DHAKA:   A Shillong court of India’s Meghalaya state acquitted BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed in a case filed for trespassing into Indian territory. Confirming the matter to Banglanews, BNP Chairperson’s press wing member Shayrul Kabir Khan said: “Following announcement of the

CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed President Trump on Thursday about her trip this week to Turkey, where she listened to audio purportedly capturing the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi Arabia appeared to acknowledge that its agents had murdered the dissident Saudi journalist in a

A 39-year-old woman has been detained by police for injuring at least 14 children with a knife at a kindergarten in Chongqing on Friday morning, reported Chongqing Broadcasting Group. The stabbing occurred at Yudong New Century Kindergarten in Chongqing’s Banan District. Police

The killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate was premeditated, the country's attorney general said Thursday. According to the statement posted by the Saudi state news agency, the latest evolution in the official version of events

The Titanic II, a replica of the ill-fated ship that sank in the Atlantic, will set sail on the same journey in 2022. The ship will embark on a two-week-long maiden voyage, travelling from Dubai to Southampton, before tracing the original ship’s journey to New York. The

UN investigators said on Wednesday that Myanmar has continued its campaign of “genocide” against Rohingya Muslims remaining in the country, as the Security Council for the first time ever was briefed by a human-rights envoy on a specific country. The evidence pointed to systematic

Hong Kong based airline Cathay Pacific says the personal data of up to 9.4 million passengers have been accessed in the latest security breach to hit the aviation industry. Passport numbers, email addresses and expired credit card details were among the data leaked. Chief executive

The Saudi crown prince has vowed to punish all the "culprits" responsible for the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. Speaking at a business forum in Riyadh, Mohammed bin Salman said "the crime was painful to all Saudis" but he would never allow any rift with Turkey. The

Suspected explosive devices were sent to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former US President Barack Obama, the US Secret Service has said. It comes two days after a bomb was found at the home of liberal philanthropist and financier George Soros in the suburbs of New York

President Donald Trump offered his most stinging indictment yet of a Saudi effort to silence a dissident journalist, calling the series of events that led to Jamal Khashoggi's death "the worst cover up ever." "The cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups," Trump

US President Donald Trump has called Saudi Arabia's response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi "the worst cover-up ever". He added that whoever organised the plot "should be in big trouble". Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, shortly afterwards, that the US "will

The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned days in advance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told MPs from his ruling party. He said Turkey had strong evidence Khashoggi was killed in a premeditated and "savage" murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2

Parts of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi's body have been found at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a Turkish opposition leader claims. Dogu Perincek, leader of Turkey's Rodina party, claimed in an interview that body parts were discovered in a well on the grounds of the

Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the long-delayed and over-budget Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge on Tuesday, billed as a major step forward in China's plan to turn the Pearl River Delta into a technology hub to rival Silicon Valley. But critics worry the 55km-long bridge

Australia's government on Tuesday unveiled sanctions against five officers in Myanmar's powerful military who are accused of overseeing barbaric violence against members of the Rohingya ethnic group. Following similar actions by the United States and the European Union,

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called the son of Jamal Khashoggi, the kingdom announced early Monday, to express condolences for the death of the journalist killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by officials that allegedly included a member of the royal’s entourage. King

Hundreds of people gathered in Canberra on Monday to hear Mr Morrison deliver the emotional address in parliament. It follows a five-year inquiry which found tens of thousands of children had suffered abuse in the nation's institutions over decades. "Today, we finally

According to a statement by the presidential press office, Erdoğan and Trump agreed all aspects surrounding the death of Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, need to be brought to light. Erdoğan said earlier Sunday he would reveal the

A train derailment in northeastern Taiwan on Sunday killed at least 17 people and injured 126, government authorities said. The accident took place on Sunday afternoon in Yilan County near the coast, with several carriages overturned on a railway popular among tourists. "As of

The US will withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, President Donald Trump has confirmed. Speaking to reporters, Mr Trump said Russia had "violated" the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. The deal banned ground-launched medium-range missiles,