BANGLADESH: Supporters of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina were blocked from rallying in the capital today.

Activists from the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, which helped overthrow Ms Hasina’s Awami League, and the Jamaat-e-Islami party rallied in the square as League supporters tried to commemorate the 1987 killing of one of their historical leaders, with student movement groups leading hunts for suspected League supporters and attacking them through the capital.

PAKISTAN: At least 26 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in Quetta in Balochistan on Saturday.

“Over a dozen” soldiers and six railway staff were among the dead, officials said, while over 60 people were wounded. The attack was claimed by the separatist Balochistan Liberation Army.

YEMEN: A soldier serving in the army of the exiled government opened fire on Saudi troops in a joint exercise in the east, killing two, officials said at the weekend.

Saudi Arabia fought a bloody but unsuccessful war to restore the government, overthrown by the Houthi movement, from 2015-22; a ceasefire has largely held since China mediated between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis’ backer Iran early last year.

IRAN: International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mariano Grossi will travel to the country this week for talks on its nuclear programme.

Mr Grossi said today he hoped progress could be made on a 2023 statement on nuclear inspections, part of efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal torn up by the US the last time Donald Trump was president.

It is unclear what a new Trump presidency will mean for Iran. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he and Mr Trump see “eye to eye” on the country.