Sri Lanka’s post-1978 political history offers a curious pattern: constitutional amendments designed to strengthen those in power have often produced consequences that later weakened or destroyed them. From the Second Amendment and
A simulated crisis set in 2033, in which a US technology firm unveils an artificial intelligence system capable of programming itself without human input, has sparked renewed debate over global AI governance
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is employing autocratic governance tactics that analysts and historians say echo those used by Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal,
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There was no one in the room at all, no one except the stillness that had taken up the space, that had settled on it like a jackhammer. In the middle of
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A Russian influencer who became a household name in 2017 after publicly alleging rape on national television now faces a possible prison sentence in a new criminal case linked to alleged distribution
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Over the last several hundred years, different forms of governance have evolved, including democracy, communism, feudalism, dictatorship, military rule, and totalitarian governance. While, based on past experience, merits and demerits have been
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The group stated on social media that approximately 400 of its members had arrived in the U.S. capital. Reuters photographers observed hundreds of individuals wearing Patriot Front uniforms traveling on Washington Metropolitan
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South Africa’s manganese-rich Kalahari basin has become the center of a rapidly expanding mining boom driven by global demand for materials critical to the energy transition, even as local communities report environmental
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Few ideas command more universal agreement than the belief that children must be protected. Across cultures, religions, and political traditions, they are regarded as uniquely deserving of care, safety, and opportunity. Yet
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For centuries, Afghanistan’s educational institutions stood at the crossroads of faith, scholarship, and intellectual inquiry, producing generations of jurists, poets, philosophers, scientists, and religious scholars whose influence reached far beyond the country’s
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A new diplomatic architecture has emerged in the Middle East following the signing of a Trilateral Framework Agreement between Israel, Lebanon, and the United States, a pact designed to reshape security arrangements
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Artificial intelligence is delivering significant economic and scientific gains, but its capabilities are advancing faster than governments and institutions can effectively regulate, according to a United Nations-backed scientific panel. The warning was
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By 2050, population aging could dramatically reshape public finances, with the gap between what citizens contribute to the state and what they receive in benefits and services projected to nearly triple under
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Behind layers of locked doors in the Dutch coastal district of Scheveningen, just a short distance from the beaches of The Hague, sits one of the world’s most unusual detention facilities. Unlike
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Local media reports have revealed allegations that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and a group of associates received a bribe of US$5 million in connection with the sale of land belonging to the
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A fresh legal intervention has widened one of Sri Lanka’s most closely watched court battles over the investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, with two prominent members of a civic organization
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