Zelenskyy to meet with Trump as efforts to end Russia-Ukraine war remain elusive

U.S. President Donald Trump will host his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Sunday (December 28, 2025) to try to close out a peace agreement that would end nearly four years…

Guinea security forces ‘neutralise’ armed group in gunfight

Guinean security forces neutralised an armed group in the capital, they said, which had “subversive intentions threatening national security”, according to an official statement, a day before the country holds…

Myanmar junta stages election after five years of civil war

Voting began Sunday (December 28, 2025) in Myanmar’s heavily restricted polls, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last…

Russia strikes Ukraine’s capital killing one, day before Zelenskyy-Trump meeting

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with ballistic missiles and drones on Saturday (December 27, 2025), killing at least one person and wounding 27, a day before talks between the leaders of…

Nasry Asfura: Angry tide in Honduras

Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar Nasry Asfura, a 67-year-old construction magnate and former Mayor of Honduras’s capital, Tegucigalpa, has emerged as the president-elect of the country after a long-drawn-out and contentious…

Tarique Rahman: The prince who came in from the cold

Stepping out of the wood-panelled VVIP arrival lounge of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on December 25, Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), walked to…