Kazakhstan’s president yesterday called for an easing of restrictions on peaceful demonstrations, three months after thousands were detained at opposition protests in the authoritarian country.

The government yesterday made Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mohammad Abul Kalam officer on special duty and attached him to the textiles and jute ministry, according to a circular of the public administration ministry.

An Afghan asylum-seeker who killed a man and stabbed several others in the French city of Lyon sparked a row about immigration on Sunday as new details emerged about his rampage.

An alleged drug peddler and a suspected auto-rickshaw thief were killed in so-called gunfights with Rapid Action Battalion and detectives in Sylhet and Mymensingh yesterday.

Japan will launch a special police unit equipped with submachine guns and helicopters to patrol disputed isles in the East China Sea -- a source of tension between Tokyo and Beijing, according to police and media.

Southern African nations are threatening to quit the global wildlife trade regulator after it refused to relax restrictions on trade in ivory and rhino horn and imposed a near total ban on zoos taking African elephants captured in the wild.

Germany’s far-right AfD party was yesterday hoping for strong gains in elections in two ex-communist states, potentially shaking Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fragile coalition government.

A journalist was shot dead in northwest Honduras Saturday, the 79th killed since 2001 in the Central American country, according to a human rights group.

UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday promised continued blue helmet support for the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo fighting an array of armed groups.

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said yesterday that it launched air strikes against a Huthi military target south of the capital Sanaa, in an attack the rebels alleged killed dozens of people.

Mohammad Shahabuddin used to be a farmer in Kutupalong area of Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar. He won a national award for farming on four acres of land he had rented for 30 years from a local mosque.

MM Vegetable Oil Products Ltd, a subsidiary of Mostafa Group of Industries, has allegedly misappropriated around Tk 174 crore from Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd using fake documents.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam state is an internal issue of India, said Obaidul Quader, general secretary of the ruling Awami League, yesterday.

Myanmar said its military was conducting a rare court martial following a probe into alleged mass graves in crisis-hit Rakhine state, two years after a bloody crackdown drove some 740,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.

Bangladesh stands to lose $7 billion in export earnings every year once it graduates into the developing country bracket in 2027 as the trade benefits it currently enjoys will be phased out then, a Planning Commission report says.

The alleged ringleader of a Rohingya robber gang was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf yesterday morning, hours after his arrest.

President Hassan Rouhani spoke with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, warning him Iran would take the next step in reducing its nuclear commitments unless Europe lives up to its own undertakings.

A man allegedly killed his 65-year-old mother by setting her on fire after she refused to give him money to buy drugs yesterday evening.

Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has ordered general elections on October 23, as tensions rise with his estranged predecessor, Ian Khama, the man who put him in the top job.

President Donald Trump on Friday released a photograph of an apparently failed Iranian rocket launch and said that the United States had nothing to do with it.