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US attacks Iranian nuclear site
17+ hour, 2+ min ago (532+ words) DUBAI, UAE, Mar 31 (AP): A likely strike by the United States hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf....
Gulf war threatens migrant jobs, mobility
16+ hour, 36+ min ago (450+ words) FE REPORT | April 01, 2026 00:00:00 The ongoing conflict in the Middle East is posing immediate risks to the mobility and employment continuity of Bangladeshi migrant workers, officials and experts warned at a seminar in the city on Tuesday. They stressed that while…...
Geopolitics of strategic patience
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (1647+ words) In the highly volatile arena of international politics, while wars and conflicts dominate the headlines, strategy and strategic thinking play out quietly behind the scenes. In the volatile Middle Eastern arena, with tensions running high as a result of conflict…...
The costs of Trump-Netanyahu's dirty war
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1756+ words) It has been the dirtiest of all wars, if by dirty is meant a cunning, stealthy, unprovoked and no-holds barred war. America and Iran were ostensibly (from the aggressors' point of view) negotiating under the good offices of the Omani…...
Houthis enter war with missile targeting Israel
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (688+ words) March 29, 2026 00:00:00 TEHRAN, Mar 28 (AFP): Yemen's Houthi rebels announced their entry into the Middle East war on Saturday by launching a ballistic missile towards Israel, as the world struggled to contain the economic damage of a conflict now entering its second…...
Pressure builds for Trump to find exit ramp
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (1130+ words) NEW YORK, Mar 28 (BBC): A majority of the American public, polls suggest, have been against the ongoing US-Israeli military campaign in Iran from the day it started.Republicans, however, have largely stuck by their president as the war approaches the…...
Western powers failed to secure Red Sea shipping; Hormuz poses tougher challenge
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (518+ words) / TRADE & MARKET March 26, 2026 00:00:00 The Western allies trying to negotiate a way to protect the Strait of Hormuz for energy shipping face a stark reality: a similar effort in the Red Sea that started years earlier cost billions of dollars and…...
Misinformation surrounding 1971 genocide
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (1159+ words) On March 25, 1971, the army occupation of East Pakistan turned into a genocide. On the late afternoon of March 25, the political confusion ended abruptly when the last President of united Pakistan, Yahya Khan, suddenly flew home to West Pakistan. Just prior…...
The looming Persian storm
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (1628+ words) The potential for a full-scale military confrontation involving the United States (US), Israel, and Iran casts a long, dark shadow over the Bangladeshi economy, one that promises to be far more destabilising than the 2022 Ukraine crisis. This time, the threat…...
A distant war, a regional shock for South Asia
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (1093+ words) Wars fought thousands of kilometres away rarely remain distant for long. The escalating tensions in the Gulf following the recent US-Israel-Iran confrontation are a stark reminder that geopolitical conflicts can quickly send economic shockwaves far beyond the battlefield. For South…...