Russian police arrested almost 1,400 people as they gathered in Moscow at the weekend to demand open elections, a monitor said, the biggest crackdown on a rally in the country in years.

The police’s Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) arrested five members of a family in the capital’s Rupnagar area early yesterday over their alleged involvement with banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam.

Thousands marched in cities around Colombia on Friday in protest of the murder of hundreds of human rights activists, a spat of deadly violence which the country has been unable to quell in spite of a 2016 peace deal with Marxist rebels.

Bahrain executed two Shia citizens by firing squad Saturday on terror charges, officials said, despite appeals for clemency from international human rights groups.

Four passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed and two others injured when a truck rammed the three-wheeler in Pakundia upazila of Kishoreganj yesterday morning.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday ordered the sprawling Selous Game Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site, to be split in two to restrict the access of big game hunters.

Hilsa started flooding the fish markets in Bagergat and Patuakhali as the government lifted its ban on netting fish in the Bay of Bengal on July 23.

The flood situation is improving in the northern districts while the water level slightly increased in the central part of the country yesterday.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with BGB members in Benapole’s Agrabhulot border yesterday.

A madrasa principal was arrested in Narayanganj yesterday for allegedly raping and sexually harassing four female students.

The US Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the US-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding.

Two young men were brought back from the brink of death as they were rescued in separate incidents of mob beatings on Friday in Chattogram and Kushtia.

The visiting Myanmar delegation and Rohingya representatives yesterday agreed to participate in a joint dia-logue on the repatriation issues.

Three years ago, police in India’s northeastern state of Assam were looking for a woman named Madhumala Das, who had been declared an illegal immigrant by a local tribunal.

Nestled in the mist-covered foothills of Taiwan’s central mountain range, Ruan Chiao village is virtually devoid of young people, but artist Wu Tsun-hsien is coaxing the Instagram generation back by transforming local homes into a canvas of colour.

Twelve-year-old Jannati’s dream of going to school was far-fetched because she had to get up early every day and accompany her mother Sukhi Begum for work.

Former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has sought asylum in Canada, claiming that he was threatened for refusing to support political interference in the judiciary, according to a news report.

The overall flood situation in some parts of the north showed signs of improvement yesterday as floodwater started receding. Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre of Bangladesh Water Development Board (WDB) said Brahmaputra, Dharla, Ghaghot, Jam

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday backed legislation that would impose sanctions on the Saudi royal family and block some weapons sales, pushing back against President Donald Trump’s close ties to the kingdom.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s cell phones were allegedly targeted by a group of hackers who are also accused of breaching the devices of the investigators in a massive corruption probe, the justice ministry said Thursday.