BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir last night said his party has decided to join the upcoming upazila parishad elections.

A stringent security measure will be in place across the Old Dhaka’s Hossaini Dalan area on Tuesday for peaceful observance of the holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain (RA), grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH).

The logo on ex-FARC combatant Davinson Lopez’s tee-shirt says it all, and it’s a message Colombians desperately want to hear: “Our only weapon is peace.”

When anti-corruption activist Yevgeny Kurakin went to make an official complaint about authorities destroying a park in his sleepy town near Moscow, he was arrested in the prosecutor’s office. Three months later, he is still behind bars.

A dozen international media organisations, including AFP, have signed up to a new initiative launched by the BBC to fight misinformation. AFP said in a statement on Saturday it has joined the BBC initiative, alongside organisations such as the European Broadcasting Union,

Italy has issued arrest warrants for 10 people, including an imam, suspected of financing terrorism, prosecutors said Saturday.

Cameroon’s main opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who was runner-up in last year’s presidential election, yesterday went to trial in a military court on insurrection charges that have sparked international outcry.

Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge to the election of Prime Minister James Marape on September 20, a lawyer for opposition leader Patrick Pruaitch, who took the issue to court, said yesterday.

Union parishad chairmen in several upazilas of Chattogram have allegedly been issuing citizenship certificates to Rohingyas, paving the way for the refugees to eventually obtain Bangladeshi national identity card or passport.

Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died aged 95, the country’s president announced yesterday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday sought to regain political momentum after a painful week left his do-or-die Brexit strategy in tatters.

Several Jatiya Party lawmakers and presidium members yesterday demanded expulsion of Anisul Islam Mahmud and Fakhrul Imam from the organisation for allegedly playing the key role in declaring Raushan Ershad chairman of the party.

Police yesterday picked up over 100 teenagers from the capital’s Hatirjheel area in a drive against the growing “teen-gang culture”.

A Monirampur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a third grader who later became pregnant.

After a safety review by the local authorities, the International Organisation for Migration yesterday clarified that it donated the tools recovered from an NGO’s storage depot in Ukhia.

Mobs vandalised and looted several hundred shops of expatriates, including Bangladeshis, in South Africa in waves of anti-immigrant violence from Monday to Wednesday.

Two staff members with Action Against Hunger have been shot dead by unidentified “armed individuals” in western Ethiopia, the aid group said.

A union-level Awami League leader was murdered in Khulna’s Dighalia upazila last night.

A Laos activist is feared missing in Thailand, rights groups said yesterday, calling for an urgent investigation into his whereabouts after a rash of similar disappearances of dissidents in Southeast Asia.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday issued a stern warning to Yemeni separatists who have seized key parts of the south, saying any attempt to destabilise Yemen amounted to a threat to the kingdom.