DHAKA: Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Thursday accused Israel of perpetrating a Holocaust in Gaza and vowed to keep up fighting against Israel until the siege of Gaza is lifted. Speaking in an interview with Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, Mashaal said, ‘What Israel has done in the Gaza

DHAKA: Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan on Thursday called off talks with the government aimed at ending protests seeking the fall of the prime minister, which have destabilised the nuclear-armed nation. Khan and populist cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri have led followers protesting

DHAKA: Thieves broke into the official car of Belgian prime minister Elio di Rupo, stealing his laptop and personal documents. Prosecutors confirmed on Thursday, reports The Straits Times. The robber or robbers shattered the window of Di Rupo’s car in central Brussels on Monday

DHAKA: Pakistani officials have held first, ‘initial’ talks with two opposition groups whose supporters have been besieging the parliament for a second day demanding the prime minister resign over alleged election fraud. Cabinet minister Ahsan Iqbal says the two sides are trying to

DHAKA: An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza overnight killed three high-ranking members of Hamas' military wing, the Qassam Brigades, the militant group said Thursday.The three members of the Brigades' 15-member military council were killed in a bombing in Rafah in southern Gaza,

DHAKA: The president of the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, on Thursday called the actions of Islamic State (IS) militants ‘embarrassing’ to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the scale of the

DHAKA: At least 39 persons were killed and 10 have gone missing in floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall on Wednesday in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima.  A neighbor said he heard the boys' mother scream for help and rushed to help her, digging with his bare

DHAKA: Four workers were burnt alive in a fire at a scrap plastic godown in the Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu in India early Thursday.  Though fire fighters were able to rescue a few people including the watchman, the four victims, all workers, officials say were trapped in a small

DHAKA: Police in the Liberian capital have fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola quarantine imposed on their neighbourhood, as the death toll from the epidemic in West Africa hit 1,350. In the sprawling oceanfront West Point

DHAKA: Thailand's junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha has been named the new prime minister of the southeast Asian nation. Gen Prayuth, 60, was nominated on Thursday in a legislature hand-picked by the junta and made up of mostly military and police figures, reports BBC. The general was the

DHAKA: Thousands of armed Shia rebels in Yemen strengthened their positions in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday as they pressed their campaign to force the government to resign. Media correspondents witnessed, reports The Straits Times. Activists, known as Huthis or Ansarullah, used

DHAKA: The UN refugee agency said it had launched a huge operation Wednesday to bring desperately needed aid to half a million Iraqis driven from their homes by jihadist rebels. ‘It’s the largest single aid push we have mounted in more than a decade,’ UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres

DHAKA: Several thousand mourners on Wednesday joined the funeral procession for the wife and baby son of Hamas’s military commander Mohammed Deif, angrily demanding revenge against Israel. Firing Kalashnikovs into the air, they carried the bodies of 27-year-old Widad and her

DHAKA: Afghanistan on Wednesday ordered a New York Times correspondent to leave the country after he wrote an article saying government ministers and officials were threatening to seize power to end a stand-off over election results. The attorney general’s office said the article was

DHAKA: An Indian woman who has staged a 14-year hunger strike against rights abuses in the country’s northeast broke down in tears on Wednesday as she was finally released from a hospital jail. Irom Sharmila, known as the Iron Lady of Manipur for her unwavering and non-violent protest,

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments in Gaza after the collapse of the latest ceasefire saw the resumption of hostilities. The violence shattered a 10-day period of calm, the longest break from

DHAKA: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday issued notices to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri during the hearing of a petition filed by the Lahore High Court’s Multan Bar Association. The petitioner had

DHAKA: A senior Fatah official is quoted by the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat as saying that the Qatari government threatened to expel the Hamas political bureau chief, Khaled Mashaal, if the Palestinian Islamist group agreed to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal. Mashaal, who is based in Qatar,

DHAKA: Thousands of Pakistan’s anti-government protesters demanding resignation of prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday besieged the parliament building of Pakistan, trapping dozens of lawmakers inside. Canada-based cleric Tahirul Qadri asked his supporters to guard all entry and

DHAKA: Pakistan high commissioner to India on Wednesday justified his meetings with Kashmiri separatists in New Delhi notwithstanding India’s protestation, asserting that engagement with all stakeholders have been the ‘bottomline’ of Islamabad’s efforts to find a solution to the