DHAKA: A suicide bomber has attacked a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, causing casualties, state media say.One witness told Reuters news agency there was a huge explosion at the Imam Ali mosque in the village of al-Qadeeh, reports BBC.He estimated there were at least 30

DHAKA: A mass funeral has taken place in the Colombian town of Salgar for victims of a devastating mudslide on Monday.Burials were held for 33 of the 84 people whose bodies have been recovered. Several local people are still missing, reports the BBC.Thousands of people gathered in the

DHAKA: Myanmar’s navy rescued 208 fortune seekers from the shore on Thursday.They has carried out its first rescue of a migrant boat as it faced mounting international pressure to tackle a regional migration crisis.“A navy ship found two boats... on May 21 while on patrol,” Tin

DHAKA: A grand jury has charged all six police officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray at Baltimore in the U.S. state of Maryland, reports BBC Friday.State Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby announced the revised charges on Thursday, but the most serious charges - including second-degree

DHAKA: Islamic State militants have seized the last Syrian government-controlled border crossing between Syria and Iraq, a Syrian activist group says, reports BBC.Government forces withdrew from al-Tanf - known as al-Waleed in Iraq - crossing as IS advanced, the Syrian Observatory for

DHAKA: Air strikes killed at least 15 suspected militants in Pakistan’s north-western Shawal Valley on Thursday, intelligence officials said, a week after security forces moved in on Taliban strongholds there.The deeply forested ravines of the valley are a key smuggling route between

DHAKA: The world’s largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late on Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade.The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) announced on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.‘Last night, protons collided in the Large

DHAKA: David Cameron says he will not give up on his immigration target despite net migration to the UK reaching its highest level for a decade.Net migration rose by 50% to 318,000 last year - with sharp increases from inside and outside the EU.A total of 641,000 people moved to the UK in

DHAKA: Myanmar was braced on Thursday for its first talks with US and southeast Asian envoys on the migrant exodus from its shores, as Malaysia ordered search and rescue missions for thousands of boatpeople stranded at sea.Foreign ministers Anifah Aman of Malaysia and Retno Marsudi of

DHAKA: Islamic State militants have taken near complete control of the Syrian city of Palmyra, home to some of the world’s most magnificent ancient ruins.There are fears that the militants will destroy the ruins, which UNESCO has designated a World Heritage site.Government troops have

DHAKA: A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific on Thursday.The US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued, reports the Times of India.The quake hit at a depth of 19 kilometres (11 miles), some 184 kilometres from Lata and 487 kilometres

DHAKA: German rail travel was paralyzed on Wednesday by an open-ended strike, the ninth stoppage in less than a year, as the government prepares a law to stop small unions from bringing entire sectors to a standstill.Railways operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) said it cancelled two-thirds of

DHAKA: Burundian security forces fired shots and tear gas in battles with protesters on Wednesday, the latest violence in weeks of anti-government demonstrations, as the presidency delayed elections by over a week.In the capital Bujumbura, hundreds defied government orders to call off

DHAKA: Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition carried out the most sustained bombardment of Yemen’s capital Sana’a in nearly two months of air strikes on Tuesday night, residents of the city said, hitting army bases and weapons depots.It was the first time air strikes continued from

DHAKA: Malaysia and Indonesia on Wednesday agreed to provide shelter to migrants stuck at sea.This development comes after foreign ministers from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand held talks on Wednesday morning on human trafficking, reports The Straits Times.The talks involved

DHAKA: Iraq's government has called for volunteers to fight against Islamic State (IS) and help retake the city of Ramadi, reports BBC.A cabinet statement said a voluntary recruitment drive was necessary to fill shortages in squads in the west of Anbar province.Thousands have fled Ramadi

DHAKA: Mother Teresa of Kolkata’s elevation to sainthood has been set for September 2016.A top Catholic cleric said, reports The Straits Times.Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella was quoted by Italian media Tuesday as telling municipal officials in Rome that Pope Francis would canonize the

DHAKA: A rebel coalition including Al-Qaeda’s local affiliate seized the Syrian regime’s largest remaining military base in northwest Idlib province on Tuesday, after an explosion and heavy clashes.A monitor said, reports The Straits Times.‘All regime forces have withdrawn from

DHAKA: Indonesia said Tuesday a migrant boat crisis was a problem for all of southeast Asia ahead of key regional talks, as Jakarta and other countries came under more pressure to let the boat-people land.Nearly 3,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants have made it to shore in Indonesia,

DHAKA: Over 1,800 people had been killed and more than 500,000 displaced as a result of the conflict raging in Yemen since late March.The United Nations (UN) said Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.As of May 15, 1,849 people had been killed and 7,394 had been injured, the UN humanitarian