Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged the vital crude conduit, adding to mounting disruptions to energy flows across the Middle East as the
On 22 April 2025, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its annual World Economic Outlook report, which has a quiet but decisive subtitle: A Critical Juncture and Policy Shifts. The report, once more a hefty piece of work
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This article was originally published in the Daily Mirror, a Colombo-based daily newspaper. We are republishing it, as it offers crucial insight into the events that led to—and followed—the Easter Sunday attacks
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Vladimir Zelensky has thrown a wrench into the Trump administration’s effort to gear up peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Just after Putin, in a major departure from Russia’s policy, announced he
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Klaus Schwab, the influential founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and architect of the annual Davos summit, has stepped down as chair of the organization’s board of trustees amid mounting whistleblower
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A friend from another country recently posted on social media, ‘I visited the exhibition The Road to Rejuvenation at the National Museum of China. It tells the harrowing story of the “Century of Humiliation”. Now I
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Declassified U.S. intelligence reports from the 1980s and 90s show that, even while the possibility of war between India and Pakistan remained low, the U.S. believed there was a strong possibility that
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President Trump’s global tariff policy announced in early April has had a much broader and deeper impact than originally estimated by many. Despite this shock causing a widespread decline in global stock
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Tensions are rising between South Korea and China over the rapid expansion of Chinese fish farming structures in the disputed Yellow Sea, with lawmakers and experts warning that the installations could signal
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Western automakers are poised to launch an aggressive comeback in China’s fiercely competitive car market this week, showcasing smarter, tech-heavy vehicles built in partnership with local companies. At the highly anticipated Shanghai
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The U.S.-left-behind weaponry has created grave problems for Pakistan. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) claimed in a report that the U.S. lifted $ 7 billion of military equipment, which
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