A judge in the US state of Florida on Friday partially blocked a law requiring felons pay their fines before registering to vote, a decision with potential ramifications for next year’s presidential election.

An Iraqi man has been charged in Australia with people trafficking in connection with the drowning deaths of more than 350 asylum seekers in 2001, police said Saturday.

South Sudan’s exiled rebel leader Riek Machar arrived in Juba on Saturday in a bid to salvage a peace deal with less than a month to go until he is to form a government with President Salva Kiir.

The deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains an “urgent” global health emergency, The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday at its Emergency Committee meeting.

A New York court convicted the Honduran president’s brother of drug trafficking Friday, a verdict immediately rejected by the Central American leader while opponents called for his resignation.

Separatist Catalan leaders yesterday called on the Spanish government to enter into talks as Barcelona braced for fresh violence after days of clashes between police and protesters.

Turkish and Kurdish leaders accused each other of violating a US-brokered truce in northeastern Syria even as it appeared to be taking hold on its second day yesterday.

Militant outfits in the country are using online platforms to recruit fresh members by offering lucrative packages, said police.

Police yesterday recovered the bullet-hit body of an unidentified man, aged around 28, in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

While entering the Kejaura village in Sunamganj’s Derai upazila, this correspondent noticed some scattered bricks lying on a road and a burflower (Kadam) tree nearby.

Britain’s exit from the European Union hung on a knife-edge yesterday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrambled to persuade doubters to rally behind his last-minute European Union divorce deal in an extraordinary vote in parliament.

A woman found a one-month-old baby girl abandoned beside her home in Panchagarh town on Thursday night. Doctors said the baby is healthy.

New Zealand police yesterday announced the introduction of armed patrols in response to the Christchurch mosques massacre in which 51 Muslim worshippers were killed.

The rising defaults on loans poses the biggest risk for the Bangladesh economy that stands to grow at a remarkable pace, said the International Monetary Fund yesterday, raising the urgency level for the government to address the banking sector’s ills.

Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said they had unblocked popular online game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) hours after a top police official said it was blocked.

US President Donald Trump has awarded hosting of the next G7 summit to one of his own Florida golf clubs, the White House said on Thursday, sparking accusations of corruption from opposition lawmakers and ethics campaigners.

The United States yesterday imposed tariffs on a record $7.5-billion worth of European Union goods, despite threats of retaliation, with Airbus, French wine and Scottish whiskies among the high-profile targets.

Venezuela was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday with 105 votes and a round of applause, despite fierce lobbying by the United States and rights groups, and the late entry of Costa Rica as competition.

South Africa’s deputy president apologised Thursday for rolling blackouts that could pose a threat to the fragile economy of the continent’s most industrialised nation.

A member of the committee which selects the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday defended the controversial decision to give the award to Austrian author Peter Handke.