China and Australia yesterday clashed over the detention of an Australian-Chinese writer who is held in Beijing on national security grounds -- the latest source of tension between the two countries.

The local administration stopped three schoolgirls from being forced into marriages in Akhaura upazila of Brahmanbaria yesterday.

The US has reiterated that it will stand strong on resolving the Rohingya issue, and also holding the perpetrators in Myanmar accountable for committing the crimes of atrocities against Rohingyas.

Eight schoolchildren were among nine people killed yesterday aboard a runaway truck that crashed in central Philippines while transporting them to a sports activity, the authorities said.

Kenya was yesterday set to inaugurate Africa’s biggest wind power plant, a mammoth project in a gusty stretch of remote wilderness that now provides nearly a fifth of its energy needs.

Turkey on Thursday launched an air attack on Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the killing of a Turkish diplomat in the region, the country’s defence minister said.

The US Homeland Security chief drew the wrath of Democrats on Thursday when he said conditions for detained migrant children on the southern border had improved after reports of squalor and abuse.

Pakistan has ordered consular access for Kulbhushan Jadhav, a former Indian naval commander condemned to death for spying, following a decision this week by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

A schoolteacher was hacked by a group of students in Barishal’s Muladi upazila on Thursday after he protested derogatory statements written against him on the school wall recently.

Sanctions imposed this week by the United States on Myanmar’s military leaders over human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims do not go far enough, UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee said yesterday.

The International Criminal Court’s prosecution office yesterday said their planned investigation into the atroc-ities on Rohingyas would be completely impartial and non-political as their officials were now on a visit to Bangladesh to engage with stakeholders including the victims.

Fifteen illegal migrants were killed and more than 20 injured in a minibus crash in southeast Turkey yesterday, a local governor said.

Hundreds of Sudanese demonstrators yesterday marched in the capital towards a prominent square to honour comrades killed in the months-long protest movement that has rocked the northeast African country.

German captain Carola Rackete, who sparked international headlines by forcibly docking in an Italian port with rescued migrants, faces questioning by an Italian prosecutor over allegedly aiding illegal immigration.

Russia has sent special forces in recent days to fight alongside Syrian army troops in northwestern Syria where they have been struggling for more than two months to seize the last opposition bastion, senior rebel commanders said.

Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain’s next prime minister, suggested Wednesday that the EU would bear some responsibility if he took his country out of the bloc without a divorce deal.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has decided to revive water bodies across the country to boost fish production.

Italian police said yesterday they had arrested 19 suspected members of a Nigerian mob, including the leaders of a clan which forged alliances with other mafias and violently punished any who rebelled.

An American man was exonerated Wednesday for a decades-old murder he did not commit, using evidence based on DNA and a genetic family tree, the first such result using a revolutionary investigative technique.

A South African panel questioning former president Jacob Zuma over alleged graft during his time in office suspended work Wednesday after he complained that the questioning was too harsh.