In Taining, Fujian There are journeys that take us from one destination to another, and there are journeys that quietly return us to ourselves. My experience on the bamboo raft along Shangqing
SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son, one of the technology industry’s strongest advocates for artificial intelligence, has warned that increasingly powerful AI systems could become “super dangerous” if placed in the wrong hands,
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The arrest of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera raises a difficult question about the reach of judicial power: can a procedural defect in a presidential pardon, granted in 2019 after intervention by Sri
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Thirty years after Alicia Giménez Bartlett created Petra Delicado, the Spanish author is marking the anniversary with Bajo el cielo infernal, the thirteenth novel in the detective series and a story that
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Singapore’s government has launched a dating service that uses a Nobel Prize-winning matching algorithm to pair public-sector employees, introducing a highly controlled alternative to commercial dating platforms as the city-state faces a
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces renewed political pressure as the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janata Party and separate student and civil society groups stage protests on Friday demanding the resignation of Chief
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China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty while demand for services for older people increases.
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Passengers aboard a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv intervened in the cockpit after the aircraft began losing altitude and one pilot was allegedly stabbed by the other, according to testimonies reported by
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The FBI’s decision to place Goldy Brar on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List has transformed an India-based organised-crime investigation into a major American manhunt. The case, linked by US authorities to
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From once-violent streets in Masaya to nationwide consultations on electoral reform, Nicaragua’s government is presenting its political changes as a defence of popular sovereignty against Washington’s growing involvement in Latin American elections.
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The prospect of artificial intelligence destroying humanity has become a prominent part of the technology industry’s public debate, but Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues that the more immediate danger lies elsewhere: the
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Quebec’s separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) is leading polls ahead of the province’s October 5 election, putting the party on course for a possible return to power after more than a decade in
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Pope Leo XIV has rejected describing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church simply as a “systemic” problem, while acknowledging that some church organisations had at times operated “as an abusive system”. His
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Kamjong District has emerged as one of the principal theatres of the expanding Naga-Kuki confrontation in Manipur in 2026. Located along the India-Myanmar border and predominantly inhabited by Tangkhul Naga communities, the
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A Chinese medical doctor with a PhD has left a prestigious hospital career to work as a food-delivery rider, breakfast seller and pub singer, choosing a flexible freelance life after years spent
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