Emmanuel Macron is “still kind of working out” his vision for NATO, a senior US official said Friday, brushing aside the French president’s call for reinventing the American-led alliance.

Ruling Awami League has named Sheikh Bazlur Rahman and SM Mannan Kochi as the president and general secretary, respectively, of its Dhaka north unit for the next three years.

Two suspected criminals were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Satkhira town early yesterday, hours after they were arrested in a mugging case.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday vowed to review Britain’s sentencing system after a convicted terrorist released early from prison was suspected of stabbing two people to death in an attack around London Bridge.

A Dhaka court is set to deliver its verdict today in the case filed over a road accident that killed two college students in the capital sparking an unprecedented road safety movement in the country.

A member of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP was shot dead by a group of unidentified criminals in Hashimpur Bazar area of Jashore’s Sadar upazila around 8:00am yesterday.

Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) is going to enforce a reduced weight limit for goods-laden vehicles on the Bangabandhu Bridge from today to enhance its durability. But the new limit is still not consistent with the recommendations made by experts over a decade ago.

The prisons and the police authorities apparently traded blame over how two death row convicts in the Holey Artisan attack case managed to wear prayers caps emblazoned with IS logo.

The nation is all set to celebrate the Month of Victory that starts today, through different festivities and programmes to be held throughout the month.

River transport workers yesterday started a nationwide indefinite strike, after what they called was the authorities’ failure to meet their demands in around seven months.

The Faraaz Hossain Courage Award-2019 will be given at a programme in the city’s Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel today.

Leaders of Bangladesh Petrol Pump O Tank Lorry Malik Shramik Oikya Parishad have called an indefinite strike starting today in three divisions.

The Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi youth in Dona border area of Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila on Thursday afternoon.

Singapore authorities Friday ordered Facebook to correct an article on a fringe news site containing “scurrilous accusations” of election rigging, ramping up their use of a controversial law against misinformation.

An ambush by Islamic State jihadists did not cause a collision between two French army helicopters which left 13 soldiers dead in Mali, France’s military chief of staff said Friday.

Protest leaders in Colombia on Thursday urged President Ivan Duque to include them in negotiations aimed at ending demonstrations that have rocked his right-wing government.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, an ardent conservative who worked to forge a stronger military alliance with the United States, died on Friday at the age of 101, an official at his son’s office said.

French prosecutors called Friday for 20 suspects to go on trial over the massacre of 130 people by suicide bombers and gunmen in Paris four years ago.

A South African court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma’s attempts to appeal against a corruption trial in which he faces charges related to a 1990s arms deal involving France’s Thales.

New Zealand announced extra aid for Samoa Friday as the Pacific nation’s measles epidemic raced past 3,000 cases and experts warned the number could double before the crisis was over.