US President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a second spate of orders to undo his predecessor’s immigration policies, demonstrating the powers of the White House and its limitations without support from Congress.

Saudi Arabia has suspended entry to the Kingdom from as many as 20 countries in order to curb the rapid spread of coronavirus, officials said.

Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon as an online bookstore and built it into a shopping and entertainment behemoth, will step down later this year as CEO, a role he’s had for nearly 30 years, to become executive chairman, the company announced Tuesday.

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh condemned the military coup in their homeland and said it makes them more fearful to return.

World Health Organization investigators on Wednesday visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.

Staff at 70 hospitals and medical departments in 30 towns across Myanmar have stopped work to protest against the military seizing power in the country, a statement from the Myanmar Civil Disobedience Movement posted on Facebook said on Wednesday.

Emanuel Jackson, a 20-year-old Washington area man, was caught on video using a metal bat to strike the protective shields wielded by police officers as they tried to fend off rioters storming the US Capitol on January 6.

A Russian court sentenced Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to three and a half years in jail after ruling he had violated the terms of his parole, but said that his prison term would be shortened for time he had served earlier under house arrest.

International pop star Rihanna came out in support of the agitation by Indian farmers and criticised the internet shutdown at the protest site on the outskirts of Delhi.

Two motorcyclists were killed and two others injured in a road accident at Jashore's Bagharpara upazila tonight.

The din of banging pots and honking car horns reverberated through Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon in the first widespread protest against the military coup that overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Bangladesh has expressed its interest in becoming a member of the New Development Bank (NDB) established by BRICS, an informal group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Scientists gave Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine the green light saying it was almost 92% effective in fighting Covid-19 based on peer-reviewed late-stage trial results published in The Lancet international medical journal.

The health minister today urged representatives and government officials to join the Covid-19 vaccination campaign.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned to arrest a man who filed a bail petition seeking bail for the alleged murderer of his son who was killed in Sylhet’s Beanibazar last year.

The United Nation’s Myanmar envoy Christine Schraner Burgener urged the Security Council to “collectively send a clear signal in support of democracy in Myanmar”.

A court in Noakhali today sent a union parishad member of the district’s Senbagh upazila to jail in a case filed for issuing birth and naturalisation certificates to Rohingya refugees.

Emanuel Jackson, a 20-year-old Washington area man, was caught on video using a metal bat to strike the protective shields wielded by police officers as they tried to fend off rioters storming the US Capitol on Jan. 6.

Karmojibi Nari, a platform for working women, today demonstrated in front of the Central Shaheed Minar demanding capital punishment of the man who killed a 15-year-old girl after failing to rape her near the area.

A Kurigram court today sentenced a man to death in a case filed for murdering his pregnant wife over dowry on May 17, 2011.