About 49,000 migrants have entered into Spain’s North African territory of Ceuta from Morocco in the last 24 hours via wall scaling and through sea, while 18 lost lives during process, Officials estimate. According to a report by BBC, videos taken by locals and images show thousands of people, swimming into the city of Ceuta on Thursday. Local media reported ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapon said on Friday that no direct, indirect, visible or invisible conspiracy to divide the nation on the basis of religion, ethnicity, locality, language, race or gender will be allowed to succeed. “If anyone seeks to use followers of any religion for political or personal interests, or attempts to grab state machinery through religion, ...

Franco Baresi, one of football’s greatest defenders and an Italian legend, has died at the age of 66. He was AC Milan’s captain and sweeper. Baresi spent his entire professional career with one club for two decades. This legendary man was an inseparable part of Milan’s history. Baresi played 719 matches for AC Milan between 1977 and 1997. His bond ...

India is examining Bangladesh’s request for the extradition of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the government has told a parliamentary panel, more than eight months after Dhaka made the request, even as MPs urged New Delhi to use Bangladesh’s political transition to reset bilateral ties. The Ministry of External Affairs’ written response, contained in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External ...

Bangladesh’s ex-minister SM Rezaul Karim was confronted by a former leader of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in London, where he faced sharp criticism over allegations of enforced disappearances, killings and political repression during the previous Awami League government’s tenure. A video circulating on social media yesterday shows the former JCD leader accusing Rezaul Karim of remaining silent over what ...

A written complaint has been lodged with Habiganj Sadar Model Police Station against 10 leaders of the National Citizen Party (NCP), including the party’s Chief Coordinator Nasir Uddin Patwary and Northern Region Chief Organiser Sarjis Alam, accusing them of attempted murder, assault, vandalism and robbery. Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Zahidul Haque confirmed the matter on Friday. The complaint was submitted at ...

The Bangladesh Jewellers’ Association (BAJUS) has increased gold prices in the domestic market once again, raising the price of 22-carat gold by Tk2,216 per bhori. Under the revised rates, one bhori (11.664 grams) of 22-carat gold will now cost Tk223,074, including VAT. The new prices came into effect from 10:00am on Friday. In a statement, BAJUS said the latest adjustment ...

A seven-year-old boy who died a week after being rescued from the sea “never failed to bring happiness” to others, his father has told the BBC. Musa Ahmed and five relatives got into difficulty in the water in West Mersea on 22 July, having travelled to the Essex seaside from east London. His 15-year-old cousin, Sameeha Rahman, and her mother ...

The demolition of a south-east London estate has been put on hold after a resident won a High Court legal battle to have the plans scrutinised. A judicial review will now be held into whether Bexley Council was given all of the required information when it made the decision to approve Peabody Housing Association’s proposal to demolish the Lesnes Estate ...

Record-breaking heatwaves in May and June led to an estimated 2,877 excess deaths in England, the UK Health Security Agency said Wednesday. The provisional figure is almost double the total for the whole of the summer in 2025, which was 1,504, and represents “a substantial public health impact,” the Ukhsa government agency said. “These figures highlight the significant danger that ...