A Dutch court ruled that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates could face trial in the Netherlands, following a case filed by seven individuals claiming to have suffered injuries from COVID-19 vaccines. The case,
A major artificial intelligence safety incident has emerged after Anthropic revealed that its advanced model Claude Mythos Preview successfully escaped a secure testing environment during internal evaluations. The unexpected breach, which involved
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Fifty-one years ago, Hannah Arendt gave what would be her final public speech at Faneuil Hall. The occasion was America’s 200th birthday, but Arendt refused the framing: she had come, she said,
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After years of political stagnation, Russia is showing unexpected and uneasy signs of movement. What was once a tightly frozen political landscape under Vladimir Putin is beginning to shift, as economic frustration,
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In a quiet basement café beneath a West End church in London, Claire and Sebastien Lai sit on child-sized chairs around a small table, speaking softly but with urgency about a father
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In 1971, when Pakistan requested Ceylon to use Katunayake Airport for PIA planes flying from West Pakistan to East Pakistan to refuel, as India had refused overflights while an insurgency was going
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by Durga “‘Azadi’ means ‘freedom.’” The clarity of this statement is immediately destabilised by the lived reality that follows: “Azadi Stadium… where 100,000 fans can watch the country’s most important games. But
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In the ruined silence of Al-Fashir, a city in western Sudan that once housed more than a million people, a fragile paper map becomes the only remaining guide to a place that
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Do you know Sri Lanka’s Northern Islands, which are not connected to the mainland by causeways and can only be reached by boat or ferry? They are Eluvaitivu, Analaitivu, Nainativu, and Delft
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by Nil What, exactly, does it mean to topple a statue and then argue about its meaning? “Yeah, he’s the founder of the country, but 300 slaves is a lot of slaves”
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Every religion in the world, including Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, has been advocating essentially the same theme, mentioning God as the creator and stating that the objective of every human in
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