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When the democratic will of a sovereign people becomes the playground for foreign intelligence machinations, democracy ceases to be a national voice—it becomes an imported whisper. In Bangladesh today, that whisper resounds
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Mongolia’s Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene has stepped down after losing a key parliamentary confidence vote triggered by public outrage over his son’s luxury lifestyle, throwing the resource-rich nation into political uncertainty. Oyun-Erdene,
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, currently the head of the Royal Air Force (RAF), is set to become the United Kingdom’s next professional head of the armed forces, according to senior
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