CURRENT AFFAIRS
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Sep- 2026 -1 September
BRITISH PREMIERSHIP
Former mayor of Greater Manchester and MP for Makerfield Andy Burnham was appointed Prime Minister of the UK on 20 July
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1 September
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Aug- 2026 -29 August
NEW FRONTIERS
Fuelled by the rapid rise of AI, private tech enterprises and blockbuster startup valuations, many entrepreneurs and early employees
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13 August
NEW FRONTIERS
CLAUDE ON HORIZONArtificial intelligence firm Anthropic is set to hold talks with senior White House officials following
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Jul- 2026 -30 July
G7 SUMMITS
The governments of seven major developed economies comprising the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy
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30 July
SRI LANKA TODAY
Sri Lanka’s rise to 67th place in the 2026 Global Peace Index from 97th place a year earlier is much more than a national achievement
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30 July
MIDDLE EAST CROSSROADS
“To Trump: In the Middle East, loyalty is currency. If you abandon your closest friend halfway through a fight and cut deals behind their back
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30 July
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Jun- 2026 -24 June
THE US-IRAN MOU
As this edition of LMD goes into print – and at long last! – the US and Iran announced on 14 June that they had
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24 June
THE FEUDAL SPIRIT
If my grandmother had been alive today, she’d have screamed blue murder about the US outsourcing its manufacturing to China
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