The UN Human Rights Office has voiced deep concern over escalating conflict between the Myanmar military and the rebel Arakan Army, which has displaced several thousand Rohingyas in Rakhine State in recent days.

Environmental disasters linked to climate change are threatening the lives and futures of over 19 million children in Bangladesh, prompting many families to push their daughters into child marriages, Unicef said yesterday.

Police yesterday detained 115 Rohingyas, including 39 women and 26 children, while they were trying to go to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal.

The number of children who are affected by the Venezuelan crisis and who will need humanitarian aid this year is expected to more than double to reach 1.1 million, up from nearly 500,000, the UN children's agency said Thursday.

A German far-right member of parliament, Markus Frohnmaier, could become "absolutely controlled" by Russia and act in Moscow's interests, media reported yesterday.

Dozens of asylum seekers occupied the main railway station in Athens yesterday in a burgeoning protest demanding access to the border and passage to other EU states.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned Beijing to back off from a disputed island in the South China Sea, warning of possible military action if China "touches" it amid rising tensions over the key waterway.

Nearly two months after the surrender of top 102 yaba godfathers and traders in Cox's Bazar, police are now drawing up a fresh list of people involved in the trade of crazy pills for a second surrender programme.

Gonoforum will take organisational action against its lawmaker Mokabbir Khan as he took oath as a member of parliament defying the party's decision.

In yet another dramatic turn of events, the Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad restored his younger brother GM Quader in the co-chairman post.

Ugandan security forces yesterday scoured dense bush in the hunt for a US tourist and her safari guide who were kidnapped by gunmen in a national park.

Another accused of the latest gang-rape in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila surrendered before a court yesterday.

The family of an eight-year-old girl, who was allegedly gang-raped and killed last month in Jashore's Dharmatala area, has moved to a

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday filed his papers to run for parliament from a southern constituency, aiming to strengthen his Congress party's prospects in a region where the ruling Hindu nationalists have a limited presence.

Villagers and a lawmaker in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state said yesterday that a military helicopter attacked a group of Rohingya Muslims gathering bamboo, killing five and wounding 13, but a military spokesman declined to comment.

Awami League infighting left two people dead and at least eight others injured in Brahmanbaria and Faridpur in the last two days.

Mostafa Sarwar Farooki, for the first time, is making an English-language film -- “No Land's Man” -- that will star the illustrious Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, according to Variety, an entertainment magazine.

There is only one way of entering and getting out of Malingapara, a remote village on the upper valley of Sangu, on foot. Another way that we could use to get in or out of the village was by boat through the nearly dead Sangu river.

The High Court yesterday directed Green Line Paribahan not to sell tickets for Thursday, saying that it would order confiscation of the company's buses for an auction if it failed to pay a compensation of Tk 50 lakh to Russell Sarker by Wednesday.

Germany's deportation of a Vietnamese author and human rights activist back to his communist-ruled homeland sparked protests yesterday.