A Rohingya man, allegedly involved in drug smuggling, was killed in a “gunfight” with the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Bangladesh is likely to experience another cold spell from Wednesday, according to the Met office.

More than 80 Yemeni soldiers have been killed and scores injured in a missile and drone attack blamed on Huthi rebels in central Yemen, medical and military sources said yesterday.

The government is going to launch e-passports (electronic passports) on January 22.

A member of PCJSS (MN Larma) was shot dead by a group of unknown criminals in Langadu upazila of Bandarban around 1:00pm yesterday.

Saudi Arabia has sent back over 100 Bangladeshi migrant workers per day in the first 18 days of this month after detaining them on various grounds, according to Brac Migration Programme.

In an unusual case of prompt action taken by authorities, the Barishal district administration demolished illegal structures put up by encroachers on the west bank of Kirtankhola river barely 24 hours after being alerted.

A man hanged himself after killing four people, including his wife and mother-in-law, following a family feud in Barlekha upazila yesterday.

Different organisations yesterday expressed concern over the issuance of arrest warrant for Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman and nine others.

Heavy snow covered the streets of Tehran yesterday, causing major flight delays and forcing the closure of schools, authorities in the Iranian capital said.

French police fired tear gas under a rain of projectiles and arrested dozens of people on Saturday as thousands of “yellow vest” anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris.

Mexico deployed around 200 National Guard officers to the Guatemalan border on Friday in an effort to block a huge migrant caravan traversing Central America toward the United States.

Protesters blocked several main roads across Lebanon on Friday as unprecedented demonstrations against a political elite accused of corruption and incompetence entered their fourth month.

Colombia’s army used American foreign aid money for an illegal domestic spying program that targeted lawmakers and other public figures, two opposition senators who say they were victims of the espionage have told US congress.

One of China’s top historic attractions issued an apology after two women drove an SUV into the Forbidden City in Beijing and posed for pictures when it was meant to be closed to the public.

Dozens of trucks have started dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of US government measures to protect Florida’s tourist destinations against the effects of climate change.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday claimed that the number of extrajudicial killings was much lower in Bangladesh than in a developed country like the United States.

Awami League lawmaker of Bogura-1 constituency Abdul Mannan passed away yesterday at LabAid Hospital in Dhaka after suffering a massive cardiac arrest.

Three members of a family were killed and two others injured as a car carrying them hit a roadside electric pole in Jashore town early yesterday.

The true scale of the outbreak of a mysterious SARS-like virus in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have warned, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading.