Three suspected human traffickers were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities to conduct a survey on railway bridges and culverts across the country and repair those damaged or risky.

Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge amounts of data in a seven-year spying campaign, researchers from a cyber security company said, identifying links to previous Chinese cyber-espionage activities.

Bulgarian authorities have broken up a major organised crime ring thought to have smuggled thousands of migrants from Afghanistan en route to western Europe, prosecutors said yesterday.

A female student of Rajshahi University filed a complaint of sexual harassment against a teacher of the university.

Hong Kong activists have raised more than HK$5 million ($640,606) in a crowdfunding campaign to take out newspaper ads in a bid to get a controversial extradition bill on the agenda at the G20 summit.

Britain banned sales of crowd-control equipment such as tear gas to Hong Kong on Tuesday and called for an investigation after police clashed with demonstrators opposed to a bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.

Amnesty International yesterday raised fresh concerns that Sri Lanka may soon end a 42-year moratorium on capital punishment and hang 13 men convicted of drug offences.

The US Supreme Court in the coming days will have a last chance before its three-month summer break to decide whether to take up President Donald Trump’s long-stalled bid to end a program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

Malaysia has ordered nearly 500 schools and kindergartens to close until tomorrow, after dozens of people were hospitalised with symptoms suggesting they breathed toxic fumes, possibly from industrial waste, the second such incident this year.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday ordered the jail authorities to provide former Sonagazi Police Station OC Moazzem Hossain with division in jail as per the Jail Code.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik yesterday announced that all expired medicines must be removed from pharmacies across the country by July 2.

The dengue situation in the country is getting worse this year as the number of infected people has more than doubled since last month, compared with the same period last year.

Top-ranking police officer Mizanur Rahman, who came to the spotlight last year for “forcibly marrying and torturing” a woman, has amassed Tk 3.28 crore illegally over a period of 20 years, finds an investigation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday described Bangladesh Awami League as one of the most “well-organised political parties” in the subcontinent and cited confidence that no-one could destroy the organisation.

Sixteen leading Turkish civil society leaders appeared in court yesterday, accused of seeking to overthrow the government during the “Gezi Park” protests of 2013, in a trial dubbed an absurd sham by critics.

BNP’s Golam Mohammad Siraj won yesterday’s Bogura-6 by-elections, which saw the use of EVMs in all voting centres.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance will hold demonstrations in metropolitan areas across the country, including the capital, next month for the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the party said.

Georgia’s ruling party leader yesterday announced sweeping electoral reform, in line with the demands of anti-government protests that have gripped Tbilisi since last week.

Finance officials were flying into Bahrain yesterday for a US-led peace conference that holds out billions of dollars for the Palestinians, whose leaders pronounced the idea dead on arrival.