Singapore has made its largest ever seizure of smuggled ivory, impounding a haul of nearly nine tonnes of contraband tusks from an estimated 300 elephants, authorities said yesterday.

Sri Lanka customs yesterday ordered the return of container loads of hazardous mortuary and clinical waste illegally imported into the island from Britain under the cover of metal recycling.

Three French and Estonian troops were wounded on Monday when a car bomb exploded at the entrance to an international peace-keeping base in the Malian town of Gao, France’s military said.

Flood victims from different districts alleged that the government allocated relief materials were quite insufficient, as many were still suffering from a crisis of food.

The railway will not take any responsibility for casualties at unauthorised level crossings, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said yesterday.

India’s foreign minister was forced to issue a strenuous denial to an infuriated opposition in parliament yesterday, after US President Donald Trump said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited him to mediate in the bloody conflict with Pakistan over Kashmir.

Four suspected criminals were killed in “gunfights” with Rab and police yesterday.

The Milky Way gobbled up a galaxy one quarter of its mass 10 billion years ago in a “violent collision” that didn’t fully settle for eons, astronomers said in new research published Monday.

A strain of malaria resistant to two key drugs has spread rapidly from Cambodia and has become dominant in Vietnam, Laos and northern Thailand, with a “terrifying prospect” that it could reach Africa, scientists warned on Monday.

The High Court yesterday directed the owners of the vehicles without valid fitness documents to collect their fitness certificates in two months, starting from August 1.

Americans distrust the news media, but see government and political leaders as even more untrustworthy, a survey showed Monday.

A Barguna court yesterday fixed July 30 for hearing the petition seeking bail for Aysha Siddika Minni in the case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

A press release purportedly issued by some senior Jatiya Party leaders has questioned the appointment of GM Quader as JP chairman.

A mother and her daughter were burned alive and 10 houses gutted in a fire that broke out at a colony in Kolshi Dighirpar of Chattogram’s Middle Halishahar yesterday night.

A suspended director of the Anti-Corruption Commission was arrested last night on charges of bribery.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday slammed as “fundamentally and irretrievably flawed” findings by a watchdog concerning a donation to his 2017 campaign to head the ruling party.

Thailand’s army is investigating how a detained suspected insurgent in the Muslim-majority south was left unconscious hours after being taken to a notorious military camp.

Ukraine’s comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky is set to control an absolute majority in parliament, ushering in a generational shift in the ex-Soviet country’s political arena.

Iran said yesterday it had arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some of them to death after dismantling a CIA spy ring, an announcement President Donald Trump dismissed as “totally false” amid an escalating international crisis over tankers in the Gulf.

Regime and Russian air strikes killed 43 people in northwest Syria yesterday, most of them in a crowded market, a war monitor said, in the latest violence to plague the opposition bastion.