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M A HossainPakistan Observer |
History rarely announces itself in real time. When President Richard Nixon landed in Beijing in 1972 to meet Mao Zedong, the world understood...
There is a certain irony in seeing some of the world’s richest countries quietly ask the United States for financial relief. For decades, the Gulf...
There is something almost ritualistic about the moment when oil prices cross the psychologically powerful threshold of $100 per barrel. Markets...
In certain quarters of Washington, one imagines corks popping. The news flashes across screens: a coordinated American and Israeli strike has killed...
Politics in Bangladesh has rarely been a gentle craft. It has been a battlefield. Victory has meant annihilation. Defeat has meant persecution. For...
The streets of Havana, once alive with music and the hum of daily life, now tell a quieter story: long lines at petrol stations with nothing to...
POLITICS eventually meets reality. Campaign slogans fade; governing remains. An electoral mandate is not a trophy but a test. For the Bangladesh...