International issues

by Asif Showkat Kollol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh has formally begun efforts to seek a three-year postponement of its graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status, reopening a debate over whether the country is better served by delay or by confronting the risks…

The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signaled both its disregard for international law and its confidence that it would face little immediate consequence. By Roger…

As Bangladesh has constituted a new government under the leadership of  Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) after a largely fair and peaceful national election on 12 February 2026, the people of eastern India (the region virtually embraces the poverty stricken country…

This is not another geopolitical commentary on the Arctic. It is a visionary peace proposal that can save the region from militarised rivalry and ecological ruin. A blueprint for shared security, sustainable development, and human dignity — benefitting Greenland, the…

Following the events of February 24, 2022, political leaders, the mainstream media, and the armchair “experts” all reacted in the same way. They portrayed it as a war between Russia and Ukraine, as an unprovoked Russian aggression, and as an…

More than eighty figures from the international film community, including Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay, publicly challenged the Berlin International Film Festival over its silence regarding Gaza. Their letter is not a symbolic gesture: it is a direct…

The climate crisis is no longer an extraordinary or deniable phenomenon. It is instead an escalating reality that directly and profoundly affects communities across Europe, as consistently evidenced by youth-led movements, historical trends, scientific research, and visible extreme events. It…

When a power that occupies a territory decides to register the land of the occupied as its own, this is no longer administration: it is appropriation. Israel’s new law on land in the West Bank confirms that the so-called “two-state…

(Moscow Bureau) – In its declaration after the two-day extensive deliberations, African leaders, under the auspices of the African Union, renewed their collective pledge to strengthen strategic partnership with United Nations and also prioritize multilateralism on the global agenda. The…

What Trump 2.0 wants to do is lead Western Civilization’s comprehensive reforms with a view towards building a nascent civilization-state that would then unrestrainedly wield its restored collective strength to coerce rising rivals into subordinating themselves to it for restoring…