President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday expressed “full solidarity” with Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) during a meeting in Istanbul, his office said.

A couple was found dead at their house in Gobindapur village of Chuadanga’s Damurhuda on Sunday evening.

The number of Covid-19 tests has decreased by 9.05 percent last week compared to the previous [38th] epidemiological week, said a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

President Donald Trump’s condition is improving as he is being treated for Covid-19 at a military hospital, and he could return to the White House as early as today, the doctors leading his treatment said yesterday.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced two house helps to death in a case filed over the killing of former principal of Eden Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin in February last year.

A human skeleton has been recovered from a makeshift wall at a six-storey building in the capital’s Shewrapara area.

Two High Court judges have operated a bench on Saturday night and directed Dhanmondi police to immediately take necessary steps to ensure that two minor grandchildren of former attorney general KS Nabi can enter and live in his Dhanmondi residence in the capital.

The families of all six convicts, including Ayesha Siddika Minni, in the Rifat murder case are preparing to file appeals with the High Court against their death sentence, as a copy of the verdict and other documents reached the HC from a Barguna court yesterday.

Bangladeshi migrants working in Kuwait want the foreign minister and foreign secretary, who are visiting the Gulf country, to talk to the new emir about their challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic and the issue of workers’ visa cancellations in connection to the irregularities of MP Shahid Islam Papul.

Archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that were buried more than 2,500 years ago.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman orders the army and the navy to rush to border areas to help the civil administration prevent smuggling.

Two Rohingyas were killed in a reported gunfight between two rival groups in a camps in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The Criminal Investigation Department will issue a Red Notice through Interpol by this week for Bangladeshi human traffickers thought to be responsible for the killing of 26 people of the country in Libya earlier this year.

Rescue services stepped up their search efforts in southwestern France yesterday after floods cut off several villages and killed two people in Italy, with eight still missing in France.

Bangladesh Truck-Covered Van Owners-Workers Coordination Council yesterday called a 48-hour strike across the country from October 12 to press home their nine-point demand, including amendment to the Road Transport Act.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday wrote to US President Donald Trump sending a message of sympathy after he and First Lady Melania Trump were diagnosed with Covid-19.

Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary election got underway yesterday with observers and smaller parties warning that vote buying could spoil a rare competitive election in former Soviet Central Asia.

Sudan’s government and rebel groups yesterday inked a landmark peace deal aimed at ending decades of war in which hundreds of thousands died.

Three advisers to Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli yesterday said they had tested positive for Covid-19, which has claimed the lives of 528 people in the country.

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has already been convicted of sex crimes in New York, was charged Friday in Los Angeles with six new counts over the alleged rapes of two women.