Japan is preparing to arrange 1 trillion yen ($6.35bn) in private-sector investment in Bangladesh over the next five years, marking an effort to expand commercial engagement with one of South Asia’s largest
The final hours of the Second World War remain a crucible of contested narratives, a tableau upon which Western supremacy meticulously inscribed its enduring mythos. As the Allies orchestrated the denouement of
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U.S. and Israeli discussions about regime change targeting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been acknowledged by top analysts as unlikely to succeed and potentially counterproductive. Ray Takeyh, an Iran expert
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As the Trump administration considers direct involvement in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict, attention has turned to the profound influence wielded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) over key U.S. policymakers.
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President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan quietly attempted to arrange high-level talks between U.S. and Iranian officials in Istanbul this week, in a last-ditch effort to prevent U.S. military
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Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra publicly apologised on Thursday following the leak of a private phone call with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen that has triggered a deepening political crisis and brought
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Every morning, I open the newspapers (now on apps rather than print) and read about atrocities taking place across the world. There is an inflation of pain, from the genocide in Gaza
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There are few differences between the lies told to ignite the war with Iraq and the lies told to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of our intelligence agencies and international
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In a televised address on Wednesday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned the United States against any military action targeting Iran, asserting that such a move would result
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is scheduled to visit Colombo later this month. The House on June 5 announced the visit, two days after the UN Resident Coordinator
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In his inaugural speech, South Korea’s recently elected President Lee Jae-myung declared that ‘no peace is too expensive; it is always better than war’. The words capture an idealism packaged in Lee’s pragmatism. Indeed,
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The region of Sistan-o-Balochistan in Iran has long been a hotbed of ethnic tension and separatist activity. With its large Baloch population, this area has witnessed sporadic uprisings against the Iranian state
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The West’s strategy to isolate and eliminate Iran is not a spontaneous foreign policy decision born in the halls of Washington or Westminster in recent years. It
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On the sidelines of a critical G7 Summit in Canada, leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies issued a united statement on the escalating conflict in West Asia, affirming Israel’s right to
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On June 14, an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Satwan Singh (34), of the Jharkhand-based 134 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) battalion was killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast along the Odisha-Jharkhand
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor In an age where moral consistency is drowned beneath waves of political self-interest, Ursula von der Leyen emerges not as a stateswoman but as an ignoble emblem
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