DHAKA: Leaders of central and west African states will hold a summit on Wednesday to try to draw up a joint strategy against Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants.A statement from organizers said Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The April 8 summit will be the first of its kind since

DHAKA: Yemeni Shia rebels captured the provincial government headquarters in Aden on Sunday, pushing into new areas of the battleground southern city despite a Saudi-led air campaign.A local official said, reports The Straits Times.The rebel forces advanced during the night to reach the

DHAKA: The United Nations Security Council is considering Russia’s call for a pause in Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen.The council’s president, Dina Kawar, who is also Jordan’s UN ambassador, said members needed time to ‘reflect on the proposal’.The air strikes against Houthi

DHAKA: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s chief of staff and a former ambassador to the United States, who was also a senior member of Najib’s party, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash near the capital.The officials said on Sunday which reports the Jerusalem

DHAKA: Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, appeared in public ‘full of vitality’ for the first time in more than a year on Monday, greeting a delegation of Venezuelans.It was his first known appearance outside his home since Cuba in December agreed to normalize relations with the

DHAKA: The Red Cross has called for a 24-hour ceasefire in Yemen to bring in desperately needed medical supplies after fierce fighting.It says medical teams and rescuers must access Aden, a stronghold of those loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, or more civilians will die.Fighting

DHAKA: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday declared three days of national mourning during which the country’s flag shall fly at half-mast, following Thursday’s Garissa terror attack.Kenyatta said here that Kenya is in a profound state of mourning following the heinous attack

DHAKA: The Indian Navy evacuated 441 people, including a pregnant woman and children, from the Port of Aden in strife-torn Yemen in almost ‘war-like conditions’ on Saturday.“Absolute tough environment at Aden….Evacuation of stranded Indians were carried out in almost war-like

DHAKA: Books on Islam are selling out in France after deadly extremist attacks in the capital raised uncomfortable questions about Europe’s fastest-growing religion.A special magazine supplement focused on the Quran has flown off the shelves, and shops are selling more books on Islam

DHAKA: Kenyan police have arrested five men in connection with the university massacre of 148 people by Somalia’s Shebab Islamists, the interior ministry said Saturday, including suspected masterminds of the attack.‘Five people have been arrested, they are in custody and under

DHAKA: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is set to expand his council of ministers to include a key leader from the restive Kashmir region, sources said, as he looks to win the support of allies to push economic reforms through parliament.Mehbooba Mufti, daughter of Jammu and Kashmir

DHAKA: Loyalists of ousted Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi have pushed back Shia Houthi rebels in the southern city of Aden.Officials say, reports the BBC.The Hadi loyalists have been aided by air drops of arms and communications equipment from a Saudi-led coalition that is also

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama and Cuban counterpart Raul Castro will have an ‘interaction’ when they attend next week’s Summit of the Americas in Panama.A US official said Friday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Saturday.It will be the first between the two

DHAKA: Kenya is mourning 148 people killed in Thursday’s al-Shabab attack on Garissa university campus, amid questions over why warnings were ignored.Kenyan newspapers say there was intelligence information of an imminent attack on a school or university.Locals question why security was

DHAKA: The last time Frank Jordan spoke with his son, Louis Jordan, was fishing on a sailboat a few miles off the South Carolina coast.The next time he spoke with him, more than two months had passed and the younger Jordan was on a German-flagged container ship 200 miles from North

DHAKA:  Iran's president has vowed it will abide by the terms of the preliminary nuclear agreement it signed with six world powers, so long as they do too."The world must know that we do not intend to cheat," Hassan Rouhani said in a televised address to the nation, reports the BBC.But

DHAKA:  An Alabama man has been freed after spending nearly 30 years on death row.Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was convicted of murdering two restaurant managers in Birmingham in 1985, but was granted a new trial last year.Tests on bullets found at the crime scene could not be connected to a

DHAKA: The death toll from an explosion near a bus station in Gombe, northeast Nigeria, has risen to 10.A doctor and nurse at the hospital treating the injured confirmed the matter, reports the NDTV.“We received 10 dead bodies from the blast at the Bauchi motor park (bus station),” a

DHAKA: An inter-governmental agreement has been signed between Jordan and Russia last week in Jordanian capital Amman.The agreement envisages Russian cooperation in construction and operation of a nuclear power plant having two VVER units, each of 1000Mw capacity in the territory of

DHAKA: Belgian police have found the body of missing politician Steve Stevaert in a canal, hours after he learnt he was to face trial over a rape allegation.Stevaert, 60, is a former leader of the Flemish Social Democrat party, and also served as mayor of the city of Hasselt and as a