Geopolitics

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

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,” ...

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina delivers speech at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York on 23 September 2022

77th UNGA PM seeks effective role of UN on Rohingya repatriation

Uncertainty over repatriation has led to widespread frustration. Cross border organised crimes including human and drug trafficking are on the rise. This situation can potentially fuel ...

Denis, 9-years-old, waits in a wheelbarrow with a box holding 12 kilos (26 pounds) of basic food provisions enough to feed one person for one month during a food rations in the former frontline village of Lebyazhe on 22 September, 2022

Russia holds breakaway polls in Ukraine

The referendums in eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have been roundly dismissed as a sham by Kyiv’s Western allies

This handout picture released on on 21 September, 2022 by the Kremlin shows Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking during a televised address to the nation in Moscow

Putin mobilises more troops for Ukraine, says West wants to destroy Russia

Putin’s speech was a worrying escalation and the threats he made in it must be taken seriously, British foreign office minister Gillian Keegan told Sky News

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

China's President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose with Mongolia's President during their trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand on 15 September, 2022

Summit Putin, Xi hail ‘great power’ ties at talks defying West

The Kremlin has touted the SCO summit in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand as showing there is an “alternative” to Western dominated international institutions

This picture taken on 18 August, 2022 shows a Japan Coast Guard vessel patrolling the waters off Yonaguni Island, Okinawa prefecture

Chinese moves on Taiwan rattle remote Japanese island

The western island is just 110 kilometres (70 miles) from Taiwan, and a Chinese missile fired during the drills last month landed not far from Yonaguni's shores

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a news conference on the energy crisis, in Brussels, Belgium on 7 September, 2022

EU backs away from Russian gas price cap as members divided

EU countries’ gas storage caverns are now 84 per cent full, exceeding the EU’s pre-winter target despite Russia slashing gas deliveries to the bloc. But analysts say Europe will still need deep cuts ...

EU commissioner for Energy Estonia's Kadri Simson speaks during a joint press conference with Minister of industry and trade of the Czech Republic as part of a meeting of EU energy ministers to find solutions to rising energy prices at the EU headquarters in Brussels on 9 September, 2022

EU ministers fast-track ‘unprecedented’ energy plan

European energy ministers tasked the European Commission in Brussels to work through the weekend to draw up legal texts that will include emergency funding for consumers sinking under the weight of ...

Combination of these AFP and Reuters file photos shows a flag of Sri Lanka and a logo of International Monetary Fund

Sri Lanka has an IMF deal, now it courts China and India

Sri Lanka's International Monetary Fundbailout plan could be a turning point in its worst economic crisis, but far-from-stable politics and a need to get debt relief from competing powers China, ...

This handout picture taken and released on 4 September, 2022 by Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) shows a Taiwanese soldier aiming a counter-UAV device during an anti-drone exercise on Leiyu island on the Kinmen islands

Taiwan says Chinese military drone entered air defence zone

Taiwan said a Chinese military reconnaissance drone entered its air defence zone on Monday, the latest incursion as relations between the two neighbours remain tense

Humayun Kabir

Interview: M Humayun Kabir PM's India trip unlikely to fulfill expectation

M Humayun Kabir is the former Bangladesh envoy in the US, Australia and Nepal. He has spoken with Prothom Alo’s Sohrab Hassan and Monzurul Islam on prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s forthcoming Delhi ...

The European Union flags flutter ahead of the gas talks between the EU, Russia and Ukraine at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on 19 September, 2019

EU ready if Russia turns off gas supplies: Gentiloni

EU economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said Saturday that the European Union was "well prepared" in the event of a total halt in Russian gas deliveries, thanks to storage capacity and energy-saving ...

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