Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is considering a complete closure of air space to India and blocking Indian land trade to Afghanistan via Pakistan, the minister for science and technology said on Twitter.

About 40 people are feared dead or missing after the latest wreck of a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe off the coast of Libya, while about 60 people may have been rescued, the UN refugee agency said yesterday.

Brazil on Monday rejected aid from G7 countries to fight wildfires in the Amazon, with a top official telling French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of “his home and his colonies.”

A German charity said Monday it had rescued some 100 people from a collapsing dinghy in the Mediterranean while being threatened by the Libyan coastguard.

An eight-year-old physically challenged girl has allegedly been raped by her neighbour in Sunamganj’s Dharampasha upazila. The victim’s father filed a case against Rum Badsha Rumali, 18, with Dharampasha Police Station on Monday night, said Sujan

Ethnic minority communities in Bangladesh are being forced to leave the country as the state has failed to ensure their protection, eminent rights activist Sultana Kamal said yesterday.

A female government official lost her left leg after a recklessly-driven bus ran her over on a pavement in the city’s Banglamotor area yesterday afternoon.

President Michel Aoun said on Monday that Lebanon had a right to defend itself, likening Israeli drone strikes to a “declaration of war” amid rising tensions between Hezbollah and Israel.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday sentenced a Jamaat-e-Islami man from Rajshahi to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

Around after 48 hours, the police were yet to find any clue about who killed a motorcyclist on the capital’s Malibagh flyover early Monday.

The UN migration agency has been accused of forcing Bangladeshi migrants, including children, in Tunisia to return home following weeks at sea.

Iran has jailed a British dual national convicted of spying for Israel and upheld the sentence of a British Council staffer for “cultural infiltration”, the judiciary said yesterday.

A former human rights lawyer was elected Nauru’s new president yesterday, following calls for widespread reform in the tiny Pacific nation which Australia uses as a detention centre for asylum seekers.

Five former Liberian central bank officials, including an ex-president’s son, have pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering and “economic sabotage” in a scandal over millions of dollars of newly printed cash.

Road and metro traffic in Madrid and neighbouring areas was disrupted yesterday after flooding the previous night transformed streets into torrents, authorities said.

A team of scientists in the US have managed to reproduce coral in a lab setting for the first time ever, an encouraging step in the race to save “America’s Great Barrier Reef” off the coast of Florida.

Five Asiatic black bear cubs were rescued from a remote stretch of northern Laos and are being nursed back to health at a sanctuary, NGO Free the Bears said yesterday, calling the one-day rescue the largest in its 24-year history.

An Iraqi fighter killed in a drone attack late Sunday near the western border with Syria was buried yesterday morning near Baghdad, the powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force said.

Violence is pushing Hong Kong to the brink of great danger, the city government said yesterday, after a weekend of clashes that included the first gun-shot and the arrest of 86 people, the youngest just 12.

A third Rohingya man suspected of murdering Jubo League leader Omar Faruk was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila early yesterday.