Yemeni rebels have said they are ready to mobilise more fighters to the frontline despite a lull in battleground Hodeida, as the UN envoy prepares to visit the country to boost peace efforts.

Nigerian troops repelled an attack on a military base in northeastern Borno state in which a soldier was killed and four others were injured, military and militia sources told AFP Saturday.

Saudi King Salman yesterday welcomed Iraq's new President Barham Saleh on his first official visit to the kingdom, amid a warming of ties between the Arab neighbours after years of strain.

Air strikes by the US-led coalition yesterday killed 43 people, mostly civilians, in a holdout of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a Britain-based monitor said.

The fourth Dhaka International Folk Fest 2018 concluded on a high note yesterday, producing some of the best soundscapes of the grand event.

A convicted robber, also an alleged drug peddler, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Sreenagar upazila early yesterday.

The 11th parliamentary election has already seen thousands of nomination-seekers -- from retired public servants, businessmen, actors, singers, cricketers, footballers, labour leaders to bona fide politicians -- lining up to become a lawmaker.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia may file separate appeals this week challenging her conviction and jail sentence in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases with an aim to contest the upcoming parliamentary polls.

After years of neglect and a bit of experiment, the government is set to make rainwater harvesting mandatory.

Shahriar Shahid, managing editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), passed away in the capital's Apollo Hospitals yesterday. He was 55.

US rights activists criticised the current human rights and political situation in Bangladesh and expressed worries about the treatment of religious minority groups and children before the upcoming national election.

The US Central Intelligence Agency has concluded Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US media reported Friday, citing people close to the matter.

At least nine Rohingya refugees were injured as a gas cylinder, used for inflating balloons, blasted at a camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday morning.

The Election Commission (EC) yesterday sent a letter to the Inspector General of Police seeking a report on the clash between BNP activists and law enforcers in front of the party's Nayapaltan office on November 14.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was forced to defend her refugee policy on Friday in a highly anticipated visit to an eastern city hit by xenophobic protests that shocked the country earlier this year.

The fight over President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general has reached the US Supreme Court, with lawyers in a pending gun rights case asking the justices on Friday to decide if the action was lawful.

A masterful swimming pool painting by British legend David Hockney sold for $90.3 million in New York on Thursday, smashing a new auction record for a living artist.

A child was killed after a portion of a building's wall collapsed following a gas explosion in the capital's Jatrabari area yesterday morning. Six others also suffered burn injures.

Two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide yesterday, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal regime that presided over the deaths of a quarter of the population.

At least 11 people were reported dead yesterday as a powerful cyclone battered India's eastern coast, authorities said.