Turkey’s defence minister said that any attack by eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on its personnel in the North African country would be met with force.

Spain’s coalition government is deeply split over a proposal to shorten the work week to four days to fight high unemployment sparked by the coronavirus pandemic.

Israel yesterday began its third coronavirus lockdown, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced optimism that a “world record” vaccination drive will restore a degree of normality within weeks.

Boko Haram jihadists have seized around 40 loggers and killed three others in northeast Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, militia sources and residents told AFP on Saturday.

Three people were killed and another three wounded Saturday in the US state of Illinois when a shooter opened fire at a bowling alley, police said.

National flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines got a new Dash 8-400 aircraft to help it expand operations in the short-range, including domestic and South Asian destinations.

Twenty-four municipalities will go to polls today using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) amid confusion among voters about uses of the machines.

Authorities searched a house in the Nashville area yesterday as they probed the large blast that ripped through the downtown of the southern US city on Christmas morning, injuring several people and damaging dozens of buildings.

Seven Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed by militants in an attack on a check post in the country’s restive southwest, the military said yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to freeze 670 bank accounts and seize 92 deeds of immovable properties of lawmaker Shahid Islam Papul and three of his family members in cases filed over corruption and money laundering.

The High Court has issued eight directives for authorities concerned of the government to ensure security, peace and decorum in and outside the jails and to prevent the supply of narcotics in prisons across the country.

The Covid-19 vaccine developed by the British drugs group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has achieved a “winning formula” for efficacy, the company’s chief executive said yesterday.

Delhi Police has arrested a fugitive Bangladeshi national who fled to India after he was sentenced to death for killing a man in Bagerhat in 2005.

Climate migration in Bangladesh could increase by up to seven-fold, displacing three million people from their homes by 2050 due to climate disasters, a new study found.

A big group of volunteers belonging to Concern, a relief organisation of Ireland, who are now working in Bangladesh calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono Bhaban today to convey New Year’s greeting to him.

Turkey’s Defence Minister Hulusi Akar made a surprise trip to Libya yesterday flanked by top military officers to inspect his country’s troops, the ministry said.

Russia’s FSB security service yesterday said it had foiled an attack planned by a cell loyal to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in the country’s unstable southern republic of Dagestan, arresting four people.

A Russian historian and Napoleon enthusiast was sentenced to 12-and-a-half-years in prison for murdering and dismembering his young lover last year.

A fire at a hospital north of Cairo yesterday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said.

Three UN peacekeepers have been killed by unidentified combatants in the Central African Republic, the United Nations said, as the country prepares for a general election and fighting continues between rebels and government forces.