Members of Rapid Action Battalion yesterday held a Rohingya man with 10,000 yaba pills in Kutupalong Refugee Camp of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A dramatic late-night call from an Australian judge to a plane bound for Sri Lanka has temporarily spared a family of four -- including two Aussie-born toddlers -- from deportation and fuelled a political firestorm Down Under.

Although there is a rift within the main opposition Jatiya Party over its leadership, senior party leaders shared the stage of a prayer meeting in Bandar upazila yesterday.

Berlin yesterday eased rules allowing the descendants of people who fled Nazi Germany to reclaim citizenship.

The French government yesterday kicked off a month-long Brexit dress rehearsal for trucks carrying goods across the Channel to Britain through the port of Calais.

Six UN Security Council members on Wednesday blocked a move to include Somali jihadist group Al-Shabaab on a list of organizations such as Al-Qaeda that are under international sanctions, diplomatic sources said.

Donald Trump’s personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout resigned on Thursday after she shared information about the president’s family with journalists, US media reported.

North Korea has elevated leader Kim Jong Un to a status approaching his grandfather, the country’s founder Kim Il Sung, analysts said yesterday after Pyongyang revised its constitution to reinforce his authority.

Fifteen of dozens of migrants rescued by the Open Arms charity ship which for days was refused entry to Italy arrived in Spain yesterday.

Beijing told visiting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that its position on the South China Sea was not up for negotiation, a spokesman for the leader said yesterday.

Two schoolboys were allegedly assaulted by a landlord in Subarnachar upazila yesterday over suspicion of stealing pigeons.

The High Court yesterday directed the law ministry to take necessary steps to keep Narail District and Sessions Judge Sheikh Abdul Ahad away from discharging judicial duties in criminal cases for one year for exempting the prime accused in a murder case.

The NGO Affairs Bureau has suspended six projects of Mukti Cox’s Bazar, a local NGO, on charges of making and distributing weeding tools to Rohingyas.

India’s two main port authorities yesterday said they had been warned by the coastguard and intelligence officials that Pakistan-trained commandos have entered Indian waters to carry out underwater attacks on port facilities.

The same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale unless the carbon pollution destabilising Earth’s marine environment is brought to heel, warns a draft UN report obtained by AFP.

Several hundred truckers and helpers of Chattogram city blocked the airport road in Saltgola area yesterday, protesting the murder of a fellow driver the day before.

Rejecting the report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on the 10th parliament, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the report was totally one-sided and ill-motivated.

Three men were killed in “gunfights” with police and Rab in Chattogram, Cumilla, and Gazipur yesterday. All three of the dead were suspected criminals, the law enforcers claimed.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has turned down a parliamentary body’s request for relaxed security checks for MPs and former ministers at airports of the country.

Beijing yesterday slammed the nomination of a jailed academic from China’s Uighur minority for one of Europe’s top human rights awards, saying it equated to “supporting terrorism”.