Cameroon launched a national dialogue on Monday to end a separatist conflict in the country’s anglophone provinces but hopes of a breakthrough were dimmed as key rebel leaders refused to participate.

Two suspected Rohingya drug dealers were killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince warned in an interview yesterday that oil prices could spike to “unimaginably high numbers” if the world doesn’t come together to deter Iran, but said he preferred a political solution to a military one.

The hillocks at the centuries-old Tarapur Tea Estate, a Debottor (endowed) property in Sylhet, are being razed and grabbed by some locals. After the estate remained illegally occupied by industrialist Ragib Ali and his son Abdul Hye for decades, it was returned to the shebait

Two real estate businessmen landed in jail yesterday, a day after police arrested them on charge of raping a woman at an office in the city’s Dhanmondi area.

The government is planning to introduce robotics at the secondary level in schools on a pilot basis from next year in an effort to equip young learners for the technology-driven world.

Some 60 people were killed in mob beatings in the last nine months, says Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). Of them, 17 were killed in July alone, said the rights body.

Officer-in-Charge of Paltan Police Station Mahmudul Haque has been suspended following allegations of rape.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she wanted a peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis evading confrontation with anybody over the issue.

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has doubled the entrance fee for Sadarghat and other major launch terminals in the country.

Iran said on Monday that it is on track to create a new oil terminal on the Sea of Oman that would open a new export route for its crude and allow tankers to bypass the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Two suspected Rohingya drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A Uighur scholar imprisoned in China since 2014 was jointly awarded a top European human rights prize on Monday, an accolade likely to draw the ire of Beijing.

Donald Trump’s administration is amping up an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, The Washington Post reported Saturday, breathing new life into a pet issue used by the president to rail against his opponent during the 2016 elections.

French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday by nearly a 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in the southwest city of Toulouse.

The bodies of seven Moroccans were recovered close to Casablanca Saturday after their boat was shipwrecked trying to reach Spain, Moroccan officials said.

Uttam Barua, the Buddhist youth whose Facebook page image was doctored with an anti-Islam post to incite the 2012 Ramu attack, is still missing.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot a Bangladeshi cattle trader in Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi upazila early yesterday.

Wary of international interference, Myanmar insisted Saturday it wants Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh repatriated to their former homes so they can live in a “more conducive environment” than the one they left.

Almost a month after the formation of a “high level” taskforce, initiated to curb road accidents and bring discipline to the transport section, the government is yet to issue a circular or gazette in this regard.