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US freezes child care funding nationwide amid expanding fraud investigation

Bangladesh, Jan. 1 -- The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has moved to freeze federal child care funding to all 50 states, escalating a growing national scandal that began with allega... Read More


China and the global order in 2026: Stability, governance, and strategic vision

Bangladesh, Jan. 1 -- As the international system approaches 2026, it does so amid persistent uncertainty. The past year underscored the fragility of global stability, as geopolitical rivalries intens... Read More


Ten years on Brexits economic and political costs still haunt Britain

Bangladesh, Jan. 1 -- In 2026, the United Kingdom will quietly pass a milestone that few of its political architects once imagined would be marked by such widespread regret: the tenth anniversary of t... Read More


A necessity of the contemporary humanity

Bangladesh, Jan. 1 -- In a joint statement with US President Donald J. Trump in October last year, his Egyptian and Turkish counterparts Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as Q... Read More


German prosecutors to drop probe of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov after multimillion-euro settlement

Bangladesh, Dec. 31 -- German prosecutors are set to terminate an investigation into Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov after he agreed to make payments totaling approximately €10 million to th... Read More


Munich Security Conference reopens door to AfD, testing Germanys political firewalls

Bangladesh, Dec. 31 -- The decision by the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to allow representatives of Germanys right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to participate in its 2026 gathering has... Read More


War-torn Sudan sees gold mining boom amid prolonged conflict

Bangladesh, Dec. 31 -- Despite being engulfed in one of the most devastating conflicts in its modern history, Sudan has recorded a remarkable surge in gold production, underscoring the paradoxical rel... Read More


Multilateralism is not dead yet: Why cooperation still matters in an age of disorder

Bangladesh, Dec. 31 -- As the world approaches 2026, optimism is in short supply. Armed conflicts are raging across roughly 50 countries. Trade wars and tariff barriers, once viewed as policy aberrati... Read More


Can Lebanon function better without a state? Rethinking governance after collapse

Bangladesh, Dec. 31 -- For more than six years, Lebanon has lived through what would normally be considered an impossible experiment: a society operating with a hollowed-out state. Public institutions... Read More


2025 — year of numerous critical strategic successes for Russia

Bangladesh, Dec. 31 -- When Moscow launched the special military operation (SMO) to end the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, very few people thought it would last longer than a few months. And in... Read More