Monday, Sep 7, 2026

• BNP acting secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told an emergency press conference at Nayapaltan that Jamaat-e-Islami should raise its grievances over gas and energy policy in parliament rather than on the streets, and accused the party of "encouraging those who are making personally abusive, offensive and obscene remarks" about the prime minister. The Daily Star
• Bangladesh Bank raised the annual foreign travel foreign-exchange quota for adults from $12,000 to $18,000, while keeping the physical dollar-cash limit at $5,000 per person and setting the minors' entitlement at half the adult rate. The Daily Star
• Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury told parliament's Question Hour, chaired by Deputy Speaker Kayser Kamal, that "the identity of an individual is separate from the identity of an institution," defending continued lending to S Alam Group entities even as the group's owner faces corruption charges. Prothom Alo
• Opposition MPs led by Shafiqur Rahman walked out of parliament for the second time over the National Human Rights Commission Bill and the Prevention and Redress of Enforced Disappearance Bill, arguing the laws had been weakened from the ordinances the interim government had enacted. The Speaker responded: "Thank you for walking out." Prothom Alo
• Three prisoners from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, Abul Bashar (58), Abdul Qayyum (62) and Md Shahadat Hossain Liton (52), died within roughly 100 minutes of each other while under treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on the morning of 6 September. Prothom Alo
• The president accepted appeals from 20 National Board of Revenue officials, including Commissioner Zakir Hossain, and cancelled the suspensions and pay-grade demotions they had received for taking part in a 2025 revenue-sector reform protest movement. Prothom Alo

• The Pakistan Information Commission ruled that the National Assembly speaker's 2022 classification of NA Secretariat employee records cannot be used to deny a right-to-information request from journalist Saddia Mazhar, since the ruling gave no reasoning for why disclosure would outweigh public interest, and ordered the records released within 10 days. Dawn
• Pakistan People's Party candidate Akhtar Abbas Nashad won the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly by-election in Skardu's GBA-09 by 305 votes, reclaiming the seat previously held by his father Fida Muhammad Nashad, who had been disqualified by the GB Supreme Appellate Court after the June general election. Dawn
• The Inter-Services Public Relations said security forces killed more than 20 "Fitna-al-Khawarij" militants in engagements between 3 and 5 September in North Waziristan, Kohat and Dera Ismail Khan, and again blamed Afghanistan's Taliban government for failing to deny the group use of Afghan soil. Dawn
• Pakistan's Foreign Office condemned the demolition of a roughly 150-year-old mosque in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, calling it part of an "Islamophobic and Hindutva-driven campaign to erase the Islamic heritage" and invoking the 1992 Babri mosque demolition. Dawn
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi said "I will not take a single step out of Sindh without launching a street movement in Karachi," as his convoy pushed toward the city on a five-day Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf mobilisation tour; police, who closed roads around Mazar-i-Quaid, detained 150-200 party workers trying to reach the site. Dawn
• Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf said former finance minister Hammad Azhar was arrested in Punjab and called it "political vengeance," but the Multan Regional Police Officer and a Lahore Investigation SSP both said they had no information about any such arrest; Azhar is wanted in cases linked to the 9 May 2023 riots. Dawn

• President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said the 22nd Amendment to the constitution would be approved by parliament soon after the Supreme Court communicates its determination to the Speaker. Daily Mirror
• President Dissanayake announced a new primary healthcare-based system meant to cut down on unnecessary hospital visits and change how patients access hospitals and specialists. Daily Mirror
• Addressing a rally in Bulathsinhala marking two years of his government, President Dissanayake said Sri Lanka loses about $1 billion a year through illicit financial channels (which he called "almost equivalent to Sri Lanka's annual tea export earnings"), credited the Criminal Investigation Department and Sri Lanka Customs for tackling it, and noted government revenue reached 16.7% of GDP in 2025, the highest in decades. News First
• Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna General Secretary Tilvin Silva said those convicted of misappropriating public funds must go to prison regardless of political background. Daily Mirror
• Minister of Public Security Ananda Wijepala warned that drug pills have spread into schools in both Colombo and rural areas, citing that roughly 70% of the country's prison inmates, about 40,000 people, face drug-related charges, and announced a special school prevention programme at an event at Kobeigane National School. News First
• The UN Human Rights Council's 63rd session opened in Geneva on 7 September and runs through 7 October, with a UN human rights report on Sri Lanka scheduled to be presented during the session. News First

• In Aamachhodingmo Rural Municipality, Rasuwa district, cut off since the 26 August flood on the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers destroyed roads and bridges, residents say food supplies including salt, oil and rice have run out and medical aid is unavailable; rural municipality chair Buchung Tamang warned "a famine-like situation could arise." At least 203 people are listed missing from that municipality alone, part of roughly 5,000 missing and over 1,300 confirmed dead across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. The Kathmandu Post
• Shares of hydropower companies including Rasuwagadhi Hydropower, Chilime Hydropower, Mailung Khola Hydropower and Trishuli 3B Hydropower fell after the 26 August flood, dragging the Nepal Stock Exchange's hydropower sub-index down roughly 65 points, though a former Stock Brokers Association president said the reaction reflected initial panic rather than sector-wide losses. The Kathmandu Post
• The closure of the Krishnabhir section of the Mugling-Naubise road on the Prithvi Highway, Kathmandu Valley's main supply route, has cut LPG deliveries to about 5% of the valley's daily demand of 35,000-40,000 cylinders, pushing up prices and leading restaurant owners such as Ghangri Cafe's Suroj Raj Rajkarnikar to warn of closure; Nepal Oil Corporation managing director Nagendra Sah drew criticism for comparing cooking-gas prices to mutton costs. The Kathmandu Post

Bhutan is omitted: Kuensel's and The Bhutanese's most recent verifiable articles were from 2 September and older, outside the recency window, after full escalation on both (see Sources below).

• Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano erupted, sending ash 6,000-15,000 metres high and forcing Soekarno-Hatta International Airport near Jakarta to suspend flights on 6 September, with Singapore Airlines cancelling two flights and delaying two more. Al Jazeera
• Malaysia declared a state of emergency in Sarawak's Serian district as air pollution from Indonesian wildfires closed 647 schools, with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's government also ordering government offices, plantations and construction sites to suspend work. Al Jazeera
• A Quezon City court issued an arrest warrant for Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on three charges of "grave threat" after she allegedly threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, his wife and Martin Romualdez killed; bail was set at $1,900 per charge (reported 4 September). Al Jazeera

• Kenya's government began a crackdown on foreign nationals running small retail shops and hawking businesses, with analysts including Hesbon Hansen Owilla of Aga Khan University saying Nairobi wants to admit "only investors bringing capital that can spur economic development" rather than small-time traders. Al Jazeera
• Niger's military government accused France of orchestrating a failed mutiny in which renegade soldiers attacked Base 101 near Niamey's airport before troops and Russian paramilitary forces put it down; French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot called the accusation "a way of wrongly blaming France for something it is simply not responsible for." Al Jazeera
• A fire at a wedding party in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed 22 people, and authorities have launched an investigation. Al Jazeera
• An illegal chrome mine collapse near Rustenburg, South Africa, killed 14 miners, exposing an underground economy in which criminal networks allegedly take 70% of earnings from migrant workers from Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Mozambique; police have charged 63 people in connection with illegal mining under Operation Vala Umgodi. Al Jazeera
• The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North's al-Hilu faction was blamed for attacks in Dilling and near Kauda in South Kordofan that killed at least 26 people, including a child, prompting the Sudan Doctors Network to call for international pressure to stop attacks on the Otoro minority group. Al Jazeera
• Nearly four years after the Pretoria Agreement ended Ethiopia's Tigray war, the Tigray People's Liberation Front has repositioned itself politically and militarily while retaining armed structures, with roughly 1.9 million people still displaced by the earlier conflict. Al Jazeera
• Tunisian authorities arrested Mohamed Yousfi, editor-in-chief of investigative outlet Al-Qatiba and a critic of President Kais Saied, days after Tunisia's Court of Cassation upheld 12-year sentences against 40 opposition figures and activists; lawyer Haifa Chebbi said the ruling "confirms that the judiciary is not independent" (reported 4 September). Al Jazeera

• Colombia's ELN rebel group used roughly 20 explosive-laden drones to attack a military post in Ocana, killing three soldiers and injuring four; President Abelardo de la Espriella vowed to bring "the full weight and legitimate force of the State" against the attackers. Al Jazeera
• Six Cuban and Afghan nationals deported from the United States under a third-country programme arrived in Guyana, whose Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud said Washington "has not made any further requests" for further transfers; none of the six had criminal records. Al Jazeera
• Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez said US ground military operations could strengthen her country's security, while stressing no deployment is planned and any move would require legislative approval. Al Jazeera
• Twin blasts at a military base storing pyrotechnic material in Viacha, Bolivia, killed two people and left 14 missing, including 13 conscripts aged 18 to 19; Defence Minister Ernesto Justiniano said evacuated residents cannot yet return because "some houses were damaged by the shockwave." Al Jazeera
• US forces sank three Ecuadorian vessels in the Eastern Pacific in what Washington called an anti-drug operation, recovering 28 crew members; Ecuador's interior minister called it "work carried out through international cooperation," while a crew member's wife told Reuters the men had been fishing and no drugs were found. Al Jazeera

• Palestinian farmers in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, described settlers releasing livestock onto their fields and the military demanding permits to access their own land, amid 11,074 recorded settler and military attacks in the West Bank in the first half of 2026. Al Jazeera
• Adidas faced boycott calls after featuring former Israeli soldier Shalev Biton, who lost a leg in 2021, in an ad for its single-shoe amputee service; activist Stephanie Westbrook said the campaign would "normalise Israel's crimes against Palestinians." Al Jazeera
• Yemen's internationally recognised government said its forces made major gains against the Houthis in Hodeidah and Taiz provinces; Presidential Council chairman Rashad al-Alimi warned of Houthi "complete collapse," as fighting displaced roughly 1,800 families in two days and killed more than 60 people in Saturday clashes in Taiz. Al Jazeera
• Palestinians in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood held funerals for around 100 people, including 60 children, recovered from rubble; civil defence head Raed al-Dahshan said rescue workers lack basic protective equipment, and a UN official said thousands remain buried. Al Jazeera
• Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon killed at least four people and wounded 20 in Arab Salim, Nabatieh, Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Kfar Reman, which Israel said were a response to Hezbollah drones; Hezbollah called the strikes evidence of "complete international silence and blatant American complicity." Al Jazeera
• A Cairo court sentenced Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 others to death over an organised drug-trafficking ring that imported materials to manufacture synthetic narcotics, with more than 750kg of narcotics seized; Khalifa told the court "I don't need drug money." Al Jazeera
• The US State Department said it "does not support any plan" for forced displacement from Gaza, after Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said "there is no real solution for Gaza without this migration" (reported 4 September). Al Jazeera

• Exit polls showed the far-right Alternative for Germany winning the election in Saxony-Anhalt, which would make it the first far-right party to lead a German state government since the Second World War, with the party framing the result as "a stepping stone towards its larger ambition" of the 2029 federal election. Al Jazeera
• The Israeli Chamber of Commerce opened an office in Banja Luka, capital of Bosnia's Republika Srpska entity, with former Republika Srpska leader Milorad Dodik hosting Israeli Ambassador Galit Peleg; analyst Davor Gjenero warned the move could deepen tensions with the rest of Bosnia and complicate its EU membership prospects. Al Jazeera
• An opinion piece noted Reform UK won 23 of 101 seats on Birmingham City Council in the May 2026 local elections even though the Green Party won the most votes citywide, with 44.4% of the city's children living in poverty and Reform having received about £15 million in large donations in the first half of 2026. Al Jazeera

• A fireworks cache stored inside a church ignited during a festival in Santa Maria Canchesda, Temascalcingo, in central Mexico, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 60. Al Jazeera
• A 21 Air-operated Amazon cargo Boeing 767 overran the runway and caught fire while landing at Miami International Airport from San Juan, Puerto Rico, prompting a full ground stop; the airline said no details on injuries have been released. Al Jazeera
• The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court to allow mail-in ballot restrictions after federal judge Indira Talwani blocked the US Postal Service from enforcing the related order, ruling it "threatens disenfranchisement of millions" of voters. Al Jazeera
• Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed addressed the Annual Islamic Society Conference in Detroit on Muslim American identity, saying "we find ourselves in a moment where they want to tell us we don't belong," ahead of his race against Republican Mike Rogers. Al Jazeera
• The Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA Inc filed a $10 million television and digital ad campaign against Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, who is running against Republican Ken Paxton; Trump has pledged $400-500 million through the group for the midterms (reported 5 September). Al Jazeera