Japan has sanctioned four Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The UAE sentences 57 Bangladeshi expatriates to lengthy prison terms for staging protest in the Persian Gulf Arab country against their government.

China and the Philippines have reached a provisional deal on resupply missions to a grounded Filipino ship in the South China Sea, amid efforts to ease maritime tensions.

The Supreme Court ordered that the quota for veterans’ descendants be cut to 5 percent, with 93 percent of jobs to be allocated on merit.

Bangladesh's top court is set to rule on the legality of disputed job quotas as authorities have extended a curfew across the country on Sunday.

A protest organizer says the University of Melbourne is punishing students for having challenged its "complicity in the genocide in Gaza.”

Soldiers have been deployed in Bangladeshi cities to quell civil disorder triggered by student protests, with riot police firing on demonstrators who disobeyed a government-imposed curfew.

Bangladesh has imposed a curfew and deployed military forces after police failed to control days of violent protests that have spread throughout the country.

Public rallies have been banned by the police in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka following the most fatal day of continuous student protests, during which government buildings were set on fire by demonstrators and a nationwide internet blackout was enforced, killing dozens, and injuring thousands.

Bangladeshi students have set fire to the country's state broadcaster amid escalating clashes that have killed at least 32 people.