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The South Asian nation has held its first general election since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies have secured a commanding majority in landmark national elections in the South Asian nation, 18 months after former leader Sheikh Hasina was forced out of office.The BNP, a staunch rival of Hasina’s Awami League party, which was barred from the February 12 elections, secured 212 out of 300 seats in Bangladesh’s parliament, the Jatiya Sangsad. A minimum of 151 is required for a simple majority. As the count continues, the party said it would form…

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) said the Trump administration’s actions and statements on voting were putting “democracy in jeopardy.” Host Jake Tapper said, “Earlier in the show, we played some sound from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem talking about making sure the right people are voting and electing the right leaders. Between that and the DOJ demanding voter information from states and the president saying he plans to implement voter ID requirements even without congressional approval. Are you worried as a governor about what is going to happen at the midterms?” Beshear said, “Well, it’s…

The EU needs to rapidly arm itself as the world enters a new era of great-power struggle, the German chancellor has claimed European nations have to accept that the post-Cold War liberal “rules-based international order” is no more, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told the Munich Security Conference on Friday. The EU and its members need to rapidly adapt to the new reality by arming themselves, he claimed.His words came as Berlin seeks to circumvent EU rules governing budget deficits and competition to save Germany’s flagging economy through a massive rearmament program. The bloc’s biggest economy plans to spend $582 billion…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said he did not have confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi. Host Martha Raddatz said, “Do you still have confidence in Pam Bondi as attorney general?” Massie said, “I don’t think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi. She she wasn’t confident enough to engage in anything but name calling and hearing. And so no, I don’t have confidence in her. She hasn’t got any sort of accountability there at the DOJ. When I asked her specifically who redacted Lesley Wexner’s name from the one document that mattered, she couldn’t give…

The US agency recently published a clip urging Chinese military officers to become informants China will take “all necessary measures” to fight infiltration and sabotage by foreign forces, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing has said, responding to a recent US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruitment ad targeting Chinese military personnel.The spy agency’s Mandarin-language video, published on its YouTube account on Thursday, urged officers and troops to leak information on top Chinese leaders or regarding sensitive military or technological fields.“China will take all necessary measures to resolutely combat infiltration and sabotage activities of foreign anti-China forces and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty,…

Keir Starmer’s appointment of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States, despite his known links to Jeffrey Epstein, is the “biggest political scandal of the century”. According to Nigel Farage, anyway. Sky News at least has the sense to phrase it as a question… Could Peter Mandelson be the biggest political scandal of the century? To which the obvious, facetious answer is “Which one?” And the more honest answer is “No, obviously not.” I don’t care if Lord Mandelson was passing sensitive information, I don’t care if Sir Keir knew or not and I don’t care who the unfortunate woman having to stand next to…

An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo proposes a sweeping “detention reengineering” initiative aimed at fixing the system’s most chronic failures — overcrowded facilities, slow transfers, and deportation backlogs that allow criminal aliens to cycle repeatedly through American communities. The proposal, backed by frontline ICE personnel and major law enforcement groups, would expand detention capacity, streamline processing, and accelerate removals of offenders who currently linger in local jails for weeks or walk free due to lack of space. The February 13 memo, marked “For Official Use Only” and published on the New Hampshire governor’s website, states that the initiative is…

Sunday, during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that the Trump administration was absolutely destroying the credibility of the Justice Department. When asked about a grand jury not indicting Democrats who made a video about military orders, Christie said, “Well, I want to put a couple things in perspective. Having done the job of U.S. attorney for seven years and seven years that I was U.S. attorney in New Jersey, and we were the third most productive district out of 93 in the country during those seven years. So we brought a lot…

The meeting of Kiev’s European sponsors “lacked substance” without the US secretary of state, officials told the FT US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has abruptly skipped a meeting on Ukraine on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference “at the last minute,” according to the Financial Times.The Berlin Format gathering on Friday was attended by Kiev’s European backers – including French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, as well as the heads of the European Commission, the European Council, and NATO – who are seeking to insert their vision of a “just peace deal” into the US-led negotiations…

Former President Barack Obama has weighed in on phenomena in the world’s skies that have perplexed observers since “flying saucers” were first reported after World War II. “Are aliens real?” YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama in an interview posted Saturday. “Uh, they’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” the former president responded. He then quickly addressed speculation around Nevada’s Area 51, a secretive military test site that has long been claimed to contain downed extraterrestrials and their aircraft, which are purportedly being reverse-engineered. “Uh, they’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama explained. “And they’re not being kept in…