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.

Several MPs of ruling grand alliance yesterday slammed the government for corruption in the banking sector and said Bangladesh Bank had failed to supervise the banks.

A Satkhira court has sent a man to jail on charges of raping a college student, recording the incident and subsequently embezzling money by blackmailing her.

Donald Trump’s threat to begin deporting “millions of illegal aliens” next week triggered heated rhetoric Tuesday on both sides of America’s political divide, with Democrats warning the US president was fear-mongering at his re-election campaign launch.

The Free Rohingya Coalition, a global network of Rohingya activists, has demanded the resignation of UN Secretary General António Guterres and other senior UN leaders for the global body’s “systemic failure” in addressing “genocide” against the Rohingyas in 2017.

Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fled war and persecution, the United Nations said yesterday.

The fifth phase of the upazila elections cast 38.62 percent ballots, making this year’s polls the lowest participated in the last 10 years.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government has a plan to bring all citizens under national health insurance coverage to ensure healthcare services.

The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that declared illegal the government circulars and gazette notifications that fixed the minimum age of freedom fighters at 12 and a half years in 1971.

A Chinese electrician was killed and seven other employees of 1320 MW Payra Power Plant were injured in a clash between Bangladeshi and Chinese employees in Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila.

Investigators from the Detective Branch of police are now looking for a Bangladeshi man suspected to have links with the Ukrainian hackers held over the recent DBBL ATM theft.

The High Court yesterday granted permanent bail to former Awami League lawmaker from Tangail-3 Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in a murder case, clearing the way for his release from jail.

The government has set July 1 to start registration of ride-sharing service providers, 17 months after the formulation of the guidelines.

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan, sparking a tsunami advisory that was later lifted with no reports of major damage yesterday and only a handful of light injuries.

Egypt yesterday accused the United Nations of seeking to “politicise” the death of the country’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi by calling for an “independent inquiry”.

A Feni court sent Siraj Ud Doula, the suspended principal of Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa, to jail yesterday in the sexual harassment case filed by the mother of slain student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

President Donald Trump will get a big crowd of his most loyal supporters as official 2020 reelection campaign kickoff in Florida but dismal early poll numbers show the larger-than-life Republican businessman is vulnerable.