Ukraine is running out of ammunition, officials said yesterday appealing for more arms, as fighting raged in the east and south of the country.

The proposed budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year does not outline a roadmap for reducing gas imports by increasing domestic production.

US President Joe Biden faced open criticism Thursday at an Americas summit, along with complaints about foreign pressure by Brazil’s far-right leader, as he sought progress on issues from migration to climate change.

A Rohingya leader was hacked to death by unidentified criminals at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday.

At least 25 houses were devoured by the Jamuna on Friday while nearly 50 establishments face the threat of erosion in Brammangacha village of Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur. 

Ukraine said yesterday it had launched new air strikes on Russian positions in the captured southern region of Kherson as President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted Kyiv’s forces were “holding on” in the east of the country.

A 37-year-old trader was yesterday found dead with a piece of cloth stuffed into his mouth near a railway track in Jashore, police said.

A woman sustained burn injuries in an acid attack in Khusiura village of Sunamgnaj’s Dowarabazar upazila on Thursday night.

A Sylhet court yesterday sent a man to jail in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act for his “derogatory” comments on expatriates’ welfare minister. 

Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured yesterday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesman told AFP.

A Palli Bidyut Samity employee was killed and five others injured when people with illegal power connections attacked them on Friday night at Bogura’s Shibganj upazila.

Sumon Shikder Musa, a key accused in the killings of Dhaka Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and a college student, will be interrogated face to face with other accused to obtain information whether any others were behind the crime.

Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been formed in space, scientists said yesterday.

Reduced exports of wheat and other food commodities from Ukraine and Russia risk leaving between 11 million and 19 million more people with chronic hunger over the next year, the United Nations’ food agency said yesterday.

The United Nations yesterday slammed cancellation of the operating licence of rights group Odhikar, urging the Bangladesh government to “immediately reconsider”.

The UN refugee agency yesterday accused Britain of dishonesty over London’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, as a court heard an emergency bid to block the first deportations next week.

The UN atomic energy watchdog said yesterday that Iran was removing 27 surveillance cameras at its nuclear facilities, warning this could be a “fatal blow” to negotiations to revive a landmark deal.

A universal pension scheme for citizens aged 61 and above will be introduced from fiscal 2022-23, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday.

Sumon Shikder Musa, a key suspect in the murders of Dhaka Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu, and college student Samia Afran Jamal Prity, was brought home from Oman by police yesterday.

With prices of mobile phones and broadband internet set to go up in the next fiscal year, the proposed budget would not be favourable to further development of the ICT sector, experts have said.