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A 2025 audit of Bangladesh child abuse cases has shattered the ‘stranger danger’ myth: nine in ten perpetrators are known to the child. With nearly 70 per cent of rape victims under 12, and one in…
Facing a UN-flagged human rights crisis and a restive Balochistan, Pakistan has quietly signed a $50,000-a-month US lobbying…
For only the second time in history — after Thailand in 2024 — the holy relics of the Buddha's two chief disciples have left…
On Ziaur Rahman's 45th death anniversary, India's High Commission in Dhaka publicly honoured the BNP founder's 1971 radio address…
South Korea's early voting for the June 3 local elections has already drawn over 6.86 million voters — a turnout rate higher than…
Myanmar's President U Min Aung Hlaing opened his first state visit to India not in New Delhi, but at Bodh Gaya — a deliberate…
Kenya is no longer content with aid — it wants technology. Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi's pitch to South Korea on rare earth…
Ten thousand people surrounded Japan's parliament on 30 May demanding a halt to PM Takaichi's military expansion — the second…
Trump walked out of a two-hour Situation Room session on 30 May without announcing a decision on Iran — and the silence speaks…
