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Medvedev’s article shows that Russia is prepared to tackle all Finnish-emanating threats from NATO. Former Russian President and incumbent Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev published a scathing article at TASS in early September about “The New Finnish…

It hasn’t vanished — it has simply evolved, adapted, and embedded itself into every corner of modern life. When former U.S. President Trump—the Discriminator-in-Chief—goes into a frenzy about Somali immigrants and calls them “garbage,” many treat it as a personal…

by George Banez The five-course lunch typical of Chinese restaurant fare in Manila foreshadowed the meals I scraped by the next ten days. My sister treated me to a send-off lunch before dropping me off at the airport that day. I…

Lately I’ve been on shows with other guests who’ve expressed outrage and amazement that the U.S. government would blow up people on boats, exclaiming that they never could have imagined such a thing until this moment. A U.S. senator has…

Following his earlier threat that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s days are numbered, US President Donald Trump announced on social media he was closing Venezuelan airspace. He then immodestly proclaimed the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, commending his nineteenth century…

It’ll strengthen their complementary balancing acts for averting disproportionate dependence on the American and Chinese superpowers amidst the global systemic transition to complex multipolarity. Putin is on his first state visit to India in four years after having last visited…

The UN is being systematically starved of funds while the money goes to the insatiable military. If this is not short-sighted, irresponsible and shameful, what is? The United Nations is facing one of the gravest financial crises in its history.…

Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest yet most neglected province. It stretches across the country’s southwestern edge, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, with a long coastline on the Sea of Oman—conditions that could have made it a corridor of development and stability. Instead,…

Baseless Felony Charges for Saving Lives at Sea Should End in Acquittal  By Bill Van Esveld and Eva Cossé Two dozen humanitarian workers face trial on the Greek island of Lesbos this week on baseless felony charges that carry 20…

By Maruf ul Alam (Dhaka Bureau) Limited revenue-funded positions, the need for rapid recruitment, and the advantages of project-based work have made the hiring of outsourced personnel a daily occurrence in a lot of government institutions. However, the hidden reality…