It is the local Awami League leaders and their allies who are actually enforcing the transport strikes in divisional cities right before the BNP rallies, while ministers keep insisting that transport associations are independent.
Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered from the debris of an apartment block in Russia that partially collapsed in an apparent explosion, while 13 people remained unaccounted for, the regional emergencies ministry says.
Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson says he will work toward securing the release of two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar in his capacity as a member of an international advisory board on the crisis in Rakhine state.
Britain's Supreme Court rules the UK government must win parliament's approval before beginning Brexit negotiations, in a landmark judgement that also says regional lawmakers have no say.
