The UN rights office yesterday hammered India and Pakistan for failing to improve the situation in Kashmir, while renewing calls for an international probe into violations in the disputed Himalayan region.

A suspected Palestinian car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank has wounded five Israeli soldiers and the alleged assailant has been arrested, the Israeli army said yesterday.

Indian border guards gunned down one Bangladeshi cattle trader near Sreerampur border in Lalmonirhat early yesterday.

Malaysia said it would work together with Bangladesh to ensure quick repatriation of the Rohingya as well as accountability for the persecutions committed against the Muslim minority group in Myanmar.

A Narayanganj court yesterday placed a madrasa principal on a seven-day remand in connection with a case filed for the rape of at least 12 female students and sexually harassing many more in the district’s Fatullah upazila.

A Taliban attack on a government security compound in central Afghanistan yesterday killed at least 14 people and wounded more than 180, including scores of children, hours before a meeting in Qatar aimed at preparing the ground for peace talks.

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a rape-accused in Anwara upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

Britain’s ambassador in the United States has described President Donald Trump and his administration as “inept” and “uniquely dysfunctional”, according to leaked diplomatic memos published by the Mail yesterday.

Three lawmakers yesterday came down heavily on the government for increasing the price of gas and said the move would affect the people.

The information ministry is monitoring all the print and electronic media as well as online news portals round the clock to see if they are publishing any fake or confusing news, State Minister for Information Murad Hassan told parliament yesterday.

A 28-year-old was allegedly beaten to death by a group of youths in Jorarganj of Mirsarai upazila in Chattogram yesterday.

Sudan’s army ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan vowed Saturday to implement the power sharing deal agreed with demonstrators, as the protest campaign cancelled a nationwide day of civil disobedience later this month.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, no stranger to controversy, sparked a new brouhaha this week by repeatedly defending the practice of child labour.

The sweltering heat of the Venezuelan forest makes no difference to Jose Gregorio, who trembles with a cold chill. “I have pain everywhere, fever,” he stammers.

An Aboriginal settlement older than the pyramids that provides evidence that indigenous Australians developed sophisticated aquaculture thousands of years ago has been granted World Heritage status, the UN has announced.

The United States yesterday called for Germany to send ground troops to northern Syria, pushing Berlin to ramp up its military involvement in the fight against the Islamic State group as Washington looks to withdraw from the region.

Fresh political violence broke out in Hong Kong yesterday evening as riot police baton charged protesters in a bid to disperse demonstrators following another massive rally, an AFP reporter on the scene said.

The sweltering heat of the Venezuelan forest makes no difference to Jose Gregorio, who trembles with a cold chill. “I have pain everywhere, fever,” he stammers.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacked the governor of Turkey’s central bank and replaced him with his deputy, a presidential decree said yesterday, after months of tension with the government over high interest rates.

The two finalists in the race to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister wooed voters on Friday in Scotland, where frontrunner Boris Johnson’s “no-deal Brexit” threats are fanning the flames of independence.