As Kuwait’s Public Prosecution continues an investigation into Bangladeshi MP Shahid Islam Papul’s case of human trafficking and money laundering, it found new information that thousands of Pakistanis, Syrians, and Iraqis were also granted Kuwaiti visas in exchange for bribes.

New York police identified a person of interest in the grizzly murder of tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Pathao, Fahim Saleh.

The United States said Monday it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online in the fall because of the coronavirus crisis.

Kanye West, the entertainment mogul who urges listeners in one song to "reach for the stars, so if you fall, you land on a cloud," claimed Saturday he is challenging Donald Trump for the US presidency in 2020.

An American woman who helped turn a Donald Trump rally into a fiasco has been hired by a grassroots organisation campaigning for the election of presidential challenger Joe Biden.

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, arranged by the Bangladesh government at the initiative of Bangladesh High Commission, London, departed Heathrow for Dhaka 10:30am local time, carrying 153 Bangladeshis.

Indian capital Delhi today recorded a sharp rise in the number of coronavirus deaths due to the inclusion of fatalities that were “reported late”, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting officials.

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's ruling party on Thursday terminated the membership of his predecessor Mahathir Mohamad, a move widely seen as an attmept to consolidate power as he faces a possible challenge to his nascent premiership.

A police precinct in Minnesota went up in flames late Thursday in a third day of demonstrations as the so-called Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul seethed over the shocking police killing of a handcuffed black man.

Extremely severe cyclone Amphan today slammed into the coastal districts of West Bengal, India, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. At the time of filing this story, there was no immediate reports of loss of lives.

Cyclone Amphan is likely to intensify into a “very severe” cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours and cross coastal areas between Sagar Islands (West Bengal, India) and Hatiya Islands (Bangladesh) during the afternoon/evening of May 20, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said today.

Sixteen migrant labourers were run over by a goods train as they were sleeping on the rail tracks in the western Indian state of Maharashtra today, officials said.

A continent devastated by the coronavirus will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe today.

At least five Bangladeshis died of coronavirus infection in the state of New York in the last 24 hours.

Vietnam has rejected China’s claims over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes in the East Sea and reasserted that both groups of islands are under Vietnam’s sovereignty.

Sixteen civil society organisations of Bangladesh have urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres to appeal to the destination countries to refrain from the policy forced repatriation of migrants in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wall Street fell sharply on Monday after US crude futures turned negative for the first time in history, underscoring the chaos the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed on the global economy.

Fortify Rights has called for Malaysia to urgently coordinate with regional governments to deploy search and rescue missions for boats of Rohingya refugees adrift at sea and ensure their safe disembarking.

Though all activities, except for the emergency ones, have remained suspended due to coronavirus pandemic, Singapore is committed to making sure all workers, including Bangladeshis, have their wages paid on regular basis and that they have access to healthcare.

Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia fear an imminent food crisis as the lockdown continues amid the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the Southeast Asian country.