Israel plans to revoke the media credentials of Al Jazeera TV journalists, close its Jerusalem bureau and pull the Qatar-based station's broadcasts from local cable and satellite providers, Communications Minister Ayoub Kara said yesterday.

Eight illegal hill dwellers were detained yesterday after they went to the Chittagong deputy commissioner with an application seeking electricity supply in their area.

Libya's coastguard intercepted 137 migrants including five women and three children yesterday as they attempted to reach Europe, a migration official told AFP.

Syrian government troops advanced overnight against the Islamic State group in the country's north and centre, drawing closer to the key battleground of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said.

Afghan intelligence officials said yesterday they seized a truck in Kabul carrying more than 16 tonnes of explosives hidden in boxes marked as poultry feed, months after a truck bomb killed about 150 people.

A fire erupted in a residential highrise in Dubai yesterday, authorities said, days after a blaze tore through a tower across the street. Dubai Civil Defence said yesterday it had put out the "minor fire" that broke out on a balcony in the 78-storey Tiger Tower, which op

Three eminent Supreme Court lawyers and Awami League leaders met Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha at his SC office yesterday.

Two years have gone by but investigators are yet to complete their probe into the killing of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.

Arabian civil aviation authority to operate 12 extra hajj flights that might clear the backlog of pilgrims who had earlier missed their flights due to visa complications.

Doctors yesterday found marks of injuries on the head and throat of the housemaid who died mysteriously in the capital's Banasree area on Friday.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “shootout” between his cohorts and police in Nurpur village under Akhaura upazila early yesterday.

At least 163 of the 171-member “Hajj Assistant Delegation” the religious affairs ministry sent to Saudi Arabia to help a Bangladeshi medical team treat pilgrims have no background in medicine.

Islami Bank Bangladesh has sent a clarification of a news titled “Islami Bank: Profit falls as bad debts rise,” published in The Daily Star on Friday.

The United States announced Friday it would still take part in international climate change negotiations in order to protect its interests, despite its planned withdrawal from the Paris accord on global warming.

Venezuela's dissident attorney general yesterday said her offices were "under siege" by troops, as a new loyalist assembly was about to start work to bolster the policies of President Nicolas Maduro and counter his foes.

Iran criticised the position adopted by European governments against its missile tests, during a visit by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Saturday.

A US federal appeals court on Friday tossed out the murder conviction of a Blackwater security guard who was serving a life sentence for a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 14 Iraqis dead.

Even though China's size is approximately thrice of India, India's population could surpass that of China around 2024, two years later than previously estimated, according to a new UN forecast.

The Israeli army arrested a Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament at his home in the occupied West Bank overnight, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said on Friday.

Liza Masri had learned as a young girl during the bloodiest days of the second intifada to fear the soldiers patrolling her neighborhood in the besieged West Bank city of Nablus.