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China’s anti-corruption campaign under President Xi Jinping has expanded far beyond its
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US President Donald Trump has escalated his confrontation with Canada by ordering
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US President Donald Trump has announced an unprecedented move to secure majority control, through private companies, over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves, saying the arrangement will more
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The 41st Meeting of the Board of Directors of the India–Sri Lanka Foundation (ISLF) was held in New Delhi on 28 August 2026, with the meeting co-chaired by the High Commissioner of
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Sri Lanka will decide when and how to develop Jaffna International Airport and Kankesanthurai Port even if India provides financial assistance for the projects, Transport Minister Bimal Rathnayake has said in Jaffna,
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Former Speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has accused unnamed political actors and others of deliberately distorting information contained in a special audit report on parliamentary vehicles and fuel consumption,
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Australia has confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal, after the highly pathogenic virus was detected in a long-nosed fur seal in South Australia, authorities said on Sunday.
Several years ago, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell began noticing a striking change among teenage girls and young women arriving for their first psychiatric sessions. Instead of waiting anxiously to hear whether a professional believed something was wrong with them, many arrived
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by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
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by Luxman Laura K. Field’s Furious Minds is an ambitious and often unsettling attempt to explain not merely what the MAGA New Right believes, but how a movement once dismissed as a
