A Vietnamese court has jailed two activists on charges of publishing damaging anti-state propaganda about the communist-run country, state media reported Saturday, the latest convictions under a hardline leadership intolerant of dissent.

A Bangladeshi farmer watched dozens drown beside him in the Mediterranean before “God sent us the fishermen”, who saved him from the cold waters and took him to Tunisia.

The husband of a British bride who died on her honeymoon in Sri Lanka will be kept in the country at least until a formal hearing on the death is held on Wednesday, police said.

The battle for Tripoli between rival Libyan forces both championing the fight against “terrorism” has created a security vacuum, allowing the Islamic State group a chance to re-emerge, analysts warn.

A Bangladeshi man was tortured to death by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Kushkhali border of Satkhira Sadar upazila early yesterday, his family members claimed.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship and a Patriot missile battery to bolster an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers already sent to the Gulf, ratcheting up pressure on archfoe Iran.

Three people, including bus driver Nuruzzaman and his helper Lalon, raped nurse Shahinoor Akter Tania inside the vehicle, hit her head with a blunt object and then threw her out so that the incident looks like a road accident, police said yesterday quoting the accused.

With empty plates and pots, hundreds of state-run jute mill workers yesterday took to the streets in the capital’s Demra, demanding arrears and fair wages. The workers said they had no money to buy food.

A couple of Bangladeshi origin, who ran a sweets-making business in New Zealand’s Auckland, have been jailed for their two-year exploitation of Bangladeshi migrant workers.

Performing umrah has become uncertain for almost 20,000 people amid a crisis of plane tickets.

After aborting the first landing attempt at the Yangon airport in bad weather, the ill-fated Biman plane on May 8 went up to 5,000 feet and circled near the airport for 15 minutes.

Sunil Ambris’s 126-ball 148 headlined West Indies’ five-wicket victory against Ireland in a tri-nation ODI series match in Dublin yesterday, with the tourists hunting down the target of 328 in 47.5 overs. Having lost two of their three matches so far, with one game abandoned, Ireland are out of contention to qualify for the final.

Migrants and activists want the visiting Bangladeshi officials in Malaysia to negotiate regularisation of undocumented Bangladeshis before starting any fresh recruitments.

The UN human rights body has called on the Myanmar government to immediately grant humanitarian access to all conflict zones, including northern Rakhine State where restrictions on humanitarian access is exacerbating the sufferings of civilians.

Nearly 900 children held by a pro-government militia force fighting Boko Haram insurgents in northeastern Nigeria were freed yesterday, the UN said.

Jeff Bezos, who heads both Amazon and space company Blue Origin, unveiled a lunar lander Thursday that he said would be used to transport equipment, and possibly human beings, to the south pole of the Moon by 2024.

US President Donald Trump rushed to his son’s defense on Thursday after a Senate panel ordered that Donald Trump Jr testify as part of its investigation into Russia election interference.

France opposes “repeated extensions” for Britain’s exit from the European Union, a presidential official said yesterday, keeping to the hard line of Paris on Brexit.

After a three-hour-long effort, police and firefighters rescued and arrested an alleged drug peddler who got trapped between two buildings while fleeing a police raid in Chandpur’s Shahrasti upazila on Thursday.