Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is accorded a hearty welcome on his arrival in Kolkata this morning on a two-day visit.

Human rights groups yesterday called for the release of at least 10 Moroccan citizens arrested and prosecuted over the past five months who “did nothing but peacefully express critical opinions”.

Iraq’s premier-designate Mohammad Allawi has met with dozens of representatives of the protest movement rocking the capital and Shia-majority south since October, a participant in the meetings said yesterday.

Two women were killed and seven other people were wounded when shells hit a Rohingya village in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on January 25.

China’s embassy in Uzbekistan yesterday accused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of slander after he raised the plight of Muslims in the Xinjiang region during a visit to Central Asia.

British journalists walked out of a government briefing on Monday in protest at the exclusion of other reporters, in the latest tensions between Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s team and the media.

The Taliban yesterday lashed out at Washington on social media, accusing the US of holding up negotiations over a potential withdrawal deal that would see the Americans end their 18-year war in Afghanistan.

Representatives of the warring parties in Libya meeting in Geneva have agreed on the principle of turning their shaky truce into a lasting ceasefire, the UN’s Libya envoy said yesterday.

A Rohingya man was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The newly elected ward-23 councillor of Dhaka North City Corporation was sent to jail yesterday, hours after police arrested him on charges of assaulting two cops.

The Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for the government to recover the land of Turag river from illegal possession of Nishut Jute Mills Ltd of Hameem Group, and Hossain Dyeing and Printing Mills Ltd of Anwar Group.

The officer-in-charge of Haragachh Police Station has been closed as he allegedly let go a rape suspect hours after his arrest without recording a case against him in Rangpur’s Kaunia upazila.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday officially launched an investigation into the allegations of atrocities committed by Myanmar against the Rohingyas.

A fund titled ‘Prime Minister’s Relief Fund’ has been opened for collection of donations from philanthropic persons and organisations for relief in Bangladesh.

French police yesterday cleared the last migrant tent camp in northeast Paris, moving 427 people to shelters as part of a plan to take migrants off the streets.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was a man with vision, but more importantly, he had the determination and highest level of efficiency to turn his vision into action, and that was what he used to establish and turn Brac into one of the world’s biggest development organisations.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Rome yesterday on a four-day official visit to Italy to hold talks with her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte.

The United States has requested a closed-door UN Security Council meeting for Thursday at which President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner, is to present the administration’s new Mideast plan which is opposed by the Palestinian leadership, diplomats said.

Russia plans to deport foreigners diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said yesterday, as the government postponed an investment forum over the deadly infection.

A clear majority of Canadians feel their country does not have to pay for security for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, who have settled in British Columbia.