French President Emmanuel Macron has said he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairo’s ability to counter terrorism in the region, a comment likely to draw the ire of critics.

Foreign Minister Abdul Momen today said the United Nations should help Rohingyas in Bhasan Char following the mandate on the basis of which the organisation works in Bangladesh.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies on Monday strongly supported the need to regulate digital currencies, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement after a virtual meeting of the officials.

Valiant freedom fighter Captain Akram Ahmed Bir Uttam died at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka. He was 74.

Chancellor Angela Merkel told party colleagues on Monday that existing lockdown measures in place in Germany would not be sufficient to get the country through the winter, participants at the meeting said.

The European Union said on Monday it did not consider Venezuela’s parliamentary election on Sunday free or fair, rejecting the result and calling on President Nicolas Maduro to chart a path towards national reconciliation.

The brother of a man who detonated a suicide bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in the English city of Manchester more than three years ago has admitted to playing a full part in planning the attack.

Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram region fined 13 businesses, including six brick kilns, Tk 15.16 lakh today for violation of DoE's conditions.

Editor of Bangla daily the Sangram, Abul Asad, has been released from jail following a bail order from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Police today arrested a madrasa teacher for allegedly raping a 16-year-old boy at the madrasa in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni.

The killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a “satellite-controlled smart system”, Tasnim news agency has quoted a senior commander as saying.

The cabinet today decided to store all government data at the 300TB capacity Kaliakair Data Centre under the ICT Division.

Eight people were killed after a BRTC bus hit two CNG-run auto-rickshaws in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila this evening.

Not an isolated incident, say women in Rajshahi

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in collaboration with Cox’s Bazar district administration today opened a new clinic to provide healthcare facility for freedom fighters in the district.

A plea from Dr Anthony Fauci for people to “wear a mask” to slow the spread of the coronavirus tops a Yale Law School librarian’s list of the most notable quotes of 2020.

At least one person has died and 200 others have been hospitalised due to an unidentified illness in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, reports said today.

Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday won a majority of seats in parliament after scant participation in an election that the opposition boycotted, saying it was a farce meant to consolidate a dictatorship.

A Chinese probe was orbiting the moon on Monday in preparation for the returning of samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years.

A man has been sentenced life term imprisonment in a case filed for raping a child in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar in 2017.