Romanians yesterday started voting in the second round of presidential elections that are expected to return Klaus Iohannis to office, confirming the pro-European trajectory of the eastern EU member.

The Public Works Department has served termination notices to GK Shamim’s construction firm GKB & Company Pvt Limited in a move to cancel the contracts signed with the company for implementing 15 large government projects.

Brazilian prosecutors have started a new investigation into the eldest son of President Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he embezzled public money by hiring “ghost employees,” officials said.

Police arrested a youth on charge of attempting to rape a five-year-old girl in Satkhira Sadar upazila early yesterday.

At least 44 students were injured after the ceiling of a madrasa and orphanage building collapsed on them at Matlab Uttar upazila on Saturday night.

At least three people have been trampled to death by wild elephants in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram yesterday morning.

Record numbers of people yesterday voted in Hong Kong district council elections that the city’s pro-democracy movement hopes will pile pressure on the Beijing-backed government to heed their demands after months of violent protest.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday arrested 32 people on charge of trespassing into Bangladesh from India yesterday.

The BNP will not seek any permission from the government to hold rallies in Dhaka as the government is “not elected by the people’s vote”, said the party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam yesterday.

Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) fear that Myanmar may have a “state policy” to attack the Rohingya population in Rakhine state, said ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Friday.

Spain’s top criminal court is mulling legal action against President Bashar al-Assad’s uncle for laundering hundreds of millions of euros taken from Syrian state coffers, legal documents showed Friday.

Today is the 7th anniversary of Tazreen Fashions tragedy in which at least 113 workers were killed and 172 were injured as fire wrecked the garments factory in November 2012.

Relatives of 58 people slain in the Philippines’ worst political massacre held a tearful vigil Saturday to mark a decade since the killings, voicing anger at the slow pace of justice.

Though his storied career needed no epilogue, Leonard Cohen’s graceful new posthumous album “Thanks for the Dance” offers a satisfying postscript, giving fans one last chance to savor his inimitable poetry.

Pressure mounted Friday on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to end a strike that has effectively shut down Canada’s largest rail network, dragging on an already slowing economy.

Two men trying to cross the Arctic Ocean on skis have run into difficulty as unusually thin ice has lengthened their journey and cut into their rations, their team said yesterday.

At least 29 people were killed in Kenya when their homes were swept away in landslides during ferocious overnight rainstorms, the government said yesterday.

A joint team of Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Army yesterday recovered 13 rocket-propelled grenades, along with some other explosives, from Satchhari forest in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila.

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has revealed for the first time that he will remain neutral in the second Brexit referendum that he has vowed to hold if he becomes prime minister next month.

By keeping the university closed for an indefinite period, the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University and the government are making the students’ future uncertain, Anu Muhammad, professor of JU economics department, said yesterday.