US mulling bans to stunt China’s quantum computing
October 23, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
The US and China are in a quantum computing race for dominance. Image: Twitter
Last November, IBM launched its 127-qubit Eagle, surpassing China&...
India to weigh Russia’s offer on Sakhalin-1 oil project
October 12, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Indian minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri poses for a picture after he launches an auction of offshore oil and gas blocks in H...
Pakistan-US rapprochement have started new era of relation...
October 12, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
A new momentum is being observed in relations between Pakistan and the US, which had been deteriorating with the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanist...
Sri Lanka to keep ‘middle-income’ status, seek concessiona...
October 12, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
A worker cleans a hotel's window as the Sri Lankan flag waves in capital Colombo [File: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters]
Sri Lanka will remain a middle-in...
Kashmir pro-freedom leader Altaf Ahmad Shah dies in India...
October 12, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Shah was held in the high-security Tihar prison in New Delhi for the past five years [File: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters]
Altaf Ahmad Shah, a prominen...
Ismail floods Malaysia with cash then calls snap polls
October 12, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has called early polls in move seen as acquiescing to UMNO party heavies. Image: Facebook
SINGAPORE...
What would a UK embassy move to Jerusalem mean for Palesti...
October 12, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
British Prime Minister Liz Truss and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid hold a bilateral meeting as they attend the 77th UN General Assembly, in New...
Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2022
October 8, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Annie ernaux is surely the only winner of the Nobel prize in literature to have written nostalgically—even ecstatically—about the Lon...
India’s Congress party seems determined to prove its criti...
October 8, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
It seemed like a test in a hero’s journey, that ancient Indo-European narrative form. On October 2nd Rahul Gandhi was delivering a mes...
Why Biden thinks he needs a new Cold War
October 8, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
United nations or a return to new Cold War? Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images via The Conversation
“We do not seek a Cold War,” d...
A dream? The Palestinian Republic of Gaza
October 8, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Gaza City skyline, 2007. Photo: Wikipedia
There is hardly a conflictual environment in the Middle East that is not subject to foreign input. And...
N Korea’s latest missile salvo exposes US impotence
October 5, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
This screen-grab image taken from North Korean broadcaster KCTV in 2019 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watching the launch of a ballistic mis...
Lankan President Wickremesinghe finds no basis for the Ind...
October 1, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Concept of Indo-Pacific is Unrealistic
The Sri Lankan President said that the concept of the “Indo-Pacific” is unrealistic and unwieldy...
Indian cabinet approves MoU on Kushiyara river water withd...
September 30, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Indian cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Bangladesh and India on withdrawal of upto 153 cus...
From ports to energy transition — Adani Group to invest ov...
September 30, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
The logo of the Adani Group is seen on the facade of one of its buildings on the outskirts of Ahmedabad | Reuters file photo
New Delhi: Adan...
Myanmar court jails Suu Kyi, Australian economist for 3 ye...
September 30, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
This file handout photo taken on 24 May, 2021 shows detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) and detained president Win Myint (R) during their...
Interview: “I hope India would do more to fulfill the hop...
September 30, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Harsh V Panth: The new Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh.
You speak about maintaining strong ties between India and Bangladesh. But many que...
Pakistan would rather be bridge between China, US than ‘ge...
September 30, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said he would like Pakistan to play the role of a bridge between China and the United States, rather than...
Meta owes Rohingya reparations for Myanmar violence, says...
September 30, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were driven out of Myanmar in a brutal military crackdown five years ago [File: Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]
A promi...
Rohingya youth confesses to killing 4 through a video mess...
September 30, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Mohammad Hashim Collected
A pistol in hand, wearing black and white half sleeve t-shirt identifying himself as Mohammad Hashim, a Rohingya y...
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