DHAKA: Ukraine announced on Thursday that it would begin withdrawing artillery from the front line with separatist rebels in the east, a move that amounts to recognition that a ceasefire meant to take effect on February 15 is holding at last.The pro-Russian rebels have already been

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has questioned the judgement of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over his stance on Iran’s nuclear programme.Netanyahu has criticised the US and others for ‘giving up’ on trying to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.The Israeli PM ‘may not be

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three day offensive.A monitor that tracks violence in Syria said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.The British-based Syrian

DHAKA: United States-trained army commandos on Thursday killed 14 militants belonging to the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in the first major battle this year on a remote southern island, as the Philippines stepped up efforts to rescue foreign hostages.The Abu Sayyaf is the smallest

DHAKA: For the first time since the end of World War-II, Germans will be able to buy copies of Adolf Hitler’s memoir Mein Kampf.The Jerusalem Post publishes this report.According to TIME magazine, a state-funded research center will be reissuing the book in December, when the Germany

DHAKA: More than 100 people have been killed in avalanches that buried homes in the northeastern Panjshir Valley of Afghanistan.Mohammad Aslam Syas, the deputy director of the Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority, said the avalanches buried homes across four northeast

DHAKA: Three journalists for TV station Al-Jazeera were arrested in Paris on Wednesday after flying a drone from a park on the edge of the city.“The first was piloting the drone, the second was filming and the third was watching,” a judicial source said.The arrests come after multiple

DHAKA: Soldiers from Chad killed 207 Boko Haram fighters in clashes near a Nigerian town close to the border with Cameroon.Chad’s army announced this in a statement that reports Aljazeera on Wednesday. One Chadian soldier was killed and another nine were wounded in Gambaru, the scene of

DHAKA: A gunman opened fire inside a small-town restaurant in eastern Czech Republic that killing eight people before he fatally shot himself.The gunman was a local man aged around 60, said Patrik Kuncar, mayor of the southeastern town of Uhersky Brod, reports the Times of India on

DHAKA: More than 100 Iraqi men, including nine boys, have been kidnapped by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters near Tikrit.Sheikh Anwar Assi al-Obeidi told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that 118 men and nine boys were originally captured three days ago from Rubaidha village,

DHAKA: At least 28 people are feared dead in an avalanche that buried some 60 homes in the northeastern Panjshir Valley, officials said on Wednesday.Most of the victims were in Panjshir province north of Kabul, where two days of heavy snow have blocked main roads, making it difficult for

DHAKA: Amnesty International has urged the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to give up their power of veto in cases where atrocities are being committed.In its annual report, the rights group said the global response to an array of catastrophes in 2014 had been

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama, exercising his veto power for the first time in five years, rejected on Tuesday a measure green-lighting the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.Obama's signature denying the Keystone bill kicks off what's expected to be a flurry of

DHAKA: Hundreds of climbers forced to abandon expeditions on Mount Everest last year are waiting to hear whether they will be allowed to try again in 2015.They say they are in limbo because of Nepalese government indecision, weeks before the new climbing season begins.Officials vowed

DHAKA: A suicide bomb attack has killed more than a dozen people at a crowded bus station in Potiskum, north-eastern Nigeria.A witness told the BBC that a bomber tried to board a bus as transport officials were loading it.Hospital sources say 13 corpses have been taken to the town's

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in north-eastern Syria.A monitor that tracks violence in the country said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

DHAKA: New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key has announced plans to send 143 non-combat troops to Iraq to help the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants.Key told parliament most personnel would be based with Australian troops in Taji Camp north of Baghdad.He said New Zealand had

DHAKA: At least five drones were spotted flying over central Paris landmarks during the night and the operators have not been apprehended.A security source said Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The first drone sighting was near the US embassy in the French capital. The Eiffel Tower and

DHAKA: South Korea and the US have announced that their annual military drills will begin on 2 March - a move that will anger Pyongyang.The exercises, called Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, always generate tension on the Korean peninsula.Seoul and Washington call the drills defensive in

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has said war with neighboring Ukraine is ‘unlikely’, in an interview for Russian television.Putin also stressed his support for the recent Minsk ceasefire deal as the best way to stabilise eastern Ukraine.Ukraine says Russian troops have been