A senior US diplomat directly implicated President Donald Trump yesterday in a scheme to force Ukraine to probe a political rival, in bombshell testimony to a televised impeachment hearing.

The local administration last night imposed a three-day ban on holding any public gathering in some areas of Tangail town after two Awami League factions called for programmes at the same spot.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from Dubai last night, wrapping up her four-day visit to the United Arab Emirates, where she attended the Dubai Air Show-2019, among other programmes.

The United States walked out of talks on hiking South Korea’s contribution for American troops on its soil, Seoul said yesterday, as Washington accused its ally of rebuffing a “fair and equitable” agreement.

The UN yesterday harshly criticised President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon three US service members accused of war crimes as a “disturbing signal” to military forces worldwide.

Rights activists yesterday warned of greater curbs on media and online freedom in Russia ahead of a vote on a controversial bill that could lead bloggers and independent journalists to be labelled “foreign agents.”

The law enforcement agencies could not identify three people who were killed in an alleged gunfight.

Gambia will open its case against Myanmar before the UN’s top court in December accusing the mainly Buddhist state of genocide against its Rohingya Muslims, the tribunal said Monday.

Out of favour national pacer Shahadat Hossain was yesterday slapped with a five-year ban, with two years of that suspended, for assaulting his Dhaka Division teammate Arafat Sunny Jnr during a National Cricket League (NCL) match in Khulna on Sunday. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed the sentence, which also included a fine of Tk 3 lakh.

Anti-government protesters holed up in a Hong Kong university were frantically searching for escape routes yesterday after two days of clashes with police and dramatic breakouts by rope and motorcycle.

India’s foreign minister arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday and announced that new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit New Delhi next week.

Football fans prone to seasickness may need to consider alternatives, but supporters with sealegs will be able to stay on one of two giant cruiseliners during the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

A man was arrested yesterday morning on charge of gang-raping a woman in Jamalpur Sadar upazila’s Ramkrishnapur village on Friday night.

The United States on Monday effectively backed Israel’s right to build Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank by abandoning its four-decade-old position that they were “inconsistent with international law,” a stance that may make Israeli-Palestinian peace even more elusive.

The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court verdict that sentenced former BNP state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin to 13 years and his son Mir Mohammad Helaluddin to three years in a corruption case.

Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is expected to visit Bangladesh on Friday to attend the 13th convocation of Brac University to be held at Army Stadium in Dhaka the following day.

One month into the attacks on law enforcers, houses of Hindus and a temple in Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila, police are yet to identify the masterminds behind those or the “hackers” who broke into the Facebook page of Biplob Chandra Baidya.

Accepting the charge sheet against 25 accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case, a Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants for four accused as they were shown fugitives in the charge sheet.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged UAE investors to invest in various sectors in Bangladesh to boost bilateral trade.

A 15-year-old girl was killed after a suspension bridge over a river in southwest France collapsed yesterday, causing a car, a truck and possibly a third vehicle to plunge into the water, local authorities said.