Her tent is bare, she’s unemployed and her family relies on food donations. But Nihaya Issa was forced to pick an Iraqi camp over the unliveable ruins of her native city Mosul.

Nauru’s president, a strong supporter of Australia’s hardline policy of detaining refugees on the tiny Pacific island nation, has lost his seat in a general election, official results showed yesterday.

An Iranian court has sentenced writer and satirist Kioomars Marzban to 11 years in prison after convicting him of charges including cooperation with the United States, state media reported.

The High Court yesterday ruled that the word “Kumari” (virgin) cannot be used before the bride’s name in “Kabinnama”, the Muslim marriage deed.

A mother of two has first been raped at her home and then tortured at a local arbitration in Dinajpur’s Biral upazila, alleged locals.

A man died in police custody three hours after his arrest yesterday afternoon in Nasirnagar upazila.

Iran has test fired a new missile, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Major General Hossein Salami, said on Saturday, according to the Tasnim news agency.

A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by members of Border Security Force (BSF) of India in Uttar Dimai border area of Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila early yesterday.

A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man in Jashore’s Chowgachha upazila yesterday.

A mob beat a vegetable hawker dead in Chuadanga, minutes after he stabbed a villager to death and injured two others yesterday morning, police said.

Yemen’s southern separatists declared a ceasefire in their clashes with government forces in the oil-producing province of Shabwa after two days of fighting.

Welsh fishmonger Lenny Walters has a warning for Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he celebrates his one-month anniversary in office yesterday.

President Donald Trump is challenging a federal appeals court decision that ruled he violated the US Constitution by blocking people whose views he disliked from his Twitter account.

Norway’s Conservative Party Prime Minister Erna Solberg has set a Monday deadline for the three junior partners in her coalition to decide whether they should remain in her government.

Her family wanted to marry her off to a 15-year-old boy on Friday night.

President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized the deployment of Brazil’s armed forces to help combat fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, as a growing global outcry over the blazes sparks protests and threatens a huge trade deal.

The number of dengue patients reported at hospitals has been decreasing over last three weeks, said hospital sources and health professionals.

Eight people were killed and 18 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch smashing through the railing of a bridge in Faridpur sadar upazila yesterday.

Production at Karnaphuli Paper Mills has remained suspended since August 6, causing the country’s lone state-owned paper mill a loss of over Tk 5 crore.

Paris, the United Nations and EU called for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil’s right-wing president accused his French counterpart of having a “colonialist mentality” over the issue.