DHAKA: British prime minister David Cameron is expected to win approval from parliament to join US-led air strikes on Islamic State militants in Iraq at a specially convened session on Friday.A coalition including the United States and Middle Eastern allies such as Saudi Arabia and

DHAKA: About 1,000 volunteers from the Asia-Pacific region have sought to join the Islamic State (IS) group.A senior military officer said on Thursday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Friday.Admiral Samuel Locklear, who oversees American forces across Asia as head of Pacific

DHAKA: A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Thursday and was felt in the state capital Anchorage.The US Geological Survey (USGS) and social media reported, The Straits Times publishes this report on Friday.No tsunami alert was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Alert Warning Centre

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi left for New York on Thursday on a six-day visit focused on boosting trade and resetting ties with the USA, the world’s largest economy.In a statement ahead of his departure, Modi said he was ‘confident that the visit will mark the start

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rohani told the United Nations on Thursday that the West had made ‘strategic blunders’ in the Middle East and that moderates in the region should take a central role in countering extremism.Just days after the United States extended air strikes

DHAKA: Iraq’s prime minister has said his country’s intelligence officials have uncovered a plot to attack underground rail systems in the US and Paris.Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said he was told foreign fighters among the Islamic State group in Iraq were plotting an

DHAKA: David Cameron, the UK prime minister, and Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, have expressed commitment for Iran and major powers to reach a long-term agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.The two leaders met at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday in the first such

DHAKA: Nigeria’s military claimed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was dead, saying troops had shot a lookalike who had been posing as the militant commander.Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade told reporters in Abuja that a heavily bearded Islamist fighter identified as Mohammed

DHAKA: Three people were killed when a tourist boat capsized on the River Paraguay during a heavy storm near the town of Carmelo Peralta in northern Paraguay.Police said 14 passengers managed to swim ashore, but 10 were still missing.The boat, Dream of the Pantanal, sank, about 600km

DHAKA: Cyprus has launched a rescue mission for 300 people, thought to be Syrian refugees, stranded off the island’s west coast.Most of the people on the small fishing boat are believed to be women and children, reports the BBC on Thursday.They were spotted 55 nautical miles (100km)

DHAKA: The US-led coalition against Islamic States (IS) has targeted oil refineries in Syria during a third night of air strikes against the militants.The raids - carried out by US, Saudi and UAE aircraft - killed 14 IS fighters and five civilians in eastern Syria, activists said that

First Bangla learning institution Red and Green Academy is going to start functioning in Malaysia from next October 18. This is the first Bangla learning institution in greater Malaysia. Under the supervision of CLC language center, the institution has been set up in a beautiful

DHAKA: The American held in North Korea, Matthew Miller, begins his six-year sentence of hard labor on Thursday, CNN reports.  A North Korean government official released a photo of Miller, taken on Wednesday. Dressed in a blue-gray prison garment with the number 107 and his head

DHAKA: The Indian satellite which entered orbit around Mars on Wednesday has begun work, taking pictures of the planet's surface, BBC reports. Space agency officials said a handful of images had been sent and were being processed before being released. The "Mangalyaan" robotic probe,

DHAKA: The United Nations Security Council demanded Wednesday that members nations make it harder for would-be terrorists to travel abroad to join extremist groups, or use their home-country passports to return and carry out attacks. The U.S.-drafted measure unanimously approved by the

RIADH: Eid-ul-Adha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated in Saudi Arab and Middle East countries on October 4.  Saudi authorities announced that the month of Zil Haj would begin on Thursday. Accordingly the Day of Arafat would fall on October 3. The

DHAKA: United States: president Barack Obama called on the world Wednesday to join the US-led coalition to defeat jihadists in Iraq and Syria. ‘The United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death,’ Obama told the UN General Assembly,

DHAKA: Give missed calls to women and cool your heels in jail in Indian state of Bihar! India’s CID inspector general (IG) (weaker section) Arvind Pandey on Tuesday issued a circular to all district superintendents of police (SPs) and government rail police (GRP) SPs asking them to

DHAKA: Polish anti-communist icon Lech Walesa said Poland should procure nuclear weapons as a safeguard against Russia, which it blames for stoking the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine. ‘Poland needs to stand up to Russia,’ the Nobel Peace laureate, who spearheaded Poland’s democracy

DHAKA: New air strikes have targeted Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, hitting areas close to the border with Turkey. Syrian activists reported strikes around the Kurdish town of Kobane, which has been besieged by IS fighters for several days. Witnesses saw two military aircraft