FOREIGNERS KILLING : Japanese team joining hands in investigation

Investigators on Monday said that two foreigners were killed in Dhaka and Rangpur in less than a week by the same entity but different assailants.

SCHOOLBOY SHOOTING : Action ordered against MP on the run

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday ordered law enforcement agencies for actions against ruling Awami League lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton for shooting a nine-year-old schoolboy at Sundarganj in Gaibandha on October 2.

Cricketer Shahadat sent to jail

A Dhaka court on Monday sent national cricketer Kazi Shahadat Hossain to jail rejecting his bail prayer in a case filed in connection with torture of his domestic help. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mohammad Yusuf Hossain passed the order in the afternoon.

Govt was informed about security threats: Bernicat

The US ambassador to Bangladesh, Marcia Bernicat, said on Monday that the government was informed about the security threats to foreigners.

Air attacks kill at least 19 at Afghanistan hospital; U.S. investigating

Aerial bombardments blew apart a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the battleground Afghan city of Kunduz about the time of a U.S. airstrike early Saturday, killing at least 19 people, officials said.

Oregon shooting: Medical examiner rules gunman killed self, sheriff says

Chris Harper-Mercer, the shooter behind the deadly rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, apparently committed suicide after exchanging gunfire with officers, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said Saturday.

Eurotunnel services briefly suspended after 'intrusion' of migrants

Eurotunnel temporarily suspended services between Folkestone and Calais after more than 100 migrants broke into the French side of the terminal, the company said.

Obama: Russia heading for 'quagmire' in Syria

President Barack Obama said Friday that he was willing to work with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on moving Syria away from civil war, but only if that plan includes removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.

Trump: Armed teachers could have stopped Oregon massacre

Donald Trump said Saturday that had teachers been armed at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, the deadly shooting there this week would not have been as tragic.

Yet another foreigner shot to death

A Japanese national was shot dead by assailants near his farmhouse in Rangpur Saturday morning less than a week of the killing of another foreign national in Dhaka, prompting police to issue a fresh alert across the country to keep foreign nationals safe.