Egypt is considering deploying troops and military equipment to support Saudi Arabia against Yemen’s Houthi-led Ansarallah movement, marking a possible expansion of Cairo’s regional military role as the United States seeks to
Bank of America has been ordered to pay more than $1.21 billion in penalties over failures to meet US anti-money-laundering and sanctions requirements, in an enforcement action that the Treasury Department described
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India’s diplomatic efforts during the Russia-Ukraine war appear impressive from a distance but have yielded limited tangible results. While India aspires to be recognized as a rising power and credible peacemaker, its
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The latest campaign on Balochistan in Geneva shows how easily a complicated conflict can be reduced to a few emotionally powerful words. Occupation, repression and freedom carry immediate political weight. The Baloch
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When Politics Fills the Cells. Since 5 August 2024, Bangladesh has been mired in a profound democratic crisis, characterised by mass arrests, overflowing prisons, and mounting concerns over civil liberties, the administration
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Allegations that JVP insurgents attacked the Sri Dalada Maligawa in February 1989 to seize the Sacred Tooth Relic continue to circulate on social media. However, evidence presented in this account points to
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The article challenges the growing reliance on disruptive street protests as a means of forcing political change, arguing that public grievances should be addressed through lawful debate, constitutional procedures and elections rather
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Editorial Sri Lanka’s economic recovery is entering a more demanding phase, with growth expected to moderate over the next two years as geopolitical conflicts, energy-market disruptions and restrictive global financing conditions threaten
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Leif Erikson and his Norse crew reached North America around the year 1000, establishing an outpost in present-day Newfoundland nearly five centuries before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492. Yet while
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Asia has seen a surge of “Gen Z protests,” led by a generation tired of accepting the status quo and increasingly using social media to drive change in deeply entrenched political systems.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech at the Pnyx in Athens on October 7, a place just below the Parthenon that I spoke at a few years ago. It sounds
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Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
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Governments and seafood companies have promoted fish farming as a more sustainable way to feed a growing global population, arguing that raising fish reduces pressure on wild stocks. But a five-year investigation
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The Houthi movement’s territorial advances along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and its missile attacks on Saudi Arabia are prompting a reassessment of military involvement by several countries previously reluctant to join the
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A series of arrests across Manipur has renewed attention on the recruitment, financing and logistical activities of PREPAK and PREPAK-Pro. Police allegations link suspects to recruitment drives, extortion and attacks on political
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From October 8 to 9, 2026, Police detained 252 people in a single night during an operation against teenage gangs in Comilla District. The drive was conducted by Police from all 18
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