China may have intensified its lookout for North Koreans who have escaped the reclusive state to Chinese territory, a senior UN official said on Friday.

The EU on Thursday stepped up its rhetoric over Turkey’s “illegal” drilling for oil and gas off Cyprus, raising the threat of sanctions if Ankara refuses to back down.

A yaba trader was killed in Cox’s Bazar yesterday by his rivals, police said.

Malaysia’s prime minister yesterday vowed to help Rohingya Muslims seeking refuge in Malaysia, reiterating the call for Southeast Asian leaders to “stop the oppression” of the stateless minority group expelled from Myanmar.

At least 100 candidates missed the recruitment tests for primary schoolteachers at a centre in Barishal yesterday due to adverse weather.

Two siblings drowned in the Buriganga river yesterday as a boat capsized after being hit by a launch near the capital’s Sadarghat launch terminal.

As recruitment of 9,680 police constables is going to begin on June 22 in all 64 districts across the country, the Police Headquarters yesterday warned against all sorts of monetary exchange and other unfair means in this regard.

Traffickers exploit Rohingya men, women, and children from refugee camps for both sex and labour trafficking, including domestic servitude, although the scale is unknown, a US report said.

A Chapainawabganj court awarded death sentence to nine and life term imprisonment to two people yesterday over the murder of a leader of Sonamasjid Land Port Clearing and Forwarding Agents Association.

The gun Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have used to commit suicide in France in 1890, shooting himself in the chest after years of mental anguish, sold for 130,000 euros ($145,700) at auction in Paris on Wednesday.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the authorities to freeze and confiscate all the moveable and immoveable properties of Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Mizanur Rahman.

US President Donald Trump yesterday said Iran made “a very big mistake” by shooting down a US military drone that Tehran said was on a spy mission over its territory, in an incident that fanned fears of wider military conflict in the Middle East.

Two teenage students lost their lives under the wheels of a Dhaka-bound bus in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila yesterday.

A Bogura court yesterday sent former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique to jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission over misuse of power in selling a government property.

The High Court yesterday asked the authorities concerned to conduct dope and vision tests on drivers’ licence seekers.

New York state lawmakers on Wednesday passed one of the world’s most ambitious laws aimed at countering climate change, under which fossil fuel power plants and gasoline cars will be phased out by 2050.

Two Canadian naval vessels sailed through the Taiwan Strait, Taipei’s defence ministry said, in the latest naval passage likely to irk Beijing.

Qatar distributed $100 grants to thousands of families in Gaza yesterday, an AFP correspondent reported, part of an understanding with Israel intended to restore calm to the blockaded Palestinian enclave.

A Hungarian court yesterday jailed four human traffickers for life for the deaths of 71 migrants whose decomposing bodies were found crammed inside a truck dumped on an Austrian motorway.

Pakistan’s top judge has vowed to set up more than 100 gender-based violence courts in the patriarchal country regularly ranked as among the most dangerous in the world for women.