UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on Venezuela to release jailed dissidents Friday and said the crisis-wracked country faced a “serious” humanitarian situation.

The chairman of Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila allegedly threatened the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) on Friday night.

Lawmakers from the treasury and opposition benches criticised Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in parliament yesterday for keeping “insufficient” allocation for education, health and culture sectors in the proposed budget for fiscal 2019-20.

Flights were suspended Friday at Tripoli’s only working airport after rocket fire hit its perimeter, Libyan Airlines told AFP.

Hong Kong police yesterday vowed to pursue the ringleaders of a 15-hour blockade of their headquarters which involved thousands of anti-government demonstrators as a push to oust the city’s pro-Beijing leader evolves.

Malaysia yesterday said the perpetrators of violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya mi-nority must “be brought to justice”, in sharp comments delivered at a normally tame re-gional summit.

Myanmar authorities ordered telecoms companies to shut down internet services in conflict-torn western Myanmar, a leading operator said yesterday, amid heightening tensions in the region, where government troops are fighting ethnic rebels.

Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be visiting Bangladesh from July 8 to 11, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said.

A man died by suicide in Brahmanbaria yesterday, police said. The incident comes two days after his son allegedly raped one of their teenage relatives.

The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs has approved a bipartisan legislation to impose sanctions on Myanmar military in response to the genocide against Rohingyas.

Fifty-six percent of those involved in militant activities have ‘‘general education’’ background, according to a survey by the police headquarters. “We conducted the survey on 250 people, arrested between 2015 and 2017 for their involvement in militancy, and found that most of them have come from general schools,” said Md Moniruzzaman, additional deputy inspector general (intelligence) of police’s Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU).

The authorities of Payra power plant have directed the Bangladeshi workers to leave the construction site and not return until further notice.

Tehran yesterday warned Washington that any attack would see its interests across the Middle East go up in flames as US President Donald Trump said he will impose additional sanctions against Iran in an effort to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons, adding that military action was still a possibility.

Over 1,000 unidentified people have been sued in two cases filed with Patuakhali’s Kalapara Police Station over the death of a Chinese engineer and vandalism at Payra power plant.

Passengers of Rajshahi-bound Silk City Express caught a man and handed him over to police in Ishwardi railway station area on Thursday night for allegedly harassing a schoolgirl sexually inside the train’s toilet.

President Donald Trump said yesterday he is in “no hurry” to bomb Iran, revealing that US forces were “cocked and loaded” to retaliate after the downing of a US spy drone but that he called them back in order to avoid mass casualties.

Toufiq M Seraj, managing director of real estate company Sheltech (Pvt.) Limited, yesterday died on a Qatar-bound flight from Dhaka.

No one will be allowed to construct buildings without approved design, open spaces, firefighting equipment and garage in the capital, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim warned yesterday.

The home ministry has questioned the jurisdiction of a police probe body to investigate possible negligence of duty by Feni Additional District Magistrate PKM Enamul Karim, also the president of the governing body of Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Madrasa.

Thousands of climate activists Friday started marching toward a huge German coal mine they plan to blockade in a protest against global warming, an issue that has shot to the top of the European political agenda.