DHAKA: More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years.The EU’s police intelligence unit says, reports the BBC.Europol said thousands of vulnerable minors had vanished after registering with state authorities.It warned of children

DHAKA: At least 45 people have been killed in three blasts near the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus.Syria state media say, reports the BBC.Scores of people were also reported to have been wounded.The shrine, which is highly revered by Shia Muslims, has

DHAKA: Iran’s supreme leader has awarded medals to navy commanders for capturing US sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters this month.Iran’s state media said on Sunday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had said Iran should remain wary of its arch-enemy

DHAKA: The New York Times has endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John Kasich in their bids to become their parties’ presidential candidates.Clinton, the liberal daily said in an editorial, is ‘one of the most broadly and deeply qualified candidates’ in modern history,

DHAKA: At least 33 refugees, including at least five children, have died after their boat sank in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross from Turkey to a Greek island, according to Turkish media.The refugees had set off from the district of Ayvacik in Canakkale province in an apparent bid

DHAKA: France intends to make another push at trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has warned that if its efforts failed, it would recognize a Palestinian State.‘France will engage in the coming weeks in the preparation of an international conference bringing together

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server contained more than a dozen emails deemed “top secret”- one of the highest levels of classification in the US government, the White House has said.Quoting State Department spokesman John Kirby, the BBC reported the documents were not

DHAKA: US and UK agencies reportedly hacked into Israeli drones and other aircraft as they gathered intelligence, in an operation dating from the late 1990s.It enabled Israel’s allies to monitor information acquired by its reconnaissance missions.The BBC reported the matter quoting Der

DHAKA: Donald Trump has been mocked by his Republican rivals at a televised debate in Iowa, after quitting the event in a row with Fox News.He decided to withdraw after the broadcaster refused to drop host Megyn Kelly, whom Trump accused of bias, reports the BBC.The debate began with his

DHAKA: The authorities in Sweden are making plans to expel as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers.Sweden interior minister Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years, reports the BBC.Quoting Swedish media, BBC reported that the

DHAKA: At least 55 Iraqi soldiers and pro-government tribal fighters have been killed in two attacks attributed to the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria group in the country’s western region, near the city of Ramadi.The first attack took place in the early hours of Tuesday when

DHAKA: More than a third of the world’s population, or 2.6 billion people, live in nations and territories gripped by repression, corruption and human rights abuses, with the worst being Syria, Tibet and Somalia.An advocacy group said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The year

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry will push China to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, as he meets with officials in Beijing.The visit follows North Korea’s claim that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb earlier this month.Kerry told reporters that Pyongyang was

DHAKA: Remote communities are not receiving the compensation they are entitled to from schemes designed to conserve tropical forests, a study suggests.People who depend on being able to harvest forest resources should receive payment under the schemes.But researchers say there is a

DHAKA: Donald Trump has said he will boycott the final Republican presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses.The maverick Republican frontrunner accused Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly, whom he has clashed with in the past, of being a ‘lightweight’.The unexpected move prompted

DHAKA: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of "encouraging terror".Referring to the Palestinians, Ban said it was human nature for oppressed people to react to occupation, reports the BBC.Speaking at the UN Security Council, Ban also

DHAKA: Pope Francis on Tuesday met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and asked Tehran to work with other Middle East states to promote peace and stop the spread of terrorism and arms trafficking in the region.A Vatican statement issued after the meeting spoke of the ‘relevant role Iran

DHAKA: Iran wants to become a major exporting nation following the lifting of international sanctions.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, adding that economic growth was crucial to defeating extremism in the Middle East, reports The Jerusalem Post.Rouhani is on a four-day

DHAKA: An Afghan policeman drugged and shot dead 10 of his comrades in the central province of Uruzgan.An official said, reports Al Jazeera.‘The policeman who had connections with armed militants first poisoned his comrades and than shot all of them during the night in a checkpoint,’

DHAKA: Peace talks between the warring parties in Syria, which were scheduled to open on Jan. 25, will instead begin in Geneva on Jan. 29 and last for six months.The United Nations’ Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has said, reports Hurriyet Daily News.De Mistura told reporters that the