Pakistan arrested at least eight Chinese nationals for allegedly luring young Pakistani girls into fake marriages then forcing them into prostitution in China, authorities confirmed to AFP yesterday.

Cyprus’s new police chief yesterday issued the force’s first apology for its handling of the killings of seven foreign women and girls, acknowledging officers had failed to protect them.

The leading conservative candidate in European elections this month, Manfred Weber, said yesterday that Hungary was going in the “wrong direction” under Viktor Orban after the anti-immgration prime minister withdrew his support for him.

An Egyptian court yesterday upheld the death sentences of 13 Islamic militants for attacks against security forces, a judicial official said.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad may visit Bangladesh sometime later this year, according to foreign ministry officials.

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested or killed all the jihadists responsible for Easter suicide bombings, but the island still faces the threat of IS terror attacks, the prime minister said yesterday.

Two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison yesterday, freed in a presidential amnesty after a vigorous global campaign -- and backroom diplomacy -- for their release.

Health condition of national award-winning singer Subir Nandi deteriorated once again yesterday as he had suffered from multiple organ failure at Singapore General Hospital.

A madrasa teacher has been suspended for allegedly sexually harassing three minor girls of his institution in Dinajpur’s Parbatipur upazila.

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, gave birth to a boy yesterday, the seventh-in-line to the throne and described by his proud father as “absolutely to die for”.

The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow’s busiest airport, killing 41 people, said lightning led to the emergency landing.

For the last couple of months, butchers have been increasing beef prices, claiming extortion on highways and poor supply of cattle.

After passing the civil service exam in 2015, young physician Nuzhat Islam* was excited about being posted at an upazila health complex in Tangail. The experiences that followed, however, were unpleasant enough to puncture the joy with which she joined work.

Services at Narail Sadar Hospital have improved to some extent over the last one week with the attending doctors making sure that no one is absent there.

Social Democrat Laurentino Cortizo won Panama’s presidential election Sunday in a close race that saw a large number of voters turn out amid concerns over corruption scandals and the country’s image as a money-launderer’s paradise.

A former Goldman Sachs banker has been extradited from Malaysia to the United States to face charges linked to the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a source and reports said yesterday.

US officials pressed Turkey on Sunday against going forward with plans to start exploratory drilling for oil and gas off Cyprus, labeled as illegal by the European Union.

Although she was born without three limbs out of the four, her indomitable spirit to pursue education could not be hindered.

The High Court yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over the failure to implement one of its directives from 2009 that committees must be formed at all educational institutions and workplaces across the country for the prevention of sexual harassment.

France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen reached out to her counterparts in Hungary and Poland, both already in government, during a European elections campaign meeting in Brussels.