News stories by Peter Custers

LEIDEN, Netherlands, Jul 27 (IPS) - Which story line sounds the more credible – that linking the rebel movement ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) to policies pursued by Iran or that linking the Sunni extremist force to Iran's adversary Saudi Arabia?

SECUNDERABAD, India, May 27 (IPS) - Held in nine rounds over a period of several weeks, India's national elections have been described as the most massive exercise in vote-casting worldwide.

DHAKA, Mar 03 (IPS) - Is Bangladesh just trying to process its dark legacy, the trauma of the genocide that took place during the country´s liberation war in 1971? Or is something more afoot?

, Jan 28 (IPS) - Few critical questions have been raised so far by Bangladesh's intellectual community over the deal towards construction of two nuclear power plants in Rooppur, 180km from capital Dhaka.