A last-minute US warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker preparing to leave Gibraltar after weeks of detention cast doubt over its departure yesterday, prolonging a diplomatic spat between Tehran, London and Washington.

Two suspected criminals were beaten to death by a mob near Sondah canal in Pabna’s Santhia upazila early yesterday.

Putting emphasis on advancing the country’s medical science further, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government will do whatever is necessary to develop the field.

Each judge of the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division is burdened with more than 3,140 cases on average as some 22,000 cases are pending with this court.

The BNP has decided to draw the international community’s attention to the issue of Khaleda Zia’s release and proper treatment.

President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said on Friday that he was “happy” to testify before the Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee as part of a congressional investigation of the Trump presidency.

Tanners will start buying rawhide from merchants today amid a slump in prices and dumping of 35 percent rawhide after the Eid-ul-Azha. “We have already conveyed the message to our members that we will start buying salt-applied rawhide from tomorrow [today].

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the debt of Bangabandhu’s blood would have to be repaid by materialising his dream of building a poverty and hunger-free “Golden Bangladesh”. “We’ll build that Golden Bangladesh and this is our pledge,” she said.

A group of UN human rights experts yesterday called for the immediate release of three Iranian women given long jail terms for protesting laws compelling women to wear veils.

Sudan’s military rulers and protest leaders are scheduled to sign a landmark deal reached after a bloody uprising which is meant to pave the way for civilian rule.

Riot police in Zimbabwe yesterday fired teargas and beat demonstrators during a crackdown on opposition supporters who have taken to Harare’s streets despite a protest ban.

Police on Thursday rescued a child -- who had been abducted and sold a day ago -- from Sunamganj’s Jamalganj upazila and arrested two people in this connection.

A charity rescue ship carrying 134 migrants, mostly Africans, waited off the coast of Italy yesterday as a battle between former political allies in Rome stopped it docking at the southern island of Lampedusa.

More mental hospitals are needed to take potential mass killers off the streets, President Donald Trump said Thursday in response to recent mass shootings, while staying quiet on a pledge to toughen gun laws.

President Donald Trump is asking advisers if it is possible for the US to buy Greenland, according to a report.

Malaysia’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, on Monday faces the biggest of five trials linked to a multi-billion-dollar scam at state fund 1MDB, although lawyers are seeking a delay to allow time for the completion of a previous trial.

Public examinations will now take less time than before as the government looks to increase academic hours.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has called for urgent investment in education of the Rohingya children who live at different refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Noted novelist Rizia Rahman died at a hospital in the city yesterday. She was 79. Rizia breathed her last at Apollo Hospitals in the morning, said an of-ficial release.

A police constable has been sued on charge of raping his girlfriend in Gaibandha. The victim’s mother filed the case against Constable of Rangpur range Abu Bakkar Siddiqui and his aide Aminul Islam, with Gaibandha Sadar Police Station Thursday.