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By GM Farhadul Majumder and Md Delwar Hossain (Dhaka Bureau) A certain quarter is recently engaged in propagating false, anti-military, and anti-state narratives from both inside and outside the country, with the aim of creating a rift between the Bangladesh Army and its citizens. It is learned that the interim government led by Professor Muhammad…

Kabylia, a historical and cultural region located in the northeast of Algeria, has long been a space of strong identity expression within the Algerian nation. Through its attachment to the Amazigh language, education, cultural transmission, and civic engagement, this region continues to play a vital role in shaping Algeria’s social and political landscape. However, this…

Humanity finds itself in the inherent conflict between rising and declining powers that has often, as in World Wars I and II, culminated in catastrophic wars. The U.S.-Chinese trade war undermines their economies and jeopardizes their peoples’ and world security. Accidents and miscalculations could trigger a calamitous war. We now live with the possibility of…

What’s a “watch party“? That’s what my friends from Italy ask me on WhatsApp. What do I tell them? That I’m in a mega-club in Brooklyn, and that while I dance, pretending to be twenty-five myself, on a giant screen two hosts talk, make faces, and show comedy sketches that enlivened the latest New York…

by George Banez “Biologists seem to care more about eagles than the people living in the forests with them.” The executive director of the Social Development Research Center (SDRC), an anthropologist, told me that in 1989. The young me, a budding environmental biologist, disagreed. I explained that we protect eagles because of the role they play…

For over 2,000 years, ginseng has been cultivated, extracted, and has benefited countless people in East Asia and around the world. It’s often called the “root of life,” symbolizing vitality, longevity, and spiritual balance. In recent years, Korean ginseng, locally called insam, has become a fascinating topic that bridges traditional medicine, modern science, and cultural…

by Shamsul Basunia After the July 2024 uprising, people in Bangladesh expected to have shining days for their lives. But they still don’t have it, even until the writing of this report on November 6th on 2025. The National Consensus Commission (NCC) was formed to build consensus on the July Charter and the proposed political reforms…

by Dimitra Staikou At present, the international community is experiencing one of its greatest contradictions. Incidents of Islamophobia are being condemned in Europe, while in Asia and Africa, Muslims are oppressing religious minorities who have the misfortune of living near them beyond all limits. On September 9, 2025, nine mosques in the greater Paris area…

As malls and public markets fill the atmosphere with colorful lights and decorations for the early holiday shopping season, toxics watchdog group BAN Toxics warned the public to be mindful of the presence of hazardous chemicals such as cadmium, lead, and mercury in some holiday products. In a recent market sampling, the group tested 36…

En el oeste de Kenia, en la tranquila aldea de la comunidad de Lela, cerca del Lago Victoria, Dorothy Adenga, humanista, hija de una familia campesina, donó un terreno, una tierra ancestral que le había sido cedida a su marido, por su difunto padre, para fundar una escuela: «miré a mi alrededor y vi a niños abandonados,…