Germany yesterday said a Moscow police crackdown on peaceful protests “violates” Russia’s international obligations and undermines the right to fair elections in the country, a day after hundreds were detained at an opposition rally.

Malta said it has authorised 40 migrants aboard a rescue ship run by German NGO Sea-Eye to disembark following an agreement reached among several EU countries to take them in.

The peace deal between the Central African Republic government and rebel groups remains fragile, nearly six months after it was signed, UN experts said in a new report released Saturday.

At least two people were killed when a bus carrying employees of an Afghan television station was bombed in Kabul yesterday, an official said.

A VGF (Vulnerable Group Feeding) card seeker was killed and 10 others injured when a chaotic situation broke out during the distribution of the cards and VGF rice yesterday afternoon.

At least 29 Bangladeshi hajj aspirants have died so far in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Trees and plants on many acres in one of the country’s oldest reserve forests, Sita Pahar, have been razed in Rangamati but the authorities have virtually done nothing to stop it.

Washington wants to quickly deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Asia, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper yesterday said in a move likely to anger China.

In public interest, the health ministry has decided to reinstate a top child cancer specialist -- one of only three such experts in the country -- who was to be transferred from Chattogram Medical College Hospital to Rangamati Medical College Hospital (RmMC).

Three suspected robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

US rapper A$AP Rocky and two of his friends were released from custody in Sweden on Friday three days into their highly publicised assault trial, a development hailed by President Donald Trump who had tried to intervene in the case.

A US federal judge on Friday struck down one of President Donald Trump’s initiatives to curtail asylum claims, ruling that the government could not reject migrants who had crossed the border illegally.

Narayanganj police yesterday arrested five people for raping a woman in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj. All five confessed to the crime, police said.

The recent rise in dengue cases in India’s West Bengal is the result of the outbreak in Bangladesh, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed. “As Bangladesh is our neighbour, if something happens there, its effect crosses the border,” she told a programme in Jadavpur on Thursday.

Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head were recovering yesterday after Hungarian surgeons performed a marathon 30-hour operation to separate their skulls and brains.

The Pentagon has put off awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract sought by Amazon, saying Thursday that the process will be reviewed by the newly-appointed defense secretary.

A dispute over money within a Nigerian jihadist faction affiliated to the Islamic State group has spiralled into clashes that has killed “scores” of fighters, sources said.

Press groups yesterday slammed Bulgaria for probing the editor of a well-known investigative website over a massive hack and leak of taxpayer data, saying media freedom was under threat.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Gazipur town early yesterday.

Two men from Thailand’s insurgency-hit “Deep South” have been arrested linked to several small bomb attacks which rattled Bangkok yesterday as it hosted a regional summit attended by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, leaving four people wounded but not disrupting the diplomatic event.