The EU and Cuba signed a renewable energy deal on Tuesday, a step towards normalising relations in defiance of Washington's continuing hardline stance on Havana.

Rights activists in Pakistan are facing "a targeted campaign of digital attacks", Amnesty International said Tuesday, the latest warning about the rising threat to campaigners in the country.

Moscow yesterday called for a Russian journalist detained in Ukraine for treason to be freed, condemning Kiev authorities for what it said was a repressive policy against the media.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the police to give the highest importance to people's basic and human rights and the rule of law while discharging their duties.

Myanmar has repeatedly declared that the physical infrastructure required for Rohingya repatriation is in place, but the situation in Rakhine is not favourable and no meaningful steps have been taken to ensure a safe return.

In rural Bangladesh, twenty six percent of the people aged 40 years or above are suffering from hypertension, and, of them, 21.5 percent have suffered strokes, says a new study on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Hit songs today are "happier", more danceable and more likely to be sung by women than songs that fail to make it to the charts, a study into 30 years of musical evolution revealed yesterday.

Three alleged criminals were killed in separate “shootouts” between police and “suspected criminals” in Narayanganj, Mymensingh and Feni early yesterday.

Nearly six months have passed since the signing of the Rohingya repatriation deal, but Myanmar is yet to take back a single of the refugees from Bangladesh.

The White House yesterday voiced hope the upcoming summit between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump will proceed as planned, as Pyongyang threatened to pull out over US pressure for "unilateral nuclear abandonment."

In the small East African country of Uganda, a Bangladeshi will be pleasantly surprised to find the “Bangla House”.

The criminal invasion of privacy case against Missouri's governor was suddenly dropped Monday, just days before a trial was scheduled to begin in the Midwestern US state on a criminal charge tied to an extra-marital affair.

India's opposition Congress party yesterday suffered an electoral setback in one of the last major states which it governs and scrambled to build a coalition to stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party taking over.

Four people were arrested yesterday after a case was filed for neglect that led to deaths of nine women in a stampede during disbursing zakat and iftar items at Satkania on Monday.

Two sisters suffered burn injuries after criminals attacked them with acid in Bhola yesterday afternoon.

The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict today on the appeals against the High Court order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.

Anti-Corruption Commission will take legal action against former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu if he failed to show up on May 30 to be quizzed over Tk 4,500 crore loan scam.

Palestinians buried the dead yesterday from the bloodiest day in Gaza in years, after Israeli forces killed 60 Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border during demonstrations against the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.

UN Security Council members, except China and Russia, have called for robust council actions so that Myanmar addresses the root cause of the Rohingya crisis, grants the refugees citizenship and holds those who carried out atrocities against them accountable.

Two alleged drug dealers were killed in “shootouts” between Rapid Action Battalion and suspects in Kushtia and Narayanganj early yesterday.