The United States has formally notified the United Nations that it is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, triggering expressions of concern and regret from other major powers yesterday.

The body of freedom fighter and former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka is expected to arrive home from the USA tomorrow morning.

The High Court yesterday stayed the lower court orders that granted bail to three accused in a case filed for forgery over the design of 23-storey FR Tower in the capital’s Banani.

Bangladesh and Malaysia are scheduled to hold a meeting in Putrajaya today with a hope of having a fresh human resources recruitment deal between the two countries amid concerns of syndicates.

Mobile carrier Robi yesterday hinted that it may move to an international arbitration body to settle the government’s audit claim worth Tk 867.23 crore if the operator fails to get justice in Bangladesh.

The US wants to make big investments in Bangladesh -- in infrastructure, energy, as well as in strengthening Bangladesh’s institutions to improve governance -- under the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS).

The High Court yesterday directed Chevron Bangladesh to provide the Tk 620 crore due to the employees of the US oil and gas company.

Iran yesterday announced its latest violations of the nuclear deal with world powers, saying that it now operates twice as many advanced centrifuges banned by the 2015 accord and is working on a prototype that’s 50 times faster than those allowed by the deal.

Overall air quality status in Dhaka previously showed that winter was the most polluted season. But according to a study, things are changing in recent years.

Demonstrating students kept Jahangirnagar University Vice Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam confined to her residence since yesterday evening, demanding her resignation over allegations of corruption.

Two Indonesian journalists mediating a land dispute between a palm oil company and residents have been found dead with multiple stab wounds near a plantation in Sumatra, police said.

The visiting executive directors of the World Bank Group yesterday said that they would provide all sorts of support for displaced Rohingyas living in Bangladesh.

Cuban Communist Party leader Raul Castro, President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro signaled on Sunday punishing US sanctions would only stiffen their resolve to stick together and support social change in the region.

Bolivia’s government accused its rivals Sunday of plotting deadly violence against it after an opposition figure vowed to oust leftist President Evo Morales and called for the military’s support.

The hanging body of a girl was found in Baraigram upazila of Natore early yesterday.

The government is set to take up another project involving Tk 3,449 crore to enhance the security of the country’s first nuclear power plant in Rooppur.

Nine sailors who were waiting in the harbour of the port of Cotonou in Benin have been abducted by suspected pirates, port authorities said Sunday.

US President Donald Trump called Sunday for the unmasking of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint launched the House impeachment investigation, attacking the process against him as a “scam.”

El Salvador ordered Venezuela’s diplomats to leave the country in a challenge to President Nicolas Maduro, prompting his government to respond by expelling Salvadoran envoys in Caracas on Sunday.

Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul said Sunday it was indefinitely closing its consular office in the Afghan capital due to security reasons, amid mounting tensions between the neighbouring countries.