DHAKA: The US has hailed the announcement of a new government in Iraq ahead of a drive to organise an international coalition against Islamic State (IS). Secretary of State John Kerry said the US would stand with Iraqis in the fight against the group, which has seized large parts of the

DHAKA: Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine have released 1,200 prisoners, Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko has said.The releases followed Friday’s ceasefire deal, he said, which included an exchange of prisoners.He was speaking during a visit to the strategic south-eastern port city of

DHAKA: Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah insisted on Monday that he won the country’s disputed election, dimming hopes that a United Nations-supervised audit of votes could soon end the prolonged political crisis.Abdullah repeated claims that massive ballot-rigging had

DHAKA: A suicide car bomber has killed 12 people in an attack aimed at African Union (AU) troops in Somalia. An official has said, reports the BBC. A car laden with explosives was rammed into an AU convoy travelling south-west of the capital, Mogadishu, said local governor Adukadir

DHAKA: Hamas accused Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of trying to sabotage the unity deal between the two Palestinian factions.Media reported on Monday, says The Jerusalem Post.At a meeting with Egyptian media representatives in Cairo Saturday night, Abbas said his partnership

DHAKA: Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are ‘very pleased’ to announce that they are expecting their second child.Kensington Palace said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.The Prince’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was said to be ‘delighted’ at the news, which

DHAKA: Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was hospitalized and underwent a ‘successful’ prostate surgery on Monday morning.Local media reported, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘The Leader has undergone a prostate surgery this morning in a public hospital & with God’s grace it was

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to China represents an ‘important milestone’ in US-China relations, the top White House national security aide Susan Rice said on Monday at a meeting with officials in Beijing. Her trip comes at a turbulent time in US foreign policy

DHAKA: Ten people, including a child, were killed when a commercial plane crashed in Colombia's Amazon rainforest, officials have said.Search teams on Sunday recovered three bodies from the wreckage of the plane, said Gustavo Ortega, a Colombian rescue official.All of those on board -

DHAKA: Five days of heavy rains have left more than 335 dead in Pakistan and the Pakistan and Indian-administered areas of Kashmir, the region's worst flooding in more than five decades.By Sunday, flooding had submerged at least 450 villages and triggered landslides in Kashmir,

DHAKA: Pakistan's military says it has killed at least 910 suspected militants since launching an offensive in the tribal area of North Waziristan in June.Some 82 soldiers had died fighting the insurgents there and in raids across the country, the statement said.The army said the main

DHAKA: Japan's government has admitted that the flight paths of official aircraft used by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were posted online.The location of the planes and other flight data were published on the website Flightradar24, which shows live air traffic around the world, local

DHAKA: More than 200 people have been killed in flooding caused by heavy rain across large swathes of India and Pakistan, reports say.At least 110 people were killed by downpours in Pakistani-administered Kashmir and Punjab, officials said.About 100 people also died in

DHAKA: There has been fresh shelling near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine, raising fears that a recently agreed ceasefire may collapse.The truce held for much of Saturday but shelling in Mariupol, which killed one woman, was followed by the Donetsk airport blasts early on

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama is to set out his "game plan" against Islamic State militants in a speech on Wednesday. Mr Obama, who has been criticised for failing to outline a strategy, told NBC TV the US would degrade IS, shrink their territory and "defeat them".US jets bombed IS

DHAKA: A senior aide to Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday Kiev had reached agreement during the Nato summit in Wales on the provision of weapons and military advisers from five member states of the alliance.‘At the Nato summit agreements were reached on the provision

DHAKA: The United States needs to do more to help control West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak to stop it becoming a global crisis that could one day threaten Americans.US president Barack Obama said in an interview.Obama told NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ that the outbreak, which has

DHAKA: Iran president Hassan Rouhani re-entered Iran’s feverish debate on internet censorship and gender segregation Sunday, saying neither policy was in the country’s interest.Rouhani was elected last year having pledged to be more moderate on social issues after his

DHAKA: Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama criticised Russia’s president Vladimir Putin as ‘self-centred’ in a German newspaper interview Sunday, saying Putin seems to want to ‘rebuild the Berlin Wall’.‘His attitude is: I, I, I,’ the Dalai Lama said,

DHAKA: The British government is scrambling to respond to a lurch in the opinion polls towards a vote for Scottish independence this month by promising a range of new powers for Scotland if it chooses to stay within the United Kingdom. British finance minister George Osborne said on