Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says "war crimes" may have been committed against Rohingya Muslims but denied genocide, saying refugees had "exaggerated" the extent of abuses against them.

A total of 217 more Bangladeshi workers are deported by Saudi Arabia, raising the number to over 2,500 in last three weeks.

The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Muslim Rohingya population from persecution and atrocities, and preserve evidence of alleged crimes against them.

Myanmar has to submit reports to the world court on the actions it has taken and thereafter developments every six weeks, the International Court of Justice has said.

The International Court of Justice today ordered for provisional measures to prevent crimes of genocide against Rohingyas in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 23, 2020

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is delivering an order today in response to The Gambia’s seeking provisional measures to stop genocide against the Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine.

None of the 900 China-returnees screened at Dhaka and Chattogram airports are infected by coronavirus, Directorate General of Health Services claims.

A case has been filed over rape of a seven-year-old girl at Dhaka’s Sabujbagh.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), top UN court at The Hague, Netherlands has started delivering its verdict at 3:00pm (Bangladesh time) in response to The Gambia’s request for emergency provisional measures to stop ongoing genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

The 22nd span of Padma bridge has been installed this morning making a total 3.3 kilometres of the mega structure visible to public.

A policeman reportedly dies by suicide in Dhaka’s Mirpur-14.

A uniform admission test will be held next year to enrol students at all public universities in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has gone up three steps higher than the previous year in Transparency International's global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019. However, Bangladesh has scored 26 out of 100, the same as 2018.

Twenty activists of the Chittagong University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League are detained from two dormitories following an attack and counter attack between two factions of the organisation on campus.

Three American crew helping to battle Australia's devastating bushfires are killed when their water-bombing plane crashed in mountainous terrain during a sortie to tackle another outbreak of the deadly blazes.

A man has died after being hit by a bus in Dhaka’s Motijheel area.

Students of the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Dhaka University protest the torture of four students on campus by Chhatra League activists.

Democrats accuse US President Donald Trump at his historic Senate impeachment trial of seeking to "cheat" to ensure re-election in November, as they began laying out their detailed case for removing him from office.

At least one person have beeb killed and seven others, including a child, wounded after gunfire broke out in downtown Seattle near a popular tourist area, police and hospital officials said.