Twitter and Facebook suspended the accounts Friday of 16 allies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after a Supreme Court judge ordered them blocked as part of a probe into an alleged disinformation campaign.

Serbian police have arrested a group suspected of an online scam worth more than $70 million following a joint investigation with the FBI, the interior ministry announced Friday.

Human Rights Watch has called for Japan to immediately cancel plans to donate money to the Myanmar police to purchase vehicles and communications equipment, saying that the force has a well-documented record of serious human rights violations, including those committed against the Rohingyas.

A German woman kidnapped in Baghdad earlier this week was freed overnight, Iraqi officials said yesterday, without providing additional details. “Security forces have freed activist Hella Mewis,” Iraq’s military spokesman Yahya Rasool said in a statement.

Khondkar Zakaria Mahmud (Bachchu), son of late Khondkar Masudar Rahman, a resident of 8 Dutabash Road, Baridhara, Dhaka, passed away at a Thai hospital on July 23. He was 74.

A female union parishad chairman and a security staffer at her office were arrested on charge of misappropriating rice meant for poor people in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila yesterday.

Though it is a week away from Eid-ul-Azha, trading of sacrificial animals has only begun in the city’s sole permanent cattle market in Gabtoli.

A show-cause letter was issued to the doctor of a health centre in Jhalakathi over his Facebook posts yesterday.

The several species of crocodiles plying rivers and brackish byways in the Americas -- from Florida to Peru -- all came from Africa, according to a study published Thursday.

Progress has been made by the border troops of both India and China to disengage and ease the situation on the ground, the Chinese foreign ministry said yesterday at the end of the latest round of diplomatic talks between the two countries.

The devastating economic toll the coronavirus crisis is taking around the world could spark huge waves of fresh migration once borders reopen, the head of the Red Cross warned in an interview.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is leaving for London tomorrow afternoon. He will undergo an operation for the removal of a stone from his gallbladder.

The Unicef has said more than 2.4 million people, including around 1.3 million children in Bangladesh, are estimated to be affected by flooding.

Many flood-hit people are passing their days in starvation as the government’s relief allocation is insufficient, victims said.

Arif Motahar, the founding chairman of Hotel Regency, was recently diagnosed with Covid-19 though he has not left his hotel for the last two months.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday denounced what he called Turkey’s “violation” of the sovereignty of Greece and Cyprus, as tensions mount between Athens and Ankara.

Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed was handed to Rab yesterday after the elite force was given charge of investigating a case filed over forging Covid-19 test reports.

Donald Trump has divulged details of a cognitive test he “aced” -- including a five-word memory challenge he said proved he had the “mental stamina” to lead the US.

An AL leader was hacked to death on Wednesday night in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj.

Nearly three billion of the world’s poorest people should receive a temporary basic income to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, a United Nations body said.