Ousted former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared that she will return to Bangladesh before the end of the year, dismissing a death sentence handed down against her in absentia and
Syria and Iraq: hospitals as targets The targeting of medical infrastructure has become a documented feature of multiple modern conflicts. It is not a coincidence, but a strategy. In Syria, Physicians for
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Standing in the dust of Çatalhöyük—a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site known to archaeology since the 1960s, yet virtually non-existent in discussions about political science and law—a question haunted me: “How come no one told
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Does witnessing suffering make you more moral? Can a life surrounded by brilliance teach you justice, or does real understanding only come from seeing the world at its worst? For Tom Gross,
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The International Monetary Fund has granted initial approval for a new $700 million loan tranche to Sri Lanka, marking a significant step forward in the country’s ongoing recovery from a severe financial
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Is the Global South merely a relic of postcolonial discourse, or does it retain analytical potency? Are these nations passive victims of systemic inequities, or do domestic choices exacerbate their vulnerabilities? These
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On April 6, 2026, unknown miscreants attacked Minhaj Uddin, an activist of the Bangladesh Jatioatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in the Dighi Par area of
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For sixteen years, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won every fight: four consecutive parliamentary supermajorities for his party, Fidesz; a constitution rewritten to his specifications; courts, media, and oligarchs brought to heel.
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Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila’s Pasku Praharaye Mahamolakaru Soya Yema (Searching for the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday attacks) inquired into the 2019 April 21 Easter Sunday carnage. The former Minister and
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A refinery project in Brownsville, Texas, promoted by the President Donald Trump as a “historic $300 billion deal,” will reportedly involve only around $40 million in initial investment from Reliance Industries, according
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Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, is reportedly unconscious and receiving medical treatment in the holy city of Qom, according to a diplomatic memo seen by Times UK. The document, understood
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