International

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh has urged a diplomatic resolution to the escalating conflict involving Iran and the wider Middle East, stressing dialogue over confrontation as regional tensions intensify. After a high-level meeting at the Secretariat, Adviser Humayun…

According to Professor Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s most respected climate scientists, and based upon a 30-year uninterrupted trendline: “We are headed for 3°C-4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species, including our own”…

Protesting and expressing dissent in Italy has become more difficult for everyone, but if a second-generation girl participates in a protest, it becomes an even more complicated problem. This is the story of Haji, a 17-year-old girl studying in Florence.…

There is an old parable: If someone throws a child into a river, you jump in to save the child. But then the same person throws another child into the river, and again, you dive in to rescue. This continues…

Mysh cartoon‘They tried to kill us, we won— let’s eat’. This is the way the legendary American comedian Alan King characterized Jewish holidays. Indeed, Purim, as recounted in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from genocide. But how should one…

Peace Boat strongly condemns the military attacks initiated against Iran today by Israel and the United States, and calls for their immediate cessation. We urge all parties concerned to exercise the utmost restraint. Carrying out a preemptive military strike against…

On the morning of Thursday, February 26, Columbia University student Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, originally from Azerbaijan, was arrested in New York by ICE agents who entered her off-campus residential building without a warrant. Columbia’s interim president, Claire Shipman, said security…

The ancient Greeks famously defined man as a “social animal.” It was a profound observation, yet incomplete. Man is not merely a social being; he is also a potential beast within society. Civilization has not erased brutality — it has…

A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international organization based in New York, reveals that 2025 was the deadliest year for the press in more than three decades. Two-thirds of the deaths occurred in Gaza. The figures…

In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty in the era of global private infrastructures. More than a personal conflict with Elon Musk,…