Hundreds of tonnes of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia said yesterday, insisting the country did not want to be a global dumping ground.

A Baghdad court sentenced two more Frenchmen to death yesterday for joining the Islamic State jihadist group, raising the number of French IS members on death row in Iraq to six.

Three African migrants, including one who is 15, were discovered squeezed inside compartments under car dashboards and behind seats at a border crossing from Morocco to Spain, police said yesterday.

Heavy flooding in Paraguay has displaced 70,000 families and is threatening to further inundate the capital Asuncion in the coming weeks, the country’s weather bureau said.

Police are making preparations for a second surrender programme of yaba godfathers and dealers in Cox’s Bazar.

The Alauddin Textile Mills, which had been polluting the Louhajang River in Tangail for long now, has been fined.

Nepalese police arrested suspected Maoist activists after three deadly bomb blasts in Kathmandu killed four men as a general strike disrupted daily life in much of the South Asian nation yesterday, police said.

Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters.

Fear has gripped Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT), as murders are taking place one after another due to alleged inter-party conflicts between local armed groups.

The big centre-right and centre-left blocs in the European Parliament have lost their combined majority as support for liberals, the Greens and nationalists has seen a rise.

Police recovered the body of a female lawyer from her father’s house in Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila early yesterday.

Six Bangladeshis were arrested in Agra by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) for allegedly making fake passports using false documents, a senior official said today.

Thousands of fishermen in the coastal areas are facing tough times as they cannot get the government compensation for a 65-day ban on fishing at sea.

Inspector General of Police Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday asked police officials to check drivers’ licence, fitness certificate of buses and other necessary papers before they begin each journey.

Biman yesterday awarded the seven cockpit and cabin crew members of flight BG-147, which was allegedly exposed to a hijack threat on February 24 on its way to Dubai from Dhaka.

At least ten people died and 19 were injured after carbon dioxide leaked from a cargo ship’s fire prevention system in eastern China, local officials said yesterday.

An Afghan court yesterday sentenced two teenage boys to 30 years in prison for the abduction and killing of a young girl whose brutal murder provoked a national outcry.

Imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has called for an end to hunger strikes by thousands of jailed supporters in Turkey protesting the conditions of his detention, his lawyers said yesterday.

Indian authorities said yesterday two fire department officials had been suspended over a fire at a coaching centre that killed 21 students and one teacher in the western Gujarat state, renewing questions about building safety standards.

A rare all-white panda has been caught on camera at a nature reserve in southwest China, showing albinism exists among wild pandas in the region, state media reported.