Protesters blocked several main roads across Lebanon on Friday as unprecedented demonstrations against a political elite accused of corruption and incompetence entered their fourth month.

Colombia’s army used American foreign aid money for an illegal domestic spying program that targeted lawmakers and other public figures, two opposition senators who say they were victims of the espionage have told US congress.

One of China’s top historic attractions issued an apology after two women drove an SUV into the Forbidden City in Beijing and posed for pictures when it was meant to be closed to the public.

Dozens of trucks have started dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of US government measures to protect Florida’s tourist destinations against the effects of climate change.

Turkey’s state news agency has published images of two men accused of helping fugitive businessman Carlos Ghosn escape via an Istanbul airport, as he fled a corruption trial in Japan.

A Japanese nuclear reactor near a fault line must remain shut because of the risk of its being struck by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, a high court ordered yesterday.

The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove US President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday even as a congressional watchdog found that the White House broke the law by withholding security aid for Ukraine approved by Congress.

Iran’s supreme leader said yesterday that demonstrations at home over its accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner were unrepresentative of the Iranian people and accused the country’s enemies of exploiting it for propaganda purposes.

Prayers and sermons marked the first day of the second phase of Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest congregations of the Muslims after the Hajj, as it began on the bank of the Turag in Tongi yesterday morning.

An Indian court yesterday ordered that four men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus would now be hanged on February 1.

At least 109 Bangladeshi migrant workers have been deported from Saudi Arabia.

Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah has urged the Asean to address the “civil war” in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to find a long-term solution to the Rohingya crisis.

The World Health Organization warned yesterday that a dire lack of new antibiotics was threatening efforts to curb the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, which kill tens of thousands of people each year.

Four people, including two siblings, have been killed in separate road accidents in the capital since Thursday night.

Police on Thursday night arrested seven people, including a Chhatra League leader, over stalking of a schoolgirl in Raighati area of the district’s Mohanpur upazila.

Britain’s finance ministry yesterday said it had added Lebanon’s entire Hezbollah movement to its list of terrorist groups subject to asset freezing.

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a former minister who allegedly recorded 100,000 phone calls, the sometimes lewd and compromising contents of which were leaked on social media.

The FBI arrested three alleged members of the white extremist group “The Base” Thursday, saying they accumulated ammunition and built a functioning automatic weapon, days before a Virginia rally against gun controls.

More than 1,000 Honduran migrants broke through a police barrier on the border with Guatemala on Thursday in a bid to join hundreds of others heading for the United States.

Islamic State-aligned jihadists have released five local aid workers abducted last month in violence-wracked northeastern Nigeria, security sources and one of those freed said yesterday.