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FSP fires fresh salvo at Govt.

Development officers to launch countrywide protest over pay, unfulfilled Govt. pledge Development officers in the State and Provincial Public Services are to stage countrywide protests on Monday (31)…

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Commercial shipping through Hormuz 'significantly reduced', UKMTO says

Commercial shipping through Hormuz 'significantly reduced', UKMTO says Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains about 90 percent below pre-conflict levels, with operators increasingly…

  • Commercial shipping through Hormuz reduced 90% below pre-conflict levels
  • Only 101 outbound and 103 inbound full transits recorded in 7 days
  • 16 of 18 projectile strike incidents occurred in perilous southern Omani route

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Govt. trying to dupe UN Rapporteur?

Saturday 29th August, 2026 The JVP-NPP government has responded to UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite’s statement on its move to increase the…

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Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela

US president says US will have ‘majority’ control of 65bn barrels of proven oil reserves Donald Trump announced Friday a new US oil agreement with Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez, saying the US will have “majority” control of 65bn barrels of proven oil reserves.

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Lawmaker backs CNG buses

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets, Ademorin Kuye, has urged state governors and local government chairmen across the country to adopt compressed natural…

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Seneca Nation calls for reversal of Trump’s ‘Lake America’ executive order

The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and shows a…

  • Seneca Nation opposes renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.
  • President J. Conrad Seneca demands reversal of executive order.
  • Treaty of Canandaigua guarantees Indigenous cultural preservation.

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Gen Z vs the khap panchayats: Old rules, new rebels

Haryana’s khap panchayats have issued diktats against love marriages within a village cluster or clan, and live-in and same-sex relationships. If people do not abide by these, they will be barred from entering their villages, the khaps say. This has drawn strong opposition from Gen Z on social media.

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Wildfires: All hands on deck

As Indonesia's catastrophic wildfires choke the wider region yet again, the real culprit isn't the unusually prolonged dry weather but the corporate impunity and lax governance fueling the flames.

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