DHAKA: A suicide car bombing Sunday in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed at least 15 people, Somali police told CNN. Police Capt. Osman Mohamed said the attack was an assassination attempt against the new Somali military chief, Ahmed Mohamed Irfid. The attack happened on a busy

DHAKA: The US military has ordered a navy strike group to move towards the Korean peninsula, amid growing concerns about North Korea's missile programme. The Carl Vinson Strike Group comprises an aircraft carrier and other warships, reports the BBC. US Pacific Command described

DHAKA: Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 40 people, officials say. In Alexandria, an explosion outside St Mark's Coptic church killed 13 people. Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Church, had been attending Mass inside and was

Police in Sweden have arrested two men after a lorry crashed into a Stockholm department store on Friday, killing at least four people. The first man to be arrested is being held on suspicion of committing a terrorist crime by murder, reports the BBC. He was detained on Friday

DHAKA: Three people have been killed after a vehicle was driven onto the busiest street in the center of Stockholm, according to the Swedish Security Police. Parliament and the Stockholm subway are in lockdown, a Swedish Security Police spokesman told Swedish public radio. “Some

US President Donald Trump has welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to his Florida resort for their first summit. Trump said the two men had “developed a friendship” as they sat for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago retreat. The American leader is expected to press his counterpart for

The US has carried out a missile attack against an air base in Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. The Pentagon said at 4:40 Syrian time (01:40 GMT), 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean, reports

DHAKA: Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports of abuses. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the Nobel peace prize winner acknowledged problems in Rakhine state, where most Rohingya people live.

DHAKA: ISIS killed 33 people execution-style in eastern Syria on Wednesday, according to a monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the terror organization carried out the mass killing in the the al-Mayadin desert near the strategic city of Deir Ezzor on

DHAKA: At least six people have been killed in a suspected suicide attack targeting census workers and their security escort in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Four of the dead were soldiers. Twenty-two others were wounded, officials say, reports the BBC. A team carrying out

DHAKA: At least 58 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in north-western Syria, a monitoring group says. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that strikes on Khan Sheikhoun by Syrian government or Russian jets had

DHAKA: The man suspected of killing 14 people by bombing a St Petersburg train is a native of Kyrgyzstan who obtained Russian citizenship, the Central Asian country's security service says. Forty-nine people were injured in the explosion between two underground stations on Monday

US President Donald Trump has said the United States will “solve” the nuclear threat from North Korea, with or without China’s help. “If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you,” he said in an interview with UK newspaper the Financial

At least 254 are dead and around 400 more injured after torrential rains Friday night caused three rivers surrounding Mocoa, in Putumayo province of Colombia, to overflow -- sending a torrent of mud surging through the city. The Red Cross reports 234 deaths and said that 158 people

DHAKA: An elevated section of northbound Interstate 85, a major north-south artery for the Southeast, collapsed Thursday evening in Atlanta after a massive fire, officials said. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said the collapse is not related to terrorism, reports the CNN. “We've

DHAKA: At least 22 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in a blast outside a mosque in northwest Pakistan. The explosion happened in the city of Parachinar, a mainly Shia Muslim area on the Afghan border, reports the BBC. Reports say a car packed with explosives was left

Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been arrested and taken into custody over a corruption scandal that led to her dismissal. Quoting a report by Yonhap, BBC says the 65-year-old was driven to a detention center south of Seoul after a court approved her arrest. She is

DHAKA: Ivanka Trump is changing course and will become a government employee in the coming days, a White House official told CNN Wednesday. President Donald Trump's eldest daughter will be an unpaid employee working in the West Wing, reports the CNN. “I have heard the concerns

DHAKA: Thirteen people traveling in a minibus bringing senior churchgoers back from a retreat were killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in the Texas Hill Country, officials said. Two people were injured, including the driver of a large white pickup that collided with the bus, said

DHAKA: The UK government has formally served divorce papers on the European Union, signaling the beginning of the end of a relationship that has endured for 44 years. Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, confirmed that the UK had triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, beginning