The United Nations has warned Myanmar of withdrawing support in the Rakhine state to avoid complicity in a government “policy of apartheid” for Rohingyas, reported The Guardian.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday called upon the government to immediately suspend all controversial projects, including the Rampal power plant near the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest.

Former state minister for home affairs Sohel Taj yesterday sought the prime minister’s intervention in finding his nephew who was allegedly picked up by plainclothes men over his relationship with a woman.

Cash incentives on remittance offered in the next budget will help boost foreign currency inflow, but the decline in allocation for the expatriate welfare ministry means low priority for the migrant workers’ rights, analysts said.

Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian president Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist who was ousted after one year of divisive rule, died after falling ill during a court hearing yesterday, the attorney general said. He was 67.

Former first lady Sandra Torres was in the lead after partial results early yesterday from Guatemala’s presidential election, following a tumultuous campaign that saw two leading candidates barred and the top electoral crimes prosecutor flee the corruption-weary country.

Israel will attend an upcoming conference on the economic aspects of Washington’s peace plan aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Foreign Minister Israel Katz has said.

China yesterday rejected US criticism of the UN counterterrorism chief’s visit to the restive region of Xinjiang as “absurd” after Washington warned it could serve to legitimise Beijing’s crackdown on Muslim minorities.

The mayor of Phoenix yesterday apologised after videos emerged showing police in the southwestern US city violently arresting a black family with young children.

The overall number of nuclear warheads in the world has declined in the past year but nations are modernising their arsenals, a report published yesterday said.

Turkey expects the delivery of the controversial Russian S-400 missile defence system to begin in July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying in Turkish media yesterday.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE on Saturday called for decisive action to protect energy supplies amid a tense US-Iran standoff as two tankers attacked in a vital Gulf shipping channel headed to port.

BNP joined the House to gain democratic space, but it will not give legitimacy to the current parliament, the party lawmakers said yesterday.

Bangladesh Ambassador to Libya Sheikh Sekander Ali made a journey on the Mediterranean Sea, around 10 kilometres off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis, to convince 64 Bangladeshi migrants to return to Bangladesh.

The 9th Wage Board Award will be announced soon, after a meeting of the cabinet committee on the issue and once Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gives her consent, Obaidul Quader, road transport and bridges minister, said yesterday.

Four alleged drug peddlers were killed in so-called gunfights with Rab and BGB in Cox’s Bazar and Cumilla early yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict that granted bail to Hallmark Group Chairman Jasmine Islam in a corruption case.

Opposition lawmakers yesterday came down heavily on the government for its failure to ensure fair price of paddy and check money laundering, soaring loan defaults and black money.

What is the point of sticking to paddy when mango is more profitable and easier to farm? What is the point of living in uncertainty and poverty?

Prices of some items such as sugar and edible oil may go up due to a spike in customs tariff and imposition of VAT for the fiscal 2019-20, Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, chairman of the National Board of Revenue, said yesterday.