Britain will experience shortages of certain foods in the event of a “disastrous” no-deal Brexit, with “serious disruption” expected for months, the country’s food and drink lobby warned yesterday.

US senators are urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to encourage Poland to pay victims of Nazi property thefts, a move that earned praise from Jewish groups but risked antagonizing Poland’s pro-American administration.

The names of five top police officials have already surfaced as forerunners to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner post, which will fall vacant on August 13.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab officials in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday.

Israel has advanced plans for more than 2,300 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a surge of such approvals since US President Donald Trump took office, an NGO said yesterday.

Damascus and Russia resumed air strikes on Idlib in northwest Syria on Monday, a monitor said, scrapping a ceasefire for the jihadist-run bastion and accusing the regime’s opponents of targeting a Russian air base.

Eleven people have drowned and dozens are missing after a barge sank on a river in central Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said yesterday.

Indonesian leader Joko Widodo yesterday warned that officials would be sacked if they failed to stamp out rampant forest fires that are belching out toxic smog over Malaysia and Singapore.

The High Court yesterday ordered four BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, to surrender before a Dhaka court within six weeks in a case filed over issuing death threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The High Court yesterday deferred until tomorrow the hearing of Aysha Siddika Minni’s bail petition in the case filed over her husband Rifat Sharif’s murder.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid yesterday said the government would replace the capital’s old gas pipelines with new ones.

Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died following a brief illness, her family said in a statement yesterday. She was 88.

Dhaka University’s disciplinary board has suspended 69 students on charge of committing forgery during admission tests.

Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar said they launched air strikes early yesterday against an airbase in third city Misrata held by government loyalists.

Sushma Swaraj, former foreign minister of India and one of the BJP’s tallest leaders who was respected across party lines, is dead, Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences said yesterday evening.

Five men have been arrested on charges of raping a woman in Dhaka’s Savar, while two others have been accused of raping minors in separate incidents in Netrakona and Dhamrai.

A Libyan airliner has narrowly escaped being hit by incoming fire as it landed at war-torn capital Tripoli’s sole functioning airport, aviation officials said.

A drone air strike by eastern Libyan forces on the southern Libyan town of Murzuq has killed at least 43 people, a local official said yesterday.

Two British aviators yesterday took off on a first-ever attempt to fly a Spitfire around the world, proclaiming the iconic fighter plane as a symbol of freedom.

An Indonesian man is walking 700 kilometres (435 miles) from his home on a volcano in East Java to Jakarta in the hope of drawing attention to the archipelago’s quickly shrinking forests -- and he is doing it backwards.