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'There must be military capacity behind diplomacy'

Interview: ANM Muniruzzaman 'There must be military capacity behind diplomacy'

If a threat to our national security arises, there will be need for national consensus. If military capacity is added to national consensus, that will function as a deterrent power, said Maj Gen ANM ...

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov attends a news conference following a meeting with European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Moscow, Russia on 5 February 2021

Russia’s Lavrov accuses Washington of ‘playing with fire’ around Taiwan

Russia accused the United States on Saturday of “playing with fire” around Taiwan while China said it will press on working for “peaceful reunification” with the democratically-governed island and ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about the release of the 2021 Congressional Report Pursuant to the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act at the Department of State in Washington, US, on 12 July 2021

Blinken urges calm on Taiwan in talks with China

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Friday for calm over Taiwan as he met his Chinese counterpart, as soaring tensions showed signs of easing a notch

The DPDC project can be revamped

The DPDC project can be revamped

Taking loans from China means fixing the contractors from beforehand. That is why a hard bargain can't be driven. The negotiations are just a lot of eyewash.

DPDC project

China-funded power project DPDC deal with additional $450m just for electrical goods

Bangladesh is having to pay around an additional USD 451.6 million just to procure electrical goods for a power project of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Chinese State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during the 77th United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., on 23 September, 2022

Taiwan issue China accuses US of ‘sending very wrong and dangerous signals’

Wang told Blinken that China wished for “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan and warned that “the more rampant ‘Taiwan independence’ activities are, the less likely a peaceful solution would be,” ...

Photo show work progressing at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna

Bangladesh's foreign debt liability swells as price of dollar shoots up

Bangladesh foreign debt liability has increased as the price of dollars has shot up due to high import cost in the wake of Russia-Ukraine war

Chinese and US flags flutter near The Bund in Shanghai, China

China says Biden's Taiwan remarks 'severely violate' US policy over island

Beijing on Monday said US president Joe Biden's latest comments that the United States would defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion "severely violate" Washington's policy towards the island

US president Joe Biden speaks during the 154th National Memorial Day Wreath-Laying and Observance ceremony to honor America's fallen, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, US on 30 May, 2022

Biden warns China and Russia, hedges on seeking re-election

US president Joe Biden issued forceful warnings to China and Russia on Sunday and expressed optimism over the US economic rebound, but surprised many by hedging on whether he'll seek re-election

US President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, US, 5 August, 2022

US forces would help defend Taiwan: Biden

President Joe Biden said Sunday that US forces would defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, while the White House said Washington's policy was unchanged

A bus crash killed 27 people in southwest China on Sunday.

27 people killed in China bus crash

The accident took place on a highway in rural Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying a total of 47 people flipped onto its side.

Russian president Vladimir Putin speaks to China's president Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders' summit in Samarkand on 16 September, 2022

Xi, Putin look to challenge world order at SCO summit

Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping looked to rally Asian leaders behind a new 'international order' as they met Friday for a summit aimed at challenging Western influence

Myanmar’s junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on 1 February, presides an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on 27 March, 2021

U.N. rights office calls for urgent halt to arms sales to Myanmar

U.N. human rights office recommended U.N. members impose bans on arms sales and targeted sanctions to prevent the military’s business network from gaining access to foreign currency

Forensic technicians dig a grave in a forest on the outskirts of Izyum, eastern Ukraine on 16 September, 2022. Ukraine said on 16 September, 2022 it had counted 450 graves at just one burial site near Izyum after recapturing the eastern city from the Russians

Outrage as Ukraine finds mass grave near liberated Izyum

The discovery also came a day after Putin admitted that China, whose leader Xi Jinping was also attending the summit, had expressed “concerns” about the situation in Ukraine, which Russian forces ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese president Xi Jinping speak during a friendly match between Chinese and Russian youth Ice Hockey teams in northern China’s Tianjin municipality

Taiwan warns Russia, China ties ‘harm’ international peace

The relationship between the two authoritarian leaders has rattled Taipei which fears Xi might one day follow Russia’s lead and invade a neighbour it has long threatened to subdue

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