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Bangladesh on Thursday held its first general election since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted by violent riots in August 2024. Hasina supporters regard the election as tainted, or completely illegitimate, because her party has been outlawed and the former PM was sentenced to death in absentia. Hasina was one of the leaders toppled by the “Gen Z uprisings” last year, in which large protests led by students and young people revolted against entrenched governments, usually motivated by allegations of corruption. The movement was notable for its international momentum, as protesters in each country studied what the others were doing,…

Four hundred billion dollars of pharmaceutical manufacturing is headed to the U.S. thanks to the Trump administration’s policies, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Wednesday at a policy discussion hosted by Breitbart News. “We’re gonna get cheaper drugs to America, and they’re gonna be made here as well. I expect we’re gonna have $400 billion of onshoring of pharmaceuticals. We’re going to onshore, we’re going to figure out how to onshore generics as well,” Lutnick explained. Lutnick described the United States as a dominant force in global pharmaceutical markets due to its spending power. “Generally speaking for name brand drugs, Ozempic,…

A newborn baby was found dead near a dumpster in south Bakersfield, California, on Monday morning, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.  “The baby was found near a dumpster behind a local business complex at Panama Lane and H Street. Police pronounced the newborn dead at the scene. Investigators say the baby’s mother, described as transient, is currently hospitalized as authorities investigate,” 23ABC News Bakersfield reported.  California has a law called Safe Surrender Baby that allows parents to legally and confidentially surrender a newborn up to three days old to hospitals and fire stations.  Erin Rodgers, the executive director of…

President Donald Trump’s nominee for a high-ranking State Department post told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday he will not stop making posts and statements as he waits for congressional confirmation. Members from both parties on the committee grilled Jeremy Carl, who the White House tapped to serve as assistant secretary of state for International Organizations, during a confirmation hearing, over a string of comments Democrats call antisemitic and racist that have surfaced in recent months. “I greatly understand the importance of restraint and conduct,” said Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank with…

Chief adviser of the interim government Muhammad Yunus has pledged a peaceful transfer of power in Dhaka Bangladesh is voting in its 13th general elections on Thursday, a year and a half after an uprising led to the ouster of the Awami League government headed by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.A referendum on constitutional and institutional reforms is also being held in the South Asian country.There are 127.7 million registered voters in Bangladesh; about 56 million, roughly 44% of the electorate, are between 18 and 37. Nearly 5 million are heading to the polls for the first time.The 15-year reign…

President Donald Trump invited Argentina’s Javier Milei and other allied regional heads of state to a summit on March 7 Summit to discuss stopping China’s encroachment in the region, Argentine outlets reported on Wednesday. Official Argentine government sources told the newspapers Clarín and La Nación that the summit will take place on Miami, Florida. In addition to Milei, the sources said that President Trump also invited Paraguay’s Santiago Peña, Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, and Honduras’s recently-inaugurated President Nasry Asfura to join him on the March 7 event — all of whom lead governments with friendly ties with the United…

Legacy political parties and media organisations exploded in fits of fury after one of Britain’s wealthiest men called out the country being “colonised” by migrants and the unsustainable cost of welfarism, while Brexit’s Nigel Farage said the analysis was correct. Chemical engineer, businessman, and Manchester United Football Club co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who would be one of Britain’s richest men were he not a tax exile from the UK’s punitive system of wealth redistribution, has said the UK “has got lots of problems”, including “the economy, crime, education, health. It’s all not in a great place at the moment”. Speaking…

President Donald Trump is deporting hundreds of thousands of criminal migrants, and national crime rates are dropping fast, but the elite media sees no connection whatsoever. “Crime plunges in major cities despite Trump’s crackdown rhetoric,” establishment outlet Axios.com declared on social media early Wednesday. “The bottom line: Experts aren’t sure why violent crime continues to fall,” said the linked report. “This ridiculous framing is why Americans don’t trust the media,” responded White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, adding: President Trump securing the border, mobilizing federal law enforcement to arrest violent criminals, and deporting the worst of the worst illegal aliens is EXACTLY…

Lawmakers are heading for the exits following a failed Senate vote Thursday, all but guaranteeing the Department of Homeland Security shuts down early Saturday morning. The funding lapse, which will hit parts of DHS harder than others, comes as the White House and congressional Democrats have failed to move closer to a deal after trading proposals to rein in immigration enforcement practices in the wake of two high-profile shootings in Minneapolis. Democrats called the latest offer from the White House insufficient Thursday and are expected to send a counteroffer. “Democrats have been very clear: We will not support an extension…

After last August’s meeting between the Russian and American presidents in Alaska, a new phrase entered diplomatic circulation: the “spirit of Anchorage.” The substance of the talks was never officially disclosed and can only be reconstructed from selective leaks. The form, however, was striking: a personal greeting, an honor guard, a shared limousine. Symbolism mattered. It was meant to signal seriousness.Yet the question remains: what exactly was born in Anchorage? And does it belong in the lineage of earlier diplomatic “spirits” that once defined entire eras?The term itself is not new. Before Anchorage, there was the “spirit of Yalta,” the…