The novel coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need to combat the threat to human health posed by the illegal trafficking of wild animals, according to a UN report published Friday.

The UN Security Council failed to find a consensus on prolonging cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria on Friday after Russia and China vetoed an extension and members rejected a counter proposal by Moscow.

Five people were killed in an attack on a church west of Johannesburg in the early hours of yesterday, South African police said, with some of the attackers taking hostages who were later freed.

A woman was killed and her four-year-old son was injured in a gunfight between members of Bangladesh Army and Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) in Rowangchhari upazila of Bandarban on Friday, said a press release issued by the army.

The prime accused in a gang rape case was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Noakhali early yesterday.

Once again, ahead of Eid-ul-Azha when huge sales of sacrificial animals take place across the country, counterfeit note forgery syndicates have targeted the cattle markets like they do every year.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today attends his office at the secretariat after six days. Bangabandhu was suddenly taken ill with pain in the abdomen on July 5. He resumed his work at the Gono Bhaban, his official residence, on July 10.

A Bangladeshi man was “shot dead” and another injured allegedly by a group of villagers inside Indian territory near the Utma border in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila yesterday noon.

The World Health Organization has released new guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge some reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes Covid-19, but stopped short of confirming that the virus spreads through the air.

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon increased by a record 25 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2020, according to official data released yesterday.

Two people were arrested on charges of raping a minor girl in Mymensingh yesterday.

California is suing US President Donald Trump’s administration over its policy threatening the visas of foreign students whose courses move online due to coronavirus, officials said Thursday.

During the six months in office, a very brief period considering the grisly antecedents, the present government under the leadership of Bangabandhu Shiekh Mujibur Rahman has attained remarkable success in all fields.

A notorious criminal, accused in at least seven cases including of murder and rape, was killed in a “gunfight” between two groups of drug peddlers in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, said police.

Water level in all major rivers started to rise again yesterday, only two days after the initial flood water began to recede.

The UN will announce the results of a vote on a resolution to prolong cross-border humanitarian aid to war-torn Syria, the authorization for which expires that evening.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said yesterday that it was investigating “massive fraud” across France by people falsely claiming temporary wage assistance for employees laid off during the coronavirus lockdown.

The world is entering a military “second drone age” with uncontrolled proliferation and no standards governing their use, a United Nations expert told the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday.

Malaysia is planning to introduce e-wages system, which will alert the government in case foreign workers are not paid, as part of its new measures to protect the migrants.

The Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) claimed to have arrested an active member of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Dumuria area of Khulna early yesterday.