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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Twenty-five years after 9/11, America is still opening its intelligence files and confronting an uncomfortable question: what did the state know, what did it misunderstand, and why
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Sri Lanka’s fishing industry, a major contributor to the country’s economy and a source of livelihood for large numbers of people, is facing a growing combination of economic and operational pressures, according
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Three former leaders of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China have been sentenced to up to seven years and three months in prison under Hong
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Thailand’s rapid expansion of data centres is raising concerns over public safety, pollution and regulatory oversight after authorities discovered that a facility in Bangkok had been illegally storing 200,000 litres of oil.
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US television host Jimmy Kimmel has announced that an interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas will be broadcast online rather than on television, following what he described as pressure
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Twenty-Five Years After the Day That Changed Aviation On 11 September 2001, the world of humanity lost trust in one another. On 11 September 2026, the international community marks the twenty-fifth anniversary
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Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Europe’s terrorist threat has changed fundamentally. The era of large, hierarchically organised operations remains part of the history of modern terrorism, but the contemporary
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Drug shortages in public hospitals in Sri Lanka has been an endemic problem for decades and the reasons for this are many and varied. Political interference, bureaucratic ineptness, funding shortages, policy issues,
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The Spanish Government’s decision to declassify 40 reports and communications relating to the migration crisis in Ceuta offers an unusually detailed reconstruction of the days before, during
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Pakistan marked National Minorities Day on August 11 with renewed official commitments to equality, religious freedom and protection for non-Muslim citizens. One announcement was especially significant: the government said the National Commission
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OpenAI has claimed to have solved one of the most celebrated problems in the history of mathematics: the “existence and smoothness” problem of the Navier–Stokes equations, one of seven Millennium Problems identified
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A young researcher at Anthropic, Jacob Coxon, has resigned from the company, warning that the race to develop increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems is exposing humanity to dangers that their own creators
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by Our Special Correspondent in Colombo Long before the explosions tore through churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday 2019, an Indian police officer was following a trail of information
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Those demanding accountability from Sri Lanka over alleged war crimes are strangely silent about LTTE atrocities. Under Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE killed hundreds of members of rival militant groups, assassinated President Ranasinghe
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Sri Lanka’s Police Special Investigation Unit has recorded a statement from Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police Ranmal Kodithuwakku, who is in charge of the Criminal Division, as part of an investigation
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