Russia probe tests Pence in-the-dark defense

Washington (CNN)New revelations about Michael Flynn's lies to the FBI are laying bare Vice President Mike Pence's in-the-dark strategy when it comes to Russia's election meddling, raising new questions about whether he could have been left in the dark as he has argued for nearly a year.

Khaleda gets bail in graft cases

A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted bail to Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Orphanage Trust and Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Charitable Trust graft cases.

Overcrowding increases risks of disease outbreak in Rohingya camps

Overcrowding has increased the risk of outbreak of diseases at camps of Rohingyas entering Bangladesh to flee ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State of Myanmar. Decongestion of Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar is a critical and immediate need to mitigate the health and safety risks

RESTORING CAPITAL’S CANALS HC asks govt to submit action plan in 6 months

The High Court Division on Monday directed the government to prepare and submit within six months ‘a time-bound action plan’ for the recovery and restoration of the capital’s 50 canals by demarcating their boundaries according to their original flows.

Govt allows activities detrimental to CHT Accord implementation: Santu

Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti president and Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council chairman Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, better known as Santu Larma, on Monday complained that the government had been allowing activities detrimental to the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, 1997.

Udichi activist killed by husband

An activist of Udichi Shilpigoshthi was beaten to death by her husband in her in-law’s residence at Maniknagar in the capital on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Ludmila Ahmed Liza, 38, wife of SM Sazzad, of Maniknagar area in the city

Dinajpur, after five years

IT WAS more than drizzling when I stepped out of the railway station in Dinajpur. I was tired because of the night-time travel. I could hardly sleep the night before. I was looking for a rickshaw to go to my home a little more than a kilometre in the west

Trump calls Roy Moore to offer his endorsement

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday called Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore and endorsed his campaign, fully aligning himself with the embattled Republican candidate eight days before the special election

Time reveals shortlist for Person of the Year

Among the finalists are one of the world's most notorious leaders, the women behind the year's biggest cultural reckoning and -- whether he wants it or not -- President Trump. Trump, who was named Person of the Year in 2016, was nominated again after a tumultuous first year in office.

North Korean soldier: Surgeon says defector 'was like a broken jar'

Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korean surgeon Lee Cook-Jong was already having a busy day in Trauma Bay 1 when he got the call: A US Black Hawk helicopter was on its way with an injured soldier. But it wasn't just any soldier.