Iranian warship, while within the boundaries of what is permissible
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor That was a high-stakes geopolitical gambit. More than 24 hours later, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake addressed the media, calling journalists to his office. His remarks, followed by
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A retired Sri Lanka Air Force officer has filed a Fundamental Rights petition before the Supreme Court challenging the arrest and detention of former State Intelligence Service Chief, retired Major General Suresh
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Pakistan and Afghanistan have entered what many observers describe as an open phase of military confrontation following Pakistan’s launch of Operation Ghazab lil-Haq in late February 2026. The operation, presented by Islamabad
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Iran is a country that has endured suffering for decades, yet even those who thought they had seen it all say the current devastation is unlike anything before. The memory of the
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Finland plans to remove a long-standing legal ban on nuclear weapons on its territory, the government announced on Thursday, in a move that could allow the deployment of atomic arms on Finnish
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U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed his call for Israel’s president to grant a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over ongoing corruption charges, arguing that the Israeli leader should not be
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Airline shares moved in sharply different directions on Thursday as the aviation industry grappled with the fallout from escalating conflict in the Middle East, with Asian carriers showing signs of recovery while
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Hezbollah has deployed elite fighters to southern Lebanon to confront Israeli forces, according to Lebanese sources familiar with the movement, marking a significant escalation as the Iran-backed group re-enters territory it had
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new-generation destroyer, overseen a strategic cruise missile launch from the vessel, and supervised a nationwide sniper competition, actions that signal an accelerating push
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On 28 February, a few hours after negotiators said that Iran had accepted many of the demands regarding its nuclear programme, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran. This was
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