Disease threatens to worsen an already desperate situation in Fiji, an official warned yesterday, where thousands of lives have been devastated in the wake of the deadly super cyclone Yasa.

British and EU negotiators had dug in their heels and were each demanding more concessions from the other as post-Brexit trade talks dragged on into yesterday, deadlocked on fishing rights.

European countries started banning flights coming from the UK yesterday as government in London warned that a potent new strain of the virus was “out of control”.

Awami League lawmaker Aslamul Haque, also the owner of Maisha Group, has filed a petition with the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division seeking to stay a High Court verdict that allowed the authorities to conduct eviction drives and recover the land of the Buriganga from the possession of three companies of his group.

A former member of radical group Purba Bangla Communist Party was killed in a drive-by shooting Friday night in Phultala, Khulna.

Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) detained Md Nuruzzaman, chief executive officer of Rajshahi Zilla Parishad, from Chapainawabganj while he was carrying banned phensidyl in a government vehicle.

Police yesterday arrested a local Jubo League leader and his two associates over vandalising the sculpture of revolutionary freedom fighter Bagha Jatin at Kaya College in Kushtia’s Kumarkhali upazila.

The United States has authorised Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, paving the way for millions of doses of a second jab to be shipped across the hardest-hit country in the world.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today expresses his confidence that the bond and deep understanding that exist between Bangladesh and the Soviet Union will grow stronger in the years to come.

With positive branding, foreign investment flow will increase significantly in the country contributing to job creation, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said.

The lowest temperature, 6.6 degrees Celsius, was recorded in the country yesterday at Rajarhat of Kurigram, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

French authorities have charged and detained four Pakistanis suspected of links to a meat cleaver attack by a compatriot outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly that wounded two people, the national counter-terrorism prosecutor’s office said Friday.

Donald Trump’s outgoing administration is planning to close the two remaining US consulates in Russia, media reports said Friday, as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office amid high tensions with Moscow.

The devastation in Fiji following Cyclone Yasa was compared to a war zone yesterday as reconnaissance flights showed entire villages wiped out and authorities put the cost at hundreds of millions of dollars.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday told German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a videoconference call Turkey wants to turn over a new leaf with the European Union, the Turkish presidency said.

The incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden warned Friday of risks to national security after it said the Pentagon suddenly halted briefings for the transition team.

The percentage of the Covid-19 tests that come out positive continued to rise for the second consecutive day yesterday after it hit an eight-month low.

A severe variant of the coronavirus has been detected in South Africa which could explain the rapid spread of a second wave that affects younger people, the health minister said.

The World Health Organization and partners yesterday said that the Covax facility, created to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines worldwide, expected to begin delivering jabs early next year, as Moderna’s vaccine was set for imminent approval in the US.

Expatriates Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said he was ready to negotiate different issues with labour receiving countries to send abroad as many workers as possible at low cost.