by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped a gala dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for BRICS leaders and other delegates attending the Summit in New Delhi
France’s minister for Francophonie, Éléonore Caroit, has defended Paris’s continued role in Africa while warning that Russia is actively engaged in manipulation, disinformation and political interference across parts of the continent, according
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China has accumulated more than 30 days’ worth of coal supplies to ensure power stability ahead of an expected summer electricity crunch linked to the El Niño climate pattern. The National Development
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India and Sri Lanka are separated by a narrow strait, but connected by a far deeper civilizational continuum that is still not fully appreciated on either side of the Palk Strait. While
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A new phase of artificial intelligence adoption is taking shape inside global businesses, according to a Google report issued today that draws on insights from more than 3,400 executives worldwide alongside internal
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Javier Milei’s government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding it, his economic policy reduces it. Neoliberal policy advocates a
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Inequality and Urbanism Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. Urban real estate is one of the most expensive kinds of land in the world. It attracts billionaires looking to store their wealth
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Iranian Ambassador in Colombo Dr. Alireza Delkhosh says the Islamic Republic of Iran remains fully prepared to face US-Israeli aggression. In an interview with Shamindra Ferdinando of The Island at the Iranian Embassy, in
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The IMF staff and Sri Lankan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to conclude the combined Fifth and Sixth Reviews of Sri Lanka’s reform programme under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). If
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Television coverage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visits to the UAE, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway was dominated by optics — selfies with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the “Melody”
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The growing effort to pull Pakistan into Middle Eastern normalization politics reflects a wider strategic tension emerging across the region: the widening disconnects between externally promoted diplomatic frameworks and political realities inside
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For a long period, maritime navigation through the Strait of Hormuz did not proceed on the basis of exercising an asserted right, but rather within the framework of an interaction founded upon
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Colombia is entering a politically charged election season in which a new force on the radical right is rapidly gaining momentum. Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer turned political outsider, has emerged
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The artificial-intelligence industry may be entering a new and more secretive phase, one in which the most advanced systems are deemed too dangerous for public release. That shift became dramatically visible in
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Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence Secretary Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha is currently in Moscow on an official visit that underscores Colombo’s continuing defence engagement with Russia at a time of shifting
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The Supreme Leader of Iran has issued a forceful political message calling for the creation of a new regional order led by Muslim-majority nations, declaring that the era of Western dominance is
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