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How Irans Gulf escalation backfired

Bangladesh, Sept. 10 -- Tehran sought to exploit divisions across the Gulf by widening the war. Instead, its attacks are pushing Arab states toward a more coordinated strategy of diplomatic, economic ... Read More


Irans fragmentation gamble is backfiring: How the Gulf turned escalation into unity

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Iran appears to have entered its latest confrontation with the Gulf expecting a familiar outcome: pressure on individual Arab states would expose their differences, weaken their... Read More


Spain dismantles ‘Dubai Bank cocaine network in global crackdown

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Spanish authorities have dismantled a major international cocaine trafficking and money laundering network allegedly operating through an underground financial system known as t... Read More


Brochures vs battlefields: Why Chinese military hardware keeps failing

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- On the morning of September 9, 2026, a routine field firing exercise at the Hathazari range in Chattogram turned fatal. A T 59 tanks gun malfunctioned during live shelling, kill... Read More


Cross-border murder plot in Cyprus uncovered by undercover police operation

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- has been exposed in Cyprus after a Danish undercover police officer posed as a contract killer and infiltrated an alleged plot to assassinate twin brothers vacationing on the Me... Read More


Indias defense export ambition: From licensed production to a global powerhouse

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- For decades, India was better known as one of the worlds largest importers of military hardware than as a serious arms exporter. That image is now beginning to change. From Brah... Read More


Europes China dilemma: Why Brussels risks turning a partner into an adversary

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- The European Union is facing a difficult combination of economic stagnation, political polarization, social tensions and growing strategic uncertainty. Its relationship with Rus... Read More


Former Swiss banking chief gets suspended sentence in $101 million bribery case

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Pierre Mirabaud, a former president of the Swiss Bankers Association and one-time partner at Geneva-based private bank Mirabaud & Cie, has been handed a two-year suspended priso... Read More


Former Philippine house speaker Martin Romualdez arrested in $118 million plunder case

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Former Philippine House Speaker Martin Romualdez, a cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has been arrested in connection with a massive corruption case involving alleged ki... Read More


Trumps childcare gamble exposes Americas marriage penalty

Bangladesh, Sept. 7 -- America has spent decades building a welfare system that can subsidize almost everything except the one institution politicians constantly claim they want to strengthen: the fam... Read More