In the hushed corridors of diplomacy – where protocol, politeness and strategic smiles usually prevail – a far darker game appears to be unfolding in Moscow. Behind embassy walls, under the cover of diplomatic immunity and bilateral cooperation, two foreign intelligence apparatuses are allegedly operating secretive cells with objectives that go far beyond routine statecraft. [...]

An official response to a parliamentary inquiry has reignited debate over Turkey’s controversial citizenship policies, revealing that foreign nationals with serious criminal allegations and international alerts have nonetheless been granted Turkish nationality in recent years.
The written reply, signed by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya and dated December 12, 2025, outlines the formal vetting procedures applied to [...]

Politics, if it is to mean anything at all, must eventually confront reality. Campaign slogans dissolve quickly in the acid of governance. Electoral mandates are not trophies; they are burdens. And for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), fresh from political resurgence, the burdens are formidable.
Mr. Tarique Rahman stands at the threshold of power at a [...]

There’s a peculiar irony in watching revolutionaries (self-styled or otherwise) commit the very sins they ostensibly rose to combat. Throughout history, from the French Terror to the Bolshevik purges, we’ve witnessed how the intoxication of power transforms liberators into vandals, and vengeance into vandalism. Bangladesh, it seems, is learning this lesson anew, and the wreckage [...]

A fresh wave of mafia-style shootings in Turkey has once again cast a spotlight on fugitive crime boss Sedat Peker, who has been living abroad for several years. Despite being the subject of arrest warrants circulated through INTERPOL and facing multiple criminal charges in Turkey, Peker remains outside the reach of Turkish law enforcement. From [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often spoken of building “people-to-people” bridges with Bangladesh. It is a noble phrase. But diplomacy, like politics, eventually runs into arithmetic. For more than a decade, New Delhi invested heavily (politically, diplomatically, even emotionally) in its partnership with Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League. But, in Bangladesh’s 13th parliamentary election, the [...]

Terrified by the likelihood of losing the Republican majority in the House and facing the prospect of impeachment, Trump is determined to steal the midterm election by any means, however menacing or unconstitutional they may be, to deprive the Democrats of their nearly assured victory. The Democrats must be fully prepared to push back against [...]

Recently, elections were held in Bangladesh, and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a landslide victory. The vote was highly significant, coming after the July 2024 uprising that ended nearly 15 years of uninterrupted rule by Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League. The polls tested whether protest-driven movements, especially among young voters, could convert street momentum into stable [...]

Brazil and Russia have just signed a declaration reaffirming their commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Such declaration emerged from renewed bilateral talks covering topics such as the nuclear fuel cycle, regulatory cooperation – plus modernizing the legal framework governing nuclear collaboration between the two countries. This matters because those discussions were embedded in a [...]

There are newspapers, and then there are institutions. The former report events; the latter shape how those events are understood. Blitz belongs to the second category.
To call Blitz merely a newspaper is to miss its larger function. It has, over decades, evolved into something rarer in today’s fragmented media landscape: a global opinion-maker. Not because [...]