Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, an ardent conservative who worked to forge a stronger military alliance with the United States, died on Friday at the age of 101, an official at his son’s office said.

French prosecutors called Friday for 20 suspects to go on trial over the massacre of 130 people by suicide bombers and gunmen in Paris four years ago.

A South African court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma’s attempts to appeal against a corruption trial in which he faces charges related to a 1990s arms deal involving France’s Thales.

New Zealand announced extra aid for Samoa Friday as the Pacific nation’s measles epidemic raced past 3,000 cases and experts warned the number could double before the crisis was over.

A worker of the under -construction Payra Thermal Power Plant in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali died as an iron pipe fell on him from a crane yesterday.

The Brunei authorities have deported nine Bangladeshis in the past one month, during a crackdown on labour exploitation and human trafficking.

Climate negotiations opening next week in Madrid must prioritise funding for nations already dealing with the cost of drought, floods and superstorms made worse by rising temperatures, more than 150 environmental groups said yesterday.

Business owners in Chattogram port feared that bulk cargo management would be disrupted, putting an impact on the supply chain, as a faction of water transport workers announced work abstention for an indefinite period since yesterday midnight.

Brac founder and Chair Emeritus Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was admitted to a city hospital on Wednesday evening after he fell sick, said a Brac statement yesterday.

The body of Babulal, who was killed in an airstrike in Libya on November 18, reached home yesterday.

Rakibul Hasan Regan, a death row convict in the Holey Artisan café attack case, carried the prayer cap emblazoned with the IS logo to the court from jail, police found in primary investigation.

Despite incurring losses, the Rangpur Sugar Mills Ltd in Gaibandha is increasing production to make sugar, a move which according to the Santals is aimed at stopping them from returning to their ancestral land.

Bangladesh last year had 70 percent less deaths in terrorist attacks than the previous year, says a new global study.

Turkey signed a military deal late Wednesday with Libya’s UN-recognised government following a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, his office said.

Water transport workers are going to start a countrywide indefinite strike from early Saturday to press home their 11-point demand, including implementation of the pay scale of 2016.

Fifteen loaded cargo vessels have remained stranded in the Padma and the Jamuna for at least four days due to poor navigability.

China yesterday threatened retaliation against Washington after US President Donald Trump signed legislation supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters, just as the world’s top two economies edge towards a trade truce.

Prices of onion at Khatunganj, one of the biggest wholesale essentials markets, saw a downward trend in the last three days as supply increased.

Chile’s national police committed “serious human rights violations” as weeks of violent demonstrations across the South American country claimed 25 lives, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in a report calling for reform of the force.

Beijing yesterday accused developed countries including the US of doing too little to curb global warming, ahead of a UN summit discussing controversial issues including climate compensation.