DHAKA: Former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra has fled abroad, ahead of a verdict in her trial over a rice subsidy scheme, reports BBC. Sources in her party said on Friday (August 25) that she made the decision to leave unexpectedly, shortly before she was due to appear at the Supreme

DHAKA: A Thai court said it would issue an arrest warrant for Yingluck Shinawatra, the former prime minister, after she failed to attend the reading of the verdict in a criminal case against her, reports NewYork Times. Her failure to show up in court led to speculation that she might

DHAKA: At least 59 insurgents and 12 members of the security forces were killed in Myanmar’s Rakhine state as militants staged a major coordinated attack on security forces. The fighting on Friday (August 25) marked a major escalation in a simmering conflict in the northwestern

DHAKA: A ferry carrying more than 100 people sunk in a bay in northeastern Brazil on Thursday (August 24), killing at least 22 people and leaving dozens more missing. Navy Lt Col Flavio Almeida told The Associated Press that the vessel went down on the Bay of All Saints in the city of

DHAKA: The US Navy intends to remove Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin as the commander of the US 7th Fleet, based in Yokosuka, Japan, reports CNN quoting a US official. This follows an incident Monday (August 21) in which the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant

DHAKA: India's top court has ruled the practice of instant divorce in Islam unconstitutional, marking a major victory for women's rights activists. In a 3-2 majority verdict, the court called the practice “un-Islamic”, reports the BBC. India is one of a handful of

Ten US Navy sailors are missing and five have been injured after a US destroyer and an oil tanker collided near Singapore, the Navy says. The guided missile destroyer USS John S McCain was sailing east of Singapore and preparing to stop in the port when the collision with the

DHAKA: White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is the latest top aide of President Donald Trump to leave his post. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that Friday (August 18) was his last day, reports BBC. His exit follows a review of his position by White House Chief

DHAKA: Spanish police say they have killed five people in the town of Cambrils to stop a second attempted van attack after an earlier one in Barcelona, reports BBC. The attackers were wearing explosive belts, police said. Thirteen people died and dozens were injured when a van

DHAKA: Spanish coastguard says it has rescued 600 migrants crossing from Morocco in a 24-hour period amid a spike in the number of migrant arrivals, reports BBC. The rescued migrants were in 15 vessels including toy paddleboats and a jet ski and included 35 children and a baby. The

DHAKA: At least 37 people were killed in a prison riot in southern Venezuela, reports BBC quoting prosecutors. Special interior ministry forces of Venezuela were sent in to regain control of the jail in Puerto Ayacucho, the capital of Amazonas state. Witnesses reported hearing shots

DHAKA: The President of Sierra Leone has appealed for international help as rescue workers recovered nearly 400 bodies from a mudslide on the outskirts of the capital Freetown. President Ernest Bai Koroma visited the site of the disaster, near the town of Regent, and said the country

DHAKA: At least 27 people were killed as three female suicide bombers have carried out an attack in north-eastern Nigeria, reports BBC. Besides, dozens were injured when the women blew themselves up outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno state - a stronghold of the Islamist

DHAKA: At least 18 people were killed and 10 others wounded after a number of assailants attacked a restaurant in Burkina Faso around 9:00 pm local time Sunday. The attack took place in Ouagadougou, the capital of the West African nation, the government confirmed in a statement.

DHAKA: At least eight soldiers and seven civilians were killed in a suicide bombing in the southwestern Quetta city of Pakistan, reports ABC News quoting an official and military. Kabeer Khan, an explosives expert who examined the site, said after collecting forensic evidence that it

DHAKA: Lilija Valis, a reputed poet from the Lower Mainland won the Vancouver Tagore Society's Poetry Contest 2017. On Friday (August 11), the awards ceremony of the contest took place at the 7th annual West Coast Tagore Festival 2017 at Richmond's grand Gateway Theatre. 

DHAKA: Recent satellite photos suggest North Korea could be preparing for fresh submarine-based ballistic missile tests, reports AFP quoting a military expert Friday (August 11). Joseph Bermudez, a specialist in North Korean defense and intelligence affairs, posted photographs on the

DHAKA: India's military has increased operational readiness along the eastern Indian border with China, reports Reuters. Neither side shows any sign of backing off from a face-off in a remote Himalayan region near their disputed frontier, said sources. Indian and Chinese troops

DHAKA: At least 30 children have died in a hospital of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur after 'disruption' of oxygen supply.  They were admitted to a hospital and were on oxygen support, reports suggest. The oxygen supply was allegedly disrupted since the company supplying oxygen

DHAKA: President Donald Trump says the US military is “locked and loaded” to deal with North Korea, ramping up the rhetorical brinkmanship. “Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another