Indonesia said yesterday it has cut ties with the WWF as it accused the global conservation group of overstepping its mandate in the country and unfairly criticising efforts to extinguish out-of-control forest fires last year.

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to authorise sanctions against Chinese officials who interfere in the process of determining the Dalai Lama’s successor, raising pressure as the Tibetan spiritual leader approaches 85.

Iraq is considering a larger role for Nato at the expense of the US-led coalition, Iraqi and Western officials told AFP, after an American drone strike on Baghdad that sparked outrage.

Cox’s Bazar municipality unit Awami League leaders and activists yesterday burnt copies of The Daily Star, protesting a report run by the daily earlier this week under the headline “Bakkhali River in Cox’s Bazar: Grabbed by guardian”.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was set to visit London yesterday to repair a post-Brexit alliance with an old friend whose defiance on China and Iran underscores Washington’s diplomatic isolation.

A Tangail court yesterday denied bail to baul singer Shariat Sarkar in a case filed over “hurting religious sentiment”.

US President Donald Trump unveiled the long-delayed US-Israeli plan yesterday amid repeated rejections by Palestinians.

All of them were school dropouts with an unflinching addiction to drugs.

A rare species of frog native to the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes has been spotted in the South American country for the first time in 18 years, the investigation team that made the discovery told AFP.

The government needs to ensure accountability of its officials and hold them responsible if they fail to execute the directives of apex court on saving rivers, speakers said at a seminar.

At least 11 people were killed and 14 others were injured in separate road accidents in six districts yesterday.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” while in police custody in Senbagh upazila of Noakhali early yesterday.

Women facing sexual harassment at work often do not lodge complaints due to fear of losing jobs and being stigmatised, speakers told a roundtable.

Dhaka University last night expelled 67 students over their involvement in admission test forgery, drug abuse and possession of illegal arms, said a DU press release.

Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten refused to apologise to China yesterday over a satirical cartoon it ran about the deadly new coronavirus that stoked the ire of Beijing.

At least 10 men have been killed in a major jihadist attack on a village in Burkina Faso, which is in the grip of a bloody Islamist insurgency, security and local sources told AFP yesterday.

Turkey warned yesterday it will retaliate “in self-defence” if any of its army posts in northwest Syria are threatened amid increasing attacks by regime forces on the country’s last major opposition bastion.

Catalan separatist Clara Ponsati has not set foot in her native Barcelona for two years for fear of the Spanish authorities. But her circumstances could be about to change thanks to Brexit.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Libyan crisis could not be solved by “military means”, after talks Sunday with his Algerian counterpart in Algiers.

Britain on Sunday announced a new fast-track visa scheme for top scientists, researchers and mathematicians as it prepares a new immigration system for life outside the European Union.