Rival Afghans will meet Sunday in Qatar, officials said, in a fresh attempt to make political headway as the United States seeks a peace deal with the Taliban within three months.

Turkish police yesterday launched nationwide raids to detain 122 individuals accused of ties to the group blamed for a 2016 coup attempt, state media reported.

Twenty-nine Bangladeshis, who remained stranded in the turbulent Libyan capital Tripoli and its suburbs, returned home early yesterday.

The UN envoy for Myanmar said Monday that progress on alleviating the crisis that led more than 720,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh has been slow and if there is no action it will be time to “ring the alarm bell.”

A peon of Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa testified in court yesterday over the murder of student Nusrat Jahan Rafi and narrated the events of March 27, the day principal SM Siraj Ud Doula sexually harassed the girl, was sued for the crime, and got arrested.

Israel has faced protests over an off-duty police officer’s killing of a young man of Ethiopian origin and braced for more yesterday as the incident drew fresh accusations of racism.

Police recovered bullet-hit bodies of a woman and her daughter from their house in Raikhali union of Rangamati’s Kaptai upazila yesterday morning.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent suspended deputy inspector general of police Mizanur Rahman to jail after rejecting his bail prayer in a graft case.

Two men were killed in “gunfights” with police in Gazipur and Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed the two Dhaka city corporations to take effective steps to prevent the mosquito menace in the capital, and thus control the alarming spread of dengue fever.

US President Donald Trump warned Monday that Iran is “playing with fire” after Tehran said it exceeded a limit on enriched uranium reserves under a 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by Washington.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is not afraid of the cancellation of hajj flights this year as the national airliner has already sold about 99 percent tickets of its 365 pilgrimage flights, starting from July 4.

On an average, more than three women were raped every day in the last six months in the country, says rights body Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK).

The Left Democratic Alliance has called a half-day hartal across the country on July 7 to protest the gas tariff hike.

Although six days have passed since Rifat was killed in Barguna, the three main accused in the murder case were yet to be traced.

As climate change worsens, growing heat stress on workers in agriculture and other sectors will cause a productivity loss equal to 80 million full-time jobs over the next decade, the UN warned yesterday.

Some 30 Bangladeshis, who got stranded in the turbulent Libyan capital of Tripoli and its suburbs, are returning home today.

The latest gas price hike may not push up the electricity price at the moment, but the move will hit some industrial sectors, including textile spinning and ceramics, as their production cost will rise significantly, industry insiders said.

The BRTA yesterday started registering ride-sharing app services, but the option to dial the emergency hotline using the app has been kept optional instead of mandatory.

Paris yesterday banned all diesel vehicles aged 13 years or over from the city centre, the latest move in a campaign to tackle pollution on the city’s streets.