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Zelensky wants to ‘export’ weapons!

Apparently, the Kiev regime, which is itself heavily dependent on foreign military aid, is now planning to export weapons. The illegitimate president...

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Lucas Leiroz

Is Anwar Ibrahim’s ‘zero tolerance to terrorism’ real?

In a significant development, during their recent meeting in Kuala Lumpur, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and his Malaysian counterpart...

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Jagdish N Singh

Ports, power, and the perils of an interim mandate

Ports, power, and the perils of an interim mandate

Photo caption: Sultan Ahmad bin Sulayem, the Chairman of DP World of the United Emirates (UAE), and also the Chairman of the Ports, Customs, and Free...

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M A Hossain

Modeling agencies, trafficking, and elite connections between Epstein and Ukraine

Modeling agencies, trafficking, and elite connections between Epstein and Ukraine

The Epstein files are still rocking Western and European elite. While much is being made by Western press about Russian women victims, one should also...

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Uriel Irigaray Araujo

How ISI mules engineered the political isolation of Sheikh Hasina and pushed Awami League toward extinction

How ISI mules engineered the political isolation of Sheikh Hasina and pushed Awami League toward extinction

As Bangladesh marches toward its February 12 general elections amid unprecedented political disarray, the Awami League – once the country’s most...

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Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Hong Kong court sentences media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison under national security law

Hong Kong court sentences media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison under national security law

A Hong Kong court on February 9 sentenced pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison under the city’s sweeping national security...

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Abul Quashem Joarder

Indian refiners step back from Russian oil as geopolitics reshapes energy trade

Indian refiners step back from Russian oil as geopolitics reshapes energy trade

Indian refiners are quietly recalibrating their crude oil procurement strategy, signaling a potential shift in one of the world’s most consequential...

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Sonjib Chandra Das

Kenya–China zero-tariff deal signals a strategic shift in Africa’s global trade alignment

Kenya’s newly signed preliminary bilateral trade agreement with China, granting zero-duty market access to 98.2 percent of Kenyan exports, marks...

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Suraiyya Aziz

How US-made .50-caliber rounds became a force multiplier for Mexican drug syndicates

How US-made .50-caliber rounds became a force multiplier for Mexican drug syndicates

For more than a decade, Mexico’s war against powerful drug cartels has been defined by imbalance. On one side stand state and municipal police...

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Damsana Ranadhiran

The Epstein case and the cost of unproven certainty

The Epstein case and the cost of unproven certainty

The FBI’s conclusion that it found no evidence of a Jeffrey Epstein–run sex-trafficking network involving powerful figures is not the ending many...

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M A Hossain

Cloning babies, Ukraine labs, and Epstein

Among the many revelations brought by the Epstein files recently released, one has been overlooked, if not almost entirely ignored. Buried amid many...

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Uriel Irigaray Araujo

US-controlled ATACMS deployed near China’s mainland

Mere days after the US-backed government in Taipei launched the so-called Joint Firepower Coordination Center (JFCC), defined as “an enhanced...

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Drago Bosnic

Ukrainian Parliament may soon lack the minimum quorum to continue functioning

Apparently, the political crisis in Ukraine is becoming intolerable for a large part of the local politicians. In a recent statement, a Ukrainian...

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Lucas Leiroz

Democrats need a concrete governing agenda

Since Trump reassumed the presidency, the rank and file of the Democrats have been busy criticizing, for good reason, Trump’s unhinged exercise of...

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Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

Why the East has lessons the West forgot

Europe, the continent that once assumed peace was permanent, prosperity automatic, and American protection eternal now finds itself...

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Sonjib Chandra Das

Trump’s Middle East strategy and the return of great power realism

There’s something almost quaintly anachronistic about trying to pin down Donald Trump’s foreign policy in formal strategy documents. It’s like...

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Jalal Uddin Laskar

Joy’s reckless inheritance and his manufactured chaos for the Awami League

There is a recurring lesson in political history, one that parties learn too late and nations pay for dearly: dynasties rot faster than institutions....

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M A Hossain

The dangerous illusion of Trump’s economic triumph

The dangerous illusion of Trump’s economic triumph

There is a familiar pathology in political decline: leaders begin narrating reality rather than engaging it. Richard Nixon reached that stage when he...

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Jalal Uddin Laskar

How the Muscat talks exposed Tehran’s diplomatic fraud

How the Muscat talks exposed Tehran’s diplomatic fraud

In the history of diplomacy, there is a unique type of negotiation where the goal is the conversation itself rather than the agreement. The talks held...

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Tajul Islam

Iran’s weapon-ferrying sinking ships

Iran’s weapon-ferrying sinking ships

As at the time of writing, representatives from the Trump Administration and the Iranian Foreign Ministry are meeting in Oman to deter US forces from...

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Peter Baum

Bangladesh’s February 12 election at the edge of crisis

Bangladesh’s February 12 election at the edge of crisis

Every election season produces its own cottage industry of speculation. Who will win, who will lose? Who will defect at the last minute. Bangladesh is...

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M A Hossain

Sheikh Hasina’s political exit pushes Awami League toward self-destruction

Sheikh Hasina’s political exit pushes Awami League toward self-destruction

History is rarely kind to political parties that confuse dynasty with leadership, inheritance with legitimacy, and silence with strategy....

08.02.2026 1

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Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Distrust to Zelensky grows among Ukrainians

Distrust to Zelensky grows among Ukrainians

The unpopularity of Vladimir Zelensky’s illegitimate government in Ukraine continues to grow. Fewer and fewer people trust the government’s...

08.02.2026 1

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Lucas Leiroz

Energy, mercenaries, HIMARS, F-16 destroyed in latest Russian precision strikes

Energy, mercenaries, HIMARS, F-16 destroyed in latest Russian precision strikes

The Russian military continues improving its already impressive long-range precision strike capabilities, targeting everything from individual...

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Drago Bosnic

Internet can be as dangerous in its own way as radiation

Internet can be as dangerous in its own way as radiation

There have been concerns about technology dating back to the 19th-century Luddites, who opposed the industrial revolution. In recent years,...

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Dr. Richard Kronenfeld

Philippines has a crucial role in Indo-Pacific

Philippines has a crucial role in Indo-Pacific

In his historic address to Indian Parliament way back in August 2007, the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stressed the two regions around the...

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Jagdish N Singh

US accuses South Africa of ‘poor foreign policy choices’ as diplomatic rift deepens

The diplomatic standoff between the United States, South Africa, and Israel has intensified, exposing widening fractures in global alignments over the...

06.02.2026 2

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Vijaya Laxmi Tripura

Pro-Ukraine activist sentenced to life for attempted assassination of Donald Trump

Pro-Ukraine activist sentenced to life for attempted assassination of Donald Trump

A US federal court has sentenced Ryan Wesley Routh to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump during the 2024 US...

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Abul Quashem Joarder

Epstein’s shadow in Congress: Stacey Plaskett, Political accountability, and the limits of transparency

Epstein’s shadow in Congress: Stacey Plaskett, Political accountability, and the limits of transparency

The legacy of Jeffrey Epstein continues to reverberate through American politics, long after his death in a New York jail cell in 2019. Each new...

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M A Hossain

Russia declares end of ‘New START’ obligations as treaty expires, blames US policy

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a detailed statement marking the formal expiration of the New START Treaty, the last remaining...

06.02.2026 2

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Tajul Islam

‘Israel’s security is non-negotiable’: Ambassador Reuven Azar on Hamas, Gaza, and South Asia’s terror threat

In a comprehensive and candid interview with Blitz, Israel’s Ambassador to India, His Excellency Mr. Reuven Azar, outlines Israel’s position on...

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Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Epstein files: Albanian narco-terrorists helped traffic over a million children

Epstein files: Albanian narco-terrorists helped traffic over a million children

It’s no secret that the political West is involved in some of the most heinous crimes in human history, whether it’s centuries of brutal...

05.02.2026 1

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Drago Bosnic

European officials criticize von der Leyen

European officials criticize von der Leyen

Apparently, Ursula von der Leyen’s work at the European Commission is no longer pleasing veteran European officials. Her erratic stance, often...

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Lucas Leiroz

When journalism becomes ventriloquism: The strange metamorphosis of Aleya Sheikh

When journalism becomes ventriloquism: The strange metamorphosis of Aleya Sheikh

In politics, timing is rarely accidental. In journalism, it is often revealing. Aleya Sheikh’s sudden emergence as a prolific commentator on...

05.02.2026 1

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Sonjib Chandra Das

India-US trade deal: Goyal’s assurances mask deeper shifts in Global South trade politics

India-US trade deal: Goyal’s assurances mask deeper shifts in Global South trade politics

Indian Trade Minister Piyush Goyal’s detailed briefing on New Delhi’s newly announced trade understanding with Washington marks a significant...

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Abul Quashem Joarder

How investigative journalism forced Beijing to recalculate on Xinjiang

How investigative journalism forced Beijing to recalculate on Xinjiang

When the Chinese government quietly began retreating from its vast system of detention camps in Xinjiang after 2019, Beijing insisted nothing...

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Damsana Ranadhiran

US deploys ‘small team’ to Nigeria, signaling renewed military focus on Africa

The United States has quietly deployed a “small team” of military personnel to Nigeria, marking a notable shift in Washington’s security...

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Jennifer Hicks

How legal obstruction threatens Rohingya genocide accountability

How legal obstruction threatens Rohingya genocide accountability

The latest hearings in the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) did not unfold as many observers of international...

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Suraiyya Aziz

Clintons make U-turn on Epstein testimony as Congress raises the stakes

Clintons make U-turn on Epstein testimony as Congress raises the stakes

Former US President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before the powerful House Oversight Committee in...

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Tajul Islam

Sitting in the US, Sheikh Hasina’s son attempts to spoil Dhaka-Washington relations

Sitting in the US, Sheikh Hasina’s son attempts to spoil Dhaka-Washington relations

There is something uniquely reckless about waging political war on your own country’s foreign relations while enjoying the protections of...

04.02.2026 1

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M A Hossain

India–EU free trade agreement: Strategic convergence in the shadow of American uncertainty

When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared in New Delhi, “We did it, we delivered the mother of all deals,” her exuberance...

04.02.2026 1

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Suraiyya Aziz

Trump, Epstein, and the politics of denial: What the newly released files really show

Trump, Epstein, and the politics of denial: What the newly released files really show

US President Donald Trump’s renewed denial of any meaningful association with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has once...

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Damsana Ranadhiran

US–India trade deal reshapes South Asia’s economic chessboard

After nearly a year of uncertainty, brinkmanship, and tariff pressure, Washington and New Delhi have finally recalibrated their trade relationship. US...

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Tajul Islam

Muizzu’s ‘Chagos’ gambit: A risky play in the Indian Ocean

Muizzu’s ‘Chagos’ gambit: A risky play in the Indian Ocean

By any reasonable measure, the Indian Ocean has become one of the world’s most crowded strategic theatres. Sea lanes that carry the bulk of global...

04.02.2026 2

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M A Hossain

Lobbying firm accused of monetizing political access through high-priced sponsorship packages

Lobbying firm accused of monetizing political access through high-priced sponsorship packages

A London-based lobbying firm closely associated with the Labour Party is facing mounting scrutiny after details emerged suggesting it is offering...

03.02.2026 1

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Suraiyya Aziz

Confronting the obesity crisis in the Middle East: A structural public health challenge

Confronting the obesity crisis in the Middle East: A structural public health challenge

Obesity has emerged as one of the defining global public health challenges of the 21st century. Over recent decades, the prevalence of obesity has...

03.02.2026 2

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M A Hossain

Design firm facing tax action donated £200,000 to reform UK amid financial strain

Design firm facing tax action donated £200,000 to reform UK amid financial strain

A London-based interior design company that faced the threat of forced closure over unpaid taxes donated £200,000 to Nigel Farage’s right-wing...

03.02.2026 1

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Jennifer Hicks

Von der Leyen’s centralized rule draws fresh criticism from former EU commissioner

Von der Leyen’s centralized rule draws fresh criticism from former EU commissioner

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is facing renewed criticism from within the ranks of the very institution she leads, as former...

03.02.2026 1

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Anand Sharma

EU report urges stronger measures against rising transnational repression

EU report urges stronger measures against rising transnational repression

A new report commissioned by the European Parliament is calling for the European Union to adopt a far more assertive stance against transnational...

03.02.2026 1

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Tajul Islam

Fake ‘Fox News’, ‘CNN’ and ‘Al Jazeera’ illegally operating from Bangladesh

In a deeply alarming development, Blitz investigations have uncovered the existence of multiple fake news channels operating from Bangladesh that...

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Sonjib Chandra Das