Bangladesh will soon receive a gift of 2.5 million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the US, said US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller.

One Spanish and two Ethiopian employees of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, the organisation said Friday.

Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from Covid-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said on Friday, condemning a global failure.

The Myanmar military regime has organised a new legal team, led by its Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin, to present the defense in the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

A critically endangered giant barking deer has been spotted in Cambodia for the first time, in a boost for the country’s wildlife preservation efforts, officials said Friday.

A 40-year-old man, who was once a member of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), was taken from his home and stabbed dead in the early hours today in Dighinala, Khagrachhari.

A contractor has allegedly threatened a railway engineer publicly for not complying with his wishes of using poor materials in a road construction project in Kurigram.

Two teenage girls were raped by a youth in a village of Cox’s Bazar Chakaria upazila on Tuesday night, police said.

The Pakistan army attacked at least five villages within 30 miles of Dhaka in the last four days, killing Hindu men and burning homes and markets in pre-dawn raids, reported Washington Star on June 28, 1971.

Pineapples grown in Tangail’s Madhupur are known to be delicious, but most farmers this time are using excessive hormone to grow bigger fruits and ripe them ahead of time.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for creating stronger and inclusive international cooperation to mitigate water-related disasters for a resilient and sustainable post-Covid-19 world.

Damage to Sri Lanka’s marine environment from a sinking chemical ship is worse than feared, officials said yesterday, as more dead turtles, dolphins and whales washed up on the island’s beaches.

Turkey yesterday expressed disappointment after an EU summit ended with a critical statement about Ankara’s rights record and no clear progress on a customs treaty or committment on aid.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally announced Thursday that lawmakers will create a select committee to investigate the deadly US Capitol riot, weeks after Senate Republicans blocked formation of a bipartisan, 9/11-style commission.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said the nation should be prepared with skills, education and infrastructure as a major shift is taking place in the world economy.

The World Bank’s board of executive directors has approved a $191 million credit to Bangladesh and a $18 million grant to Afghanistan to help the countries strengthen their higher education sector and respond better to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A ventilator “bank” where hospitals can rent critical care machines for Covid-19 patients has given Nepal’s cash-strapped healthcare system a much-needed lifeline.

Australia and Israel, which had been successful in fending off Covid-19, reimposed restrictions yesterday as cases surged of the highly contagious Delta variant which also threatened Africa with a brutal third wave.

Twenty-one houses recently built in Jamalpur’s Sarishabari upazila under a government project for the homeless are already inundated following the recent rains.

Awami League nominee Aga Khan Mintu has been declared elected unopposed in the by-polls to Dhaka-14.