Riot police in Zimbabwe yesterday fired teargas and beat demonstrators during a crackdown on opposition supporters who have taken to Harare’s streets despite a protest ban.

Police on Thursday rescued a child -- who had been abducted and sold a day ago -- from Sunamganj’s Jamalganj upazila and arrested two people in this connection.

A charity rescue ship carrying 134 migrants, mostly Africans, waited off the coast of Italy yesterday as a battle between former political allies in Rome stopped it docking at the southern island of Lampedusa.

More mental hospitals are needed to take potential mass killers off the streets, President Donald Trump said Thursday in response to recent mass shootings, while staying quiet on a pledge to toughen gun laws.

July 2019 temperatures were the hottest ever recorded globally, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said yesterday, confirming earlier observations by the European Union.

At least 15 people were killed yesterday in ongoing fighting between Myanmar’s military and rebels who mounted a series of attacks, including an unprecedented strike on an army academy, apparently in retaliation for massive drug seizures.

A 400-year-old temple in Japan is attempting to hot-wire interest in Buddhism with a robotic priest it believes will change the face of the religion -- despite critics comparing the android to “Frankenstein’s monster.”

A second UK police officer was exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent used in last year’s attack on a former Russian spy in the English city Salisbury, British detectives said yesterday.

Some 35 percent of more than 1 crore pieces of rawhide were thrown away after this Eid, mainly due to slack market monitoring by the government, a syndication of some tanners and merchants, and merchants’ lack of capital to buy rawhide, said sources in the sector.

Many small scale cattle traders, who came to Dhaka with sacrificial animals and expectation of making a fortune ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, incurred big losses this year.

At least 20 people were killed and 82 others injured in separate road accidents in eight districts yesterday. Of the 20 dead, seven were killed in Feni, four in Faridpur, three in Kishoreganj, two in Sirajganj, and one each in Gopalganj, Mymensingh, Barishal and Tangail.

Greece yesterday deployed nearly 400 firefighters backed by EU firebombers to try to put out a massive wildfire on the island of Evia burning through a pristine pine forest for a third day.

Canada’s ethics watchdog rapped Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, concluding in the lead-up to October elections that he broke rules by arm-twisting his attorney general to settle a criminal case against engineering giant SNC-Lavalin.

The US Congress subpoenaed the owner of 8chan Wednesday, 11 days after a Texas man posted a racist screed on the website just before massacring 22 people in El Paso.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday accused former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe of plotting to assassinate him in cohorts with Colombia’s US ambassador Francisco Santos, and exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Lester Toledo.

The death toll from a fuel truck explosion in Tanzania has climbed to 85, a local governor said Wednesday, after 10 more people died from injuries sustained in the horrific blast.

Tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Brazil’s capital Wednesday to denounce President Jair Bolsonaro, in the third anti-government protest in the city in two days.

China will not “sit by and watch” and is ready to “quell the unrest swiftly” if the crisis in Hong Kong becomes “uncontrollable”, China’s ambassador in London said yesterday.

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra were advised yesterday by the Met Office to keep hoisted local cautionary signal number 3.

Two people were shot dead and 15 others injured as two groups clashed over a financial loan in Kishoreganj’s Bajitpur upazila yesterday.