Anis Chowdhury 2022 has been a year of great uncertainty when it seemed the world perilously reached the brink of self-destruction – be it human-induced climate change or military conflict. Welcoming 2022, we had enough reasons to be optimistic; but it was another ‘year of living dangerously’ – Tahun vivere pericoloso
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UN chief fears Ukraine war will go on
The paradox of powerless superpowers versus the plight & power of the Ukrainian people
Putin open to talks, diplomacy on Ukraine: Kremlin
President Vladimir Putin is open to talks on a possible settlement to the conflict in Ukraine and believes in a diplomatic solution, the Kremlin said on Friday after Joe Biden suggested he was prepared to speak to the Russian leader. Biden, speaking beside French President Emmanuel Macron, said the only
PM foresees no crisis in consumer goods
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday assured the people that there won't be any crisis of consumer goods in the country."There will be no problem regarding consumer goods. We've started importing (goods) from Ukraine and Russia as well," she said. The premier was addressing the 5th National Conference of Swadhinata
War, greed and mass manipulation
In his treatise On War, the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) stated that war is “merely a continuation of policy with other means”. With his experience from the Napoleonic Wars von Clausewitz knew that totalitarian regimes could end up conducting huge and ruthless military campaigns. Furthermore, he assumed that
Russia vetoes UN resolution calling its referendums illegal
Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution Friday that would have condemned its referendums in four Ukrainian regions as illegal, declared them invalid and urged all countries not to recognize any annexation of the territory claimed by Moscow. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 10-1 with China, India, Brazil and Gabon
EU calls for war crime tribunal over mass graves in Ukraine
The EU presidency on Saturday called for the establishment of an international tribunal for war crimes after new mass graves were found in Ukraine. "In the 21st century, such attacks against the civilian population are unthinkable and abhorrent," said Jan Lipavsky, foreign minister of the Czech Republic which holds the European
Vladimir Putin will eventually lose his war in Ukraine
Russia trying to steal nuclear plant: Rafael Grossi
The head of Ukraine’s atomic energy operator accused Russia on Thursday of trying to “steal” Europe’s largest nuclear plant by cutting it off from the Ukrainian electricity grid and leaving it on the brink of a radiation disaster. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been without an outside source of electricity