Nippon Steel plans to invest about $3bn in a major modernisation of U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley works in Pennsylvania, making the facility the largest target of its planned investment in the United
Javier Milei will travel to Miami this Friday to participate in a high-profile summit of right-wing Latin American leaders organized by U.S. President Donald Trump. The “Shield of the Americas” meeting highlights
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The United States labor market showed alarming weakness in February as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a loss of 92,000 jobs, the largest monthly decline since last October. This figure surprised
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Why did President Trump launch a war against Iran? Two reasons. First, electoral polls indicated a dramatic victory for anti-Trump Democrats in this fall’s Congressional elections. This would put a welcome end to
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor “The war has expanded to the Indian Ocean, if not the Indo-Pacific. And the sinking of the Iranian warship, while within the boundaries of what is permissible
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor That was a high-stakes geopolitical gambit. More than 24 hours later, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake addressed the media, calling journalists to his office. His remarks, followed by
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Germany is exploring a major expansion of liquefied natural gas imports from Canada as part of a broader strategy to reduce its heavy reliance on U.S. energy supplies, according to people familiar
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Billions of people around the world, including citizens in countries whose government leaders have thought it fit to launch this Israel/US–Iran war, believe that this insane conflict should be stopped immediately. It
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka is poised to allow the Iranian naval ship IRIS Booshehr to make a port call, following the sinking of its sister vessel, IRIS Dena, which
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Reliable defence sources in Colombo have asserted that while Sri Lanka continues rescue operations for crew members aboard the stranded Iranian vessel IRINS Booshehr, the U.S. Indo-Pacific
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Latest Update Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa questioned in Parliament today whether the government is aware that another Iranian ship has arrived near the Port of Colombo. He
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Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, has defended the company’s decision to allow ChatGPT to be deployed for classified U.S. government projects, responding to criticism over the timing and implications of the
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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has sharply criticized rival OpenAI over its recent agreement with the U.S. government, accusing the company and its CEO Sam Altman of misleading the public about the
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Over the weekend, the United States and Israel pulled off one of the most operationally impressive military campaigns in recent memory. In the span of 48 hours, they killed Iran’s Supreme Leader
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by Eric An American attack submarine has sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, yesterday early morning, marking the first known U.S. submarine attack on a surface combatant since World War
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The United States has confirmed that it was responsible for the devastating submarine attack that sank the Iranian naval warship IRIS Dena off the southern coast of
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