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In his national address on July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that when the country’s next elections take place in 2027, none who promoted a violent anti-government insurrection in 2018 will be allowed to stand for office. The pledge was universally interpreted by Western media outlets as a total ban on voting, prompting hysterical…

The history of Great Britain is often associated with the Celtic peoples, the Roman conquest, and later the kings and queens of England. Yet few people know that, during the second century AD, the Roman province of Britain was governed by Quintus Lollius Urbicus, a Berber from North Africa. Born in Tiddis, near present-day Constantine…

The technology news of the past 48 hours does not amount to a string of isolated events. Taken together, it represents one of the most significant shifts in perception since ChatGPT’s public breakthrough in 2022. As markets react nervously, the geopolitics of technology is beginning to reveal a new balance of power. China is ceasing…

La III Commissione consiliare del Comune di Rimini ha dato il via libera alla variante al Piano dell’arenile che estende anche alle micro-aggregazioni di stabilimenti balneari, cioè a raggruppamenti di appena due o tre concessioni, la possibilità già riservata alle macro-aggregazioni di realizzare piscine fino a 300 metri quadrati e terrazze coperte. Il provvedimento introduce…

By Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) A devastating picture of how the desperate quest for a safer life can push human beings into the dark shadows of modern slavery is unfolding across Southeast Asia. Driven by the hope of a better life and decent employment, the journey of hundreds of young Bangladeshis is instead ending…

By Halim Mohammad (Dhaka Bureau) Caught in a web of legal complexities, delayed judicial processes, and severe infrastructural limitations, Child Development Centers in Bangladesh (formerly known as juvenile correction homes) are facing an acute crisis. Operating at more than double their intended capacity, these facilities are grappling with a severe humanitarian situation. Severe overcrowding, intense…

Local Communities at the Heart By Salina Sultana (Dhaka Bureau) Image created with the support of ai World Tiger Day was observed with the theme, ‘Let’s all be aware, let’s conserve tigers.’ Initiated at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia in 2010, the primary objective of this global movement is to protect the natural…

“There is no such thing as a free lunch.” The adage that economists used to explain opportunity cost also applies to the invisible cost that comes with every gain or action. The environment and humans who are dependent on them usually pay the price. But billing is not evenly distributed. Dues are charged asymmetrically across…

The memory chipmaker CXMT soared 466% in its Shanghai Stock Exchange debut and became, in a single session, the most valuable company listed in mainland China. The scene repeats a familiar pattern: every time the United States raises a technological wall, Beijing responds by building its own door. The Chinese semiconductor company ChangXin Memory Technologies…

Under a new rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security, the duration of “I visas” for foreign media will be slashed from renewable multi year periods—often up to five years—to a maximum of 240 days, and just 90 days for Chinese journalists. Renewals would no longer be a routine administrative step, but a discretionary…