At 27, Verena Bahlsen entered the leadership of the family company that had produced biscuits for generations. Two years later, she was gone. The departure marked the end of an unusually public
A cache of internal planning documents, grant agreements, and budget frameworks obtained by Sri Lanka Guardian offers a rare window into a coordinated, multi-year funding strategy targeting key pillars of Indonesia’s civic
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For centuries, the grand pyramids and intricately carved monuments of the ancient Maya stood as silent witnesses to a vanished world. Rising from the jungles of Mesoamerica, cities such as Palenque and
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Over the past five years, China has emerged as an unexpected player in global antisemitism, a phenomenon historically concentrated in Europe, the United States, and parts of the Muslim world. Researchers at
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For centuries, most people assumed Homer, the blind Greek poet of epic fame, was the first writer in history. But more than 4,000 years ago, in the ancient city of Ur in
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The name of Stephen Hawking has surfaced in a newly released tranche of investigative material tied to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, reigniting global attention on the latter’s extensive connections with prominent academics
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The human resources industry in the United Kingdom has grown so large that it is now almost twice the size of the equivalent sector in the European Union and 60 per cent
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The neoliberal restructuring of India’s economy has reshaped workforces across public and private sectors, replacing permanent positions with contractual employment. While court judgments repeatedly enforce the principle of “equal pay for equal
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To be human has always meant trying to see what comes next. From ancient hunters reading animal tracks to farmers scanning the skies for rain, survival has depended on the ability to
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What do we mean, in a social and political sense, by “we”? Generally, we’re referring to our shared identity as a community: the collective understanding that enables us to discuss, deliberate, and
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For years, a peculiar rumor has circulated through Silicon Valley’s venture capital corridors and startup happy hours: that gay men, loosely connected through friendship, mentorship, and social life, wield outsized influence over
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The government of Sri Lanka has raised serious national security concerns after revealing that nearly 900,000 mobile SIM cards currently in use cannot be linked to verified individuals, a gap authorities say
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Global food giants Nestlé and Danone are facing mounting pressure from investors and regulators to disclose the financial consequences of sweeping infant formula recalls that have rattled their reputations and reportedly left
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During the last thousands of years, from time immemorial, humans have been “running in circles,” thinking that the mirage before them is real and endlessly chasing shadows. Even though humans do not
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In a quiet complex near the lush grounds of Singapore Botanic Gardens, an international team of analysts is racing against time to confront what they describe as the most rapidly evolving threat
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“Religions had learned long ago that a human mind facing the terrifying prospect of eternal nothingness would believe almost anything. Timor mortis est pater religionis, Langdon mused, recalling the ancient saying made
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