Hundreds of people gathered in the streets of Dhaka on October 18th to protest the upsurge in religious violence that has swept across Bangladesh in recent days. This coincides with the ten-day Hindu festival of Durga Puja and a viral social media post on October 15th depicting the Quran —
Srinagar, they say, with its twisting waterways, floating houseboats and ice-capped mountains is a city made in God’s image, but precisely which God that is has been fiercely debated since the Indian independence of 1947. Today, it remains as polemical as ever with Hindus and Muslims still fighting over the
An airstrike launched by the Ethiopian military has struck the northern parts of Tigray, announced Reuters on Sunday. This was the second attack in just a day, and a clear sign that the government’s nearly two-week-long campaign against the region—and the rebellious forces controlling it—is not about to cease. Instead,
Following the expulsion of eight operatives from Russia’s mission to NATO, the nation has ceased its diplomatic connections with the western military alliance. The growing schism epitomizes a new era of Cold War-like tensions and mistrust. According to a NATO official, the expulsion took place on the basis that the
