Two ambulance drivers were detained for spreading rumours about a coronavirus infection in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country that borders China, Kazakh police said yesterday.

Thirty-six people have been killed in a suspected militia attack in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in violence since November, a local official said Wednesday.

Russia yesterday freed a US-Israeli woman jailed for drug trafficking after she was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin.

The UN confirmed a report Wednesday that it had suffered a cyberattack last year, including at its rights agency, but insisted the hackers had not accessed any sensitive information.

A suspected Hindu nationalist yesterday live-streamed himself minutes before opening fire on university students protesting against India’s new citizenship law in Delhi.

A Democratic push to force Republicans to accept witnesses at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the US Senate appeared to be flagging on Wednesday, raising the possibility he could be acquitted as early as Friday.

Grabbers occupy around 62,537 acres of khas land across the country, Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury told parliament yesterday.

A United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF) member was shot dead when UPDF men and their rivals were involved in a gun battle in Matiranga upazila yesterday morning, said police.

Indonesian authorities are offering a reward to anyone who can rescue a saltwater crocodile with a motorbike tyre stuck around its neck -- and survive.

Three people, including two alleged muggers, were killed in “shootouts” in the capital Dhaka and Jashore early yesterday.

Rony Hawladar, an SSC candidate from Gopalganj Sadar upazila, just returned home after attending private classes yesterday morning when a clash ensued just in front of his house.

In a 45-minute-long meeting with Bangabandhu at the Prime Minister’s official residence, the World Bank President Robert S.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the developed countries and development partners to come forward further to help countries that are vulnerable to climate change.

The International Court of Justice has asked The Gambia to file its initial pleadings by July 23 in the case against Myanmar.

Two girls -- a third-grader in Noakhali and a teenager in Gazipur -- were allegedly raped on Tuesday.

Repeated deployments by US special forces have affected discipline within the ranks, says a Pentagon report published Tuesday which called for changes in oversight.

The UN Security Council convened Tuesday to discuss the crisis in Yemen, amid growing concern over the deteriorating situation and calls for the parties to re-engage in the political process, diplomats said.

Indonesia said yesterday it has cut ties with the WWF as it accused the global conservation group of overstepping its mandate in the country and unfairly criticising efforts to extinguish out-of-control forest fires last year.

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to authorise sanctions against Chinese officials who interfere in the process of determining the Dalai Lama’s successor, raising pressure as the Tibetan spiritual leader approaches 85.

Iraq is considering a larger role for Nato at the expense of the US-led coalition, Iraqi and Western officials told AFP, after an American drone strike on Baghdad that sparked outrage.