The world is on course to miss its 2030 target for ending extreme poverty, with 826 million people already affected. Experts warn that widening inequality, war, declining aid and political inaction are
As tensions between Washington and Tehran continue to intensify, the Trump administration has sought to raise the stakes by announcing a new agreement with Saudi Arabia, Iran’s longstanding regional rival. The accord
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The United States has accumulated the world’s largest national debt, reaching $39 trillion, yet its debt burden relative to the size of its economy remains below that of Japan and Singapore, according
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Vietnam is preparing to introduce sweeping new restrictions on the use of social media by children under the age of 16, according to a draft decree reviewed by Reuters, marking the country’s
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China’s leading memory chip manufacturers, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC), are emerging as increasingly influential players in the global semiconductor industry, using strong demand for memory chips
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The United States has imposed a 10% tariff on goods imported from Sri Lanka under a sweeping new trade regime targeting 60 economies over what Washington says is the failure of trading
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The United States has imposed new tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on goods from 60 trading partners, including several South Asian economies, in the latest overhaul of its trade policy under President
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A Sri Lankan court has directed police authorities to ensure that Chinese nationals brought before the judiciary are accompanied by a suitable language interpreter, following disruptions to court proceedings caused by the
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has moved decisively to remove one of the most senior figures within his own political circle as his administration seeks to draw a line under a corruption scandal
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There are moments in history when a system appears so complete that it becomes difficult to imagine its end. When Britannia ‘ruled the waves’, it was thought in large parts of the
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The belief that unseen elites secretly govern the United States has become one of the most enduring themes in American political life. While the recent controversy surrounding the Epstein files has once
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Long before Sri Lanka’s civil war reached its bloodiest chapters, one of America’s most influential foreign policy architects publicly argued that the island’s conflict could not be resolved through military means alone.
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has expressed appreciation to the Government of Sri Lanka for its cooperation in repatriating the bodies of those killed in what he described as the “unlawful and cowardly”
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Armenia is undertaking a sweeping transformation of its armed forces, replacing decades of near-total dependence on Russian military equipment with weapons and defence partnerships spanning India, France, China, Iran and the United
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The brutal killing of four migrant farm workers in Calabria has reignited scrutiny of Italy’s illegal labour recruitment system known as “caporalato”, with social organisations warning that the practice continues to expose
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by Our Correspondent in Jaffna The European Union Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Carmen Moreno, questioned why the Sinhalese-majority South was “anxious” about investment being directed to Northern Sri Lanka, making the remarks
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