The Human Rights Watch yesterday slammed Bangladesh authorities after some arrests this week under the country’s internet laws, raising worries over the freedom of expression in the nation.

Vietnam has sentenced 10 people to death for smuggling meth, ketamine and ecstasy across the country by train, state media reported yesterday as the communist country deepens its crackdown on drugs.

Indonesia yesterday informed Bangladesh that a comprehensive response team of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) would soon visit Cox’s Bazar and Myanmar’s Rakhine State to prepare a comprehensive need assessment.

Campaigners yesterday urged a court in Japan to halt so-killed “drive hunting” of dolphins in the country as part of an unprecedented lawsuit that argues the practice violates Japanese law.

Organisers cancelled the main weekly protests along the Gaza-Israel border yesterday, for only the second time in more than a year.

A top French court yesterday rejected an appeal by former president Nicolas Sarkozy to avoid facing charges of illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election bid, with a trial of the ex-head of state now appearing inevitable.

Russia on Thursday presented a draft resolution to the Security Council accusing the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, of politicization just before a new probe begins of chemical attacks in Syria.

North Korea is experiencing its worst drought in over a century, official media reported yesterday, days after the World Food Programme expressed “very serious concerns” about the situation in the country.

Criminals stabbed five people, who earlier handed over some drug peddlers to police in Chandpur’s Kachua upazila, on Thursday night.

Police yesterday arrested a youth on charge of raping a 14-year-old physically challenged girl in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila.

A five-month-old infant was killed in a road accident on Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in the city’s Satrasta area early yesterday.

Police made new arrests following clashes and poured thousands of security forces into the eastern city of Kolkata yesterday as tensions mounted ahead of the final round of voting in India’s marathon election.

President Donald Trump on Thursday proposed overhauling the US immigration system to favour young, educated, English-speaking applicants instead of people with family ties to Americans, a plan he will push in his 2020 re-election campaign but has little to no chance of being approved in Congress.

Suddenly one day, he came to know that he has a second wife. He was also told he even tortured that woman for her father’s failure to pay him Tk 1 lakh in dowry. Sazzadul Haque, executive director of Barishal-based Zam-Zam Nursing Institute, was in utter shock and disbelief when he was told

The High Court yesterday ordered the Bangladesh Bank to submit a list of borrowers defaulting on their loans of over Tk 1 crore and their names and addresses to it by June 24. During hearing a writ petition, the court also asked the central bank governor to submit to it a report containing details about

Twitter has suspended the account of Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Myanmar, over allegations of propagating hate speech against the Rohingya community. Although the general had not been active on the platform for about a year now, the suspension is being deemed as a “massive victory”

Workers of nine state-run jute mills in Khulna, who have been demonstrating for arrears and better pays since early this month, yesterday accused their leaders of failing to draw the attention of the higher authorities to their plights. Talking to The Daily Star, they said the “go-slow” strategy

Josu Ternera, one of the most influential leaders of former Basque separatist group ETA, was arrested in France yesterday after more than 16 years on the run, Spain’s interior ministry said.

Election officials in Afghanistan should do more to ensure delayed presidential polls can take place in September, the US embassy in Kabul said yesterday.

Three militants inspired by the Islamic State group have been arrested in Malaysia, accused of planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship in the country and neighbouring Indonesia, police said yesterday.