Two alleged drug peddlers and three suspected robbers were killed in three separate “gunfights” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox's Bazar and Munshiganj yesterday.

Bangladesh cannot accept any more refugees from Myanmar, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told a UN Security Council meeting.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi has told Al Jazeera that Bangladesh is not a “one-party state”.

A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines made an “emergency precaution landing” in Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport yesterday as one of the aircraft's tyres burst.

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday the military alliance needs to be ready for a world with more Russian missiles, after a UN warning that the global arms control system is collapsing.

The wife of a Myanmar military officer was killed by a pipe bomb as they moved into a new home in northern Rakhine state, the army said yesterday, as the body count in the troubled region rises with landmines and assassinations.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has urged Prime Minister Theresa May to delay Britain's departure from the European Union, warning time has run out to rework her withdrawal agreement.

Dutch prosecutors said yesterday that they are preparing to file criminal charges against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over suspected corruption in the attribution of Nigerian oil exploration rights in 2011.

Estonia's centre-left coalition is fighting for survival in a general election Sunday, challenged by its traditional liberal rival but also a far-right party boosted by a backlash from mostly rural regions in the Baltic eurozone state.

Mayor-elect of Dhaka North City Corporation Atiqul Islam called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Gono Bhaban yesterday evening.

Two suspected forest bandits and an alleged drug peddler were killed in two separate “gunfights” with Rab and BGB men in Satkhira and Cox's Bazar yesterday.

As of December last year, there were 2,66,118 loan defaulters in the country, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal informed parliament yesterday.

Director General of Press Institute of Bangladesh Shah Alamgir passed away yesterday at the age of 62.

Kurdish-led fighters yesterday readied for a final onslaught against jihadist fighters who have been defending the last patch of their "caliphate" in eastern Syria.

The US-North Korea nuclear summit in Hanoi ended abruptly without a deal yesterday, with President Donald Trump saying he had decided to "walk" in the face of Kim Jong Un's demands to drop sanctions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday praised the courage and intelligence of the pilot, co-pilot and cabin crew of the Biman aircraft which was attempted to be hijacked on February 24.

The Montreal-based UN aviation agency concealed for months a hack on its computers and allowed the malware to spread throughout the airline industry, Canada's public broadcaster reported Wednesday.

Branded a criminal by a former friend in Washington, then let down by his new friend Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, Donald Trump cut a lonely figure before returning home from North Korea nuclear talks yesterday.

A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer went missing after he was scheduled to be released from jail yesterday following a two-year prison sentence for state subversion charges, said rights activists.

Bangladesh has underscored the importance of geopolitics to improve global migration governance in the context of the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.