The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, part of a bid to undo his Republican predecessor’s hardline immigration policies.

A vessel carrying 422 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya has been given permission to dock in Italy after issuing an urgent appeal for shelter from a looming storm, its operator said yesterday.

Tens of thousands of people yesterday rallied across Myanmar to denounce last week’s coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the biggest protests since the 2007 Saffron Revolution that helped lead to democratic reforms.

Two cases were filed early yesterday over the attacks on an assistant commissioner (land) and the workers of an under-construction community clinic in Katiadi, Kishoreganj.

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine fails to prevent mild and moderate cases of the South African coronavirus strain, according to research reported in the Financial Times.

Fifteen more people died of Covid-19 and 292 others got infected by the deadly virus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

Editors Guild Bangladesh, an organisation of editors, yesterday said Qatar-based channel Al Jazeera has aired the report “All the Prime Minister’s Men” to serve “special political purposes”, without following ethics and regulations of journalism.

Burglars made away with around 500 tolas of gold ornaments of a jewellery shop and took around Tk 5 lakh from the shop and three others at Rapa Plaza in the capital’s Dhanmondi early yesterday.

An independent mayoral candidate of Madaripur’s Kalkini municipality was picked up by police and then sent to Dhaka to meet a top leader of the ruling Awami League, the candidate alleged.

More than 125 people were missing in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam yesterday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream.

The High Court yesterday said that the people of the country want the trial of the gang-rape at Sylhet’s MC College to be finished and justice be ensured quickly.

Nearly 26 months after joining the party, Reza Kibria resigned from Gonoforum and its post of general secretary.

The family of Shyamacharan Barman, a fisherman brutally murdered in Sunamganj’s Dharmapasha upazila last month, fear they will not get justice as they say a local lawmaker is influencing the case.

A four-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped by one of her neighbours in Jashore’s Chaugachha upazila yesterday afternoon.

A delegation of Bangladesh Railway (BR) will visit India this month to discuss preparations for introducing a passenger train service between Dhaka and Siliguri, officials said.

China’s Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year.

Libya yesterday embarked on a new phase of its post-Kadhafi transition after a unity government was selected to lead the country until December elections following a decade of chaos.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh was preparing to sue Al Jazeera channel over airing the report “All the Prime Minister’s Men” with inaccurate information.

A father and his daughter were crushed to death by a truck after it ploughed into their roadside house in Pabna on Friday night.

A group of people allegedly attacked the assistant commissioner (land) when they surrounded the village home of Health Secretary Abdul Mannan at Chandpur village in Katiadi upazila of Kishoreganj yesterday afternoon.