French police clashed Saturday with anti-government protesters seeking to inject fresh momentum into demonstrations calling for social justice and the ouster of President Emmanuel Macron.

A typhoon pounded North Korea on Saturday, killing five people and injuring three, state news agency KCNA reported yesterday.

Days before the first round of Tunisia’s presidential election, the fledgling democracy on Saturday began three nights of televised debates between the candidates, a rare event in the Arab world.

Sudan’s ousted leader Omar al-Bashir gave more than $5 million to a paramilitary group, a defence witness said Saturday, apparently backing claims made by the autocrat at a previous session of his graft trial.

At least 18 people were injured after an explosion caused a section of ceiling and walls of a restaurant to collapse on them in Gazipur’s Boardbazar area early Sunday.

The Jatiya Party is considering curtailing the special powers of its chairman mentioned in the party charter.

The Israeli army targeted Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to a drone attack from the Palestinian enclave, the military said.

A man was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Mymensingh Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Former caretaker government adviser Barrister Mainul Hosein yesterday walked out of jail on bail four days after a Dhaka court sent him to jail in a case filed by journalist Masuda Bhatti for defaming her in October last year.

Hong Kong police yesterday fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the upmarket Causeway Bay shopping district, after demonstrators had rallied at the US Consulate calling for help in bringing democracy to the Chinese-ruled city.

A Tk 453-crore literacy project meant to benefit 45 lakh people has suffered setbacks for fund crisis, a deviation from the original plan and wrong selection of beneficiaries.

Police are yet to determine if the unnamed accused in a case filed over raping a woman in Jashore on early Tuesday is SI Khairul.

Sometimes he would stand outside and sometimes inside ATM booths as if he was there to help those in need of support during transactions.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir last night said his party has decided to join the upcoming upazila parishad elections.

A stringent security measure will be in place across the Old Dhaka’s Hossaini Dalan area on Tuesday for peaceful observance of the holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain (RA), grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH).

The logo on ex-FARC combatant Davinson Lopez’s tee-shirt says it all, and it’s a message Colombians desperately want to hear: “Our only weapon is peace.”

When anti-corruption activist Yevgeny Kurakin went to make an official complaint about authorities destroying a park in his sleepy town near Moscow, he was arrested in the prosecutor’s office. Three months later, he is still behind bars.

A dozen international media organisations, including AFP, have signed up to a new initiative launched by the BBC to fight misinformation. AFP said in a statement on Saturday it has joined the BBC initiative, alongside organisations such as the European Broadcasting Union,

Italy has issued arrest warrants for 10 people, including an imam, suspected of financing terrorism, prosecutors said Saturday.

British lawmakers are preparing legal action in case Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to defy legislation compelling him to seek a further delay to Brexit, opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday.